Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

Decades of government vehicle standards to improve vehicle efficiency and cut down on tailpipe pollution have saved car and truck drivers trillions of dollars at the pump, saved countless lives from reduced exposure to toxic air pollution , and avoided the extraction and burning of billions of barrels of oil.

Nitrogen Oxides

Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2025

Data Center Air Pollution Wherever a data center gets its power, it is going to need backup power to deal with outages. In areas where air quality does not meet federal standards (non-attainment areas), the threshold for new source review is 100 tons per year, and it may be necessary to purchase Pollution Reduction Credits.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

Advocates campaigned for cleaner vehicles to cut pollution, and California led a lawsuit by 16 states seeking to electrify the mail trucks. C alifornia’s intervention “played a big part in stopping USPS from committing to decades of air pollution around the nation,” Liane Randolph, head of the state’s Air Resources Board, said.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

UCS/S&P Global Mobility 2024 This accelerated transition to cleaner on-road freight is vital to reduce harmful air pollution generated from trucks, given that theyre the largest source of ozone-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) pollution in the nation and the largest source of lung-damaging fine particulates from vehicles on the road.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Diversified Production LLC - Compressor Station/Water Storage Facility On State Game Lands: DEP invites comments on an State Only Air Quality Permit covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Gaskill Twp., Jefferson County. ( Greene County.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

6 Due To Trade War -- Marcellus Drilling News: EIA Annual Energy Outlook: Oil And Natural Gas Demand Peaks In 2027 and 2032 [ PDF of Article ] [Posted: April 26, 2025] PA Environment Digest Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 11.4%

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 17, 2024

year the vehicle is purchased): 2023, 2027, 2030, 2035. The bars to the right of the graph represent the average grid used by model year 2023, 2027, 2030, and 2035 vehicles, respectively. In addition to the vehicle characteristics, we also considered different energy futures. How to calculate the impact of a truck?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2940 ) Air Quality Permits - Issued -- Coterra Energy, Inc. Shale Gas Well Pad/Pipeline Pigging Operation: DEP issued a GP-5A Air Quality General Permit covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Bridgewater Twp., [Correction to notice previously published March 1, 2025]. (

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2025

Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- PennDOT Opens 3 New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations In Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia Counties -- WHYY: These Philly-Area Doulas Want Parents To Think About Their Exposures To Heat, Air Pollution, Lead, Other Toxins -- Williamsport Sun: Signs Opposing Solar-Chicken Farm In Muncy Creek Twp.

Earth Day

Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2025

billion in funding for CPB for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 — money already allocated. A district court judge in the Central District of California found the rule was not preempted by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), even though it effectively prohibits gas appliances, because the rule applies to air pollution.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2025

. - Daleville Compressor Station : DEP invites comments on the renewal of an Air Quality General Permit for the facility located in Londonderry Twp., PA Bulletin, page 5191 ) -- JKLM Energy, LLC - Woods Water Withdrawal Pump Site: DEP issued a GP-11 Air Quality General Permit for two water pumps at the facility located in Tioga Twp.,

Nuclear Power

NRDC

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Renewable Rikers coalition tells DEC that Rikers power plant permit conflicts with both city law mandating closure of Rikers jails by 2027 and state climate law

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 1, 2022

This truck proposal is just more of the same: when considering credits, Option 1 gives away 12 percent of the first step of regulations (2027-2030), causing even further delayed action in an industry that hasn’t seen new tailpipe NO X regulation in over 20 years.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

The national electricity plan projected that renewables will exceed coal in 2027. Much of the shift may have been due to recognition that renewables would provide more energy independence and would help get India’s crippling urban air pollution under control. Natural gas, oil, and nuclear are minor players.

2030

E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final, revised National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives (NECIs) for fiscal years 2024-2027, seven months after soliciting public comment on its proposals. See Public Comment on EPA’s National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives for Fiscal Years 2024–2027 , 88 Fed.

2027

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2024

EPA’s final rule could result in a similar level of adoption in the rest of the country, if manufacturers primarily use electric trucks to comply with the rule, with an additional 160,000 electric Class 3-5 trucks deployed from 2027-2032 thanks to the added pressure of EPA’s rule.

2027

Law Columbia

AUGUST 1, 2024

Briefly, by way of background, CPRG is a nearly $5 billion emissions reduction program intended to catalyze planning for and implementation of ambitious projects to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other harmful air pollution.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The National Association of Manufacturers recently claimed that new regulations to cut air pollution would “threaten $162.4 The National Association of Manufacturers recently claimed that new regulations to cut air pollution would “threaten $162.4 billion to $197.4 billion to $197.4

Cooling

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Under these special statutory provisions governing CARBs expedited CEQA review of regulations setting air pollution emissions limits, the analysis must address the reasonably foreseeable methods of compliance with the Regulation (Pub.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) These trucks regularly operate along industrial corridors – areas that often flank communities disproportionately impacted by air pollution.

Electricity

Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

Gas stoves are a significant driver of childhood asthma , leaking methane even while turned off and releasing as much nationwide climate pollution each year as 500,000 cars. Furnaces and water heaters are even bigger polluters, with major contributions to outdoor air pollution in the Bay Area. Richard Trumka Jr.,

Nitrogen Oxides

Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

More details regarding funding applications will need to be made available by the EPA, and funding is set to remain available until September 30, 2027. States, Indian tribes, and air pollution control agencies are also eligible for funding. Resiliency, adaptation & local air pollution. Second, $11.97

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2024

They will go into effect in model year 2027 and steadily increase in stringency through model year 2032. Here’s what you need to know: Climate Transportation is the largest source of climate emissions in the US (29 percent) and passenger cars and trucks account for the majority of this pollution. Far from it.

2027

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I recently wrote a (very wonky) paper about how giving credits to technology deployment in advance of the beginning of the rule in 2027 could pose a serious problem to the long-term effectiveness on the rule at driving the cleanest technology to market, but it’s worth summarizing here. EPA has proposed three different early credit programs.

Regulations

Legal Planet

JUNE 5, 2025

These proposals are key components of the South Coast Air Quality Management Districts strategy to reduce the emission of harmful nitrogen oxides (NOx) and fine particles, which help cause our infamous smog. For gas appliances sold in excess of sales targets, manufacturers would pay surcharges.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Beginning in 2027, the ACF would require all new medium- and heavy-duty vehicles purchased by public agencies to be emissions-free, including large work trucks and vans, street sweepers, vacuum trucks, and other similar vehicles. Public Agency Fleets.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Advanced Clean Trucks standard modeled in the report would require manufacturers, beginning in 2027, to increase their zero-emission truck sales to between 30-50 percent by 2030 and 40-75 percent by 2035. The report was prepared by ERM and commissioned by NRDC and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed new emissions and fuel economy standards (respectively) for model year 2027-2032 passenger cars and light trucks (sedans, utility vehicles, pickups, etc.).

2026

ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Rob Portman (R-OH) reauthorizes the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Act through FY 2027 and authorizes $20 million a year for the program. EPA says state agencies’ regulation of air pollution may violate civil rights of Black residents – Nola.com. Another amendment from Sen.

2022

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

A couple other issues came up: The preemption waiver challenged in Ohio is a reinstatement of a waiver initially granted in 2013, but rescinded in 2019 by the Trump Administration’s rollback of air pollution protections. Thanks again, Dan. Download as PDF

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 9, 2025

All EV credits would end at the start of 2027. But even if it does meet the requirements, the credit would go away completely in 2027, giving Rivian a very short window to offer the incentive to buyers. EV deployment could be slowed, increasing air pollution and climate changing emissions.

2026

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We heard this all in full effect at recent meeting s of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, where some in industry advocated for delays all the way out to 2027. Industry’s push to delay state clean truck regulations until 2027 would result in up to $3.5

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