Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Had the court ruled fully in favor of the EPA— or not taken the case at all —a much more meaningful dent in power plant carbon emissions would be within reach, while also delivering much greater reductions in other dangerous co-pollutants from burning fossil fuels such as particulate matter, mercury, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 4, 2023

Trucks and buses on California’s roads and highways are responsible for the majority of lung-damaging fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions, and a sizable amount of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions as well. Why did the state create this truck rule?

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

By 2050, the climate benefits from compliance with ACF will translate to a reduction of 146,000 tons of nitrogen oxides, nearly 7,000 tons of fine particulate matter, and 327 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. The ACF is estimated to significantly reduce pollution from the statewide commercial truck and bus fleet.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

Million May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation DEP Sets June 28 Hearing On Response To PFOA/PFOS Contamination Around University Park Airport, Centre County EPA Announces Brownfields Cleanup, Assessment Funding; 8 Grants In PA Totaling $7.3

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2022

If only the 15 states that follow the current California ZEV standards adopt California’s Advanced Clean Trucks Rule, only about 1 in 8 trucks sold in 2030 would be electric. Electric trucks, on the other hand, emit no tailpipe emissions.

2030

Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

In addition to direct economic benefits beginning around 2030, the transportation decarbonization policies could also lead to health, equity and environmental justice, and workforce and labor benefits. Particulate matter harms lungs and hearts, while nitrogen oxide compounds contribute to ozone pollution and other health impacts.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

UCS found that the IRA more than doubles the current rate of annual US emissions reductions to roughly 3 percent through 2030. But to lower emissions by 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, the United States would have to cut emissions by more than 5 percent a year. How is that going to happen?

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 was enacted, the plants have emitted more than 29 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 28,000 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 16,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SOx). The subsidies were codified and extended to 2030 when H.B. billion in subsidies for the two coal plants by 2030, and maybe more. Mike DeWine.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state. By this measure, battery costs for the largest trucks, like sleeper cab tractor trucks, will be under $100/kWh around the time the proposed language would bring sleeper cabs into the program in 2030.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

leader in cleaning up the light duty fleet quietly released its own proposal in August: the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed to improve fuel economy of passenger cars and trucks steadily from 2027 through 2032 and heavy-duty pickups and vans from 2030 to 2035.

Electricity

Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

The Threats of Gas Appliances Every day, domestic gas-powered building appliances emit 65 tons of toxic and highly reactive gases called nitrogen oxides (NOx) per day. The Rule and Other Potential Developments By adopting this rule, BAAQMD is exercising its legal authority under both federal and state law to regulate nitrogen oxides.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Air Resources Board estimates that between 2026 and 2040, the ACCII rules will eliminate 69,569 tons of nitrogen oxides and 4,469 tons of particulate matter (PM2.5) , leading to over 1,200 fewer cardiopulmonary deaths due to air pollution. . Volkswagen stated its expectation that 50% of US sales will be all-electric by 2030.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2024

The overall combination of reductions in particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and other air pollutants are expected to deliver $13 billion in annual health benefits. This is a common sense step that relies on affordable, proven technology already in use in millions of gasoline vehicles outside the US.

2027

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) and toxics like mercury add further to the health and environmental burden of fossil fuels. Particulate matter (PM2.5) is a particularly nasty pollutant, contributing to a range of cardiovascular and lung diseases and even causing death.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

We’ve made progress The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) contribute significantly towards the US’s 2030 climate targets (50-52% reduction of global warming emissions below 2005 levels) and exceed these targets by 2035. Since vehicles are the largest sources of PM2.5

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

million commercial trucks on California roads, and although they make up just seven percent of vehicles on the road, these trucks are responsible for more than one-quarter of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, more than 60 percent of smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) and more than 55 percent of lung- and heart-harming fine particulate (PM2.5)

Nitrogen Oxides

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

And now, according to the IESO, emissions from electricity will rise to about 12 MT in 2030, and to over 18 MT in 2040. . This means that greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s gas plants will increase by 375 per cent by 2030 and by more than 600 per cent by 2040, compared to the 2017 level!

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. degrees Celsius, coal power should be entirely phased out by 2030.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Contrast that with some of the wider benefits of the clean energy transition, such as phasing out coal generation by 2030, which are realized by everyone including historically disenfranchised groups.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

MARCH 21, 2023

million purchase, coordinated with Waucedah Township, is part of the organization’s larger goal of conserving 30 percent of Michigan’s land, water, and biodiversity by 2030. The grant is funded by a $64 million settlement the state received from Volkswagen after the car company was found to be cheating its emissions tests.

2023

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

His office says the buses will help clean up the air and improve the health of Londoners by reducing the level of harmful nitrogen oxide in the air. This move is the latest effort by Mayor Khan to clean up London ’s toxic air which frequently breaches legal limits.

Nitrogen Oxides

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. If adopted in Pennsylvania, benefits would include: -- $1.8 These gains include $1.3 billion by 2050.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New UCS study shows how we can accelerate US clean energy ambition An interdisciplinary team of UCS experts set out to explore how the US can meet its goals to cut heat-trapping emissions 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions no later than 2050. Coal is phased out of the power sector by 2030.

Fossil Fuels

Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

As I have spent some sleepless nights since the latest IPCC report on how Mankind has to halve its carbon emissions by 2030. A 2010 US study showed that stopping burning coal could be done by 2030 with renewables and energy efficiency. A moral imperative.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Therefore, we pushed EPA not to ease up after 2030 as it has, with what we’ve called Alt 1+. Unsurprisingly, automakers advocated for weakening the proposed greenhouse gas standards—Ford asked for Alt 3, while other automakers pushed for a combination of the slower pace of Alt 3 and a weakened stringency like Alt 2.

2026

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Despite the growing share of electric vehicles projected by this rule, 40 percent of vehicles sold in 2030 even under this proposal will still be powered by gasoline. One critical point that was perhaps missed in the initial coverage of the proposal is how much more efficient the remaining gasoline-powered vehicles are expected to be.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

The report also found that 173 coal plants are scheduled to close by 2030—54 percent of the fleet—and another 55 by 2040. For example, the EPA is proposing to require that any coal-fired power plant intending to operate past 2039 must limit its carbon emissions beginning in 2030 based on a facility using 90 percent carbon capture.

Fossil Fuels

ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

degree limit of the Paris Agreement is a pipe dream unless emissions peak in the coming three years and fall by almost half from 2019 levels by 2030, the scientists said. Currently, China’s emissions are slated to grow until sometime “before 2030.” bln roadmap to meet 2030 climate targets – Reuters. The EU, the U.S. and the U.K.

2022