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.

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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