Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Switching from gasoline to electricity can greatly reduce heat-trapping emissions Transportation is the largest source of heat-trapping emissions in the US and the passenger vehicles many of us drive are responsible for the majority of transportation global warming emissions. A Rivian R1S costs about $3.70

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

Those high temperatures are part of a global period of extraordinarily warm temperatures—2023 was the hottest year on record, and global temperatures have continued to run about 1°C (nearly 2°F) above the historical average so far this year. Me: What about consequences to public health?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

To learn more about who in the state is exposed to this harmful exhaust, UCS partnered with The Greenlining Institute to analyze the location of these vehicles and their emissions. Provide transportation solutions that go beyond private passenger vehicles. A cleaner, safer transportation future for all Californians is possible.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

And, even more importantly, how are we going to ensure that this rapid EV transition is equitable , promoting locally appropriate transportation options, avoiding higher costs for lower-income and underserved communities, and increasing mobility overall? . You can read more about it here and look for updates throughout 2023 as we get started.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

million in 2023 Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant funding to municipalities and businesses to improve air quality in communities through cleaner fuel transportation infrastructure. Eight projects are located in or serve Environmental Justice Areas. Eight projects are located in or serve Environmental Justice Areas.

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

The AMOC however moves the bulk of the heat into the northern Atlantic so is highly relevant for climate, because the southward return flow is very cold and deep (heat transport is the flow multiplied by the temperature difference between northward and southward flow). Data locations are shown in the inset map, from Caesar et al.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

Economic advancements The most obvious contribution of such a cross-border transportation of CO 2 for overseas storage lies in its economic aspects. More specifically, the lack of operational data for CO 2 shipping has been considered to impose conservative limitations on its cross-border transportation and storage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

We are about to enter the era of the electric truck. Communities that have been suffering from disproportionate exposure to transportation pollution, including diesel truck exhaust, have waited far too long to get relief. Sure, there are already a few thousand electric trucks and buses on US roads already.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody’s health stands to gain from reducing local air pollution from tailpipes: communities located near roads, families getting into a car in their garage, children boarding a school bus, and anybody in the vicinity of an idling vehicle. Rural drivers face unique transportation challenges, which I discussed in a previous blogpost.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2023

How cities go about this will depend heavily on local context–while some may venture into direct ownership and management of charging in public lots and on residential streets, others may leave the rollout entirely to private investment by residents and employers. Californians have bought over 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Producing, transporting and burning gas despoil waterways, compromising wildlife ecosystems and drinking water supplies. We know this infrastructure is disproportionately located in communities of color and low-income communities, which means they bear the brunt of these harmful air, water, and land impacts.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Part of the Driving PA Forward Program , this grant was developed under the Shapiro administration, to improve air quality statewide by driving transformation from older, high-polluting diesel engines to clean transportation technologies. Click Here for a list of grants awarded.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Winter is once again here, bringing great festivities and respite via holidays, but also great worries to energy regulators, grid operators, and communities about dangerous winter storms that can spread across large parts of the United States and negatively affect electric grid reliability. Source: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

Female turtles view the sides of roads as prime nesting locations and often put themselves and hatchlings in close proximity to cars and danger. The OTCC has volunteers that help transport injured turtles to the Centre and also help release rehabilitated turtles back into the wild.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Eligible sites must have a home (permanent residence) or business located within 50 feet of a stream, and have experienced severe streambank damage. Repairing, rebuilding, or maintaining public or private transportation facilities is not eligible. Public utilities are eligible if the streambank damage is within 10’ of the utility.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For oceans, the satellite will track small-scale currents and eddies that transport nutrients, salt, and heat. Last week, the United Nations held a special summit to highlight the importance of groundwater, the source for about half of the world’s drinking water. The worrisome section of pipe is located near the Bad River.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2023

I’ve blogged in detail about this effort, focusing mainly on the severe analytical shortcomings in the Postal Service’s 2021 study of air quality, climate, economic, and technological aspects of the new fleet of vehicles, known as the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

About half of all sterile medical equipment in the US is sterilized with EtO. You can see where these facilities are located and learn more about the impacted communities here. Many companies transport sterilized medical equipment to warehouses that are not subject to Clean Air Act regulations.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2022

In Germany, transport authorities are monitoring the Rhine River as water levels drop to critical levels. The hardest-hit counties—Clay, Knott, Letcher, and Perry—have a median annual income that’s about 40 percent lower than the national average. About a quarter of residents live below the poverty line.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Experimenters can move these pockets back and forth at will, thereby transporting the particles to specific locations in space. As the number of particles in the same location increases, they start to interact with each other. “To We only needed about one day to achieve this.”. Ramsey phase tracking.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

About The Safety Division During all investigations by the Safety Division, data is gathered and analyzed – exploring the cause and circumstances surrounding an incident, along with whether there are any violations of state or federal pipeline safety regulations. Click Here for the complete announcement.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 10, 2023

And writing about building blocks puts a vision of Lego in my mind. harbors located on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts. This includes remote locations such as Antarctica, demonstrating the ability for these small particles to be transported far distances by wind, wave action and ocean currents.

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Ocean Clean Water Act Regulations Conservation 90

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2024

This park’s location within walking distance of downtown Easton is used for outdoor recreation and active transportation. Both the Upper and Lower French Creek Water Trail maps will be updated and reprinted to show access locations and amenities along the 78-mile Water Trail. Questions about the Water Trails?

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It’s finally ending local mandates that all new housing and infill projects must include car storage, even if they’re located within half-mile of transit. AB 2097 (Friedman) builds on work dating back to 2011 (I blogged about then-Assm. The evidence is clear.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2023

Crucially, Uganda’s glaciers are disappearing faster than scientists can glean information from them about the country and continent’s climate past and future. The Lead Vanuatu, the Pacific island nation of about 320,000 people, is pursuing climate justice in the world’s highest international courts, the New York Times reports.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But this still leaves questions about the demand-side market. Hydrogen can be used for medium-to-long-term energy storage, heat and power generation, and transportation. As promised previously, let’s begin by talking about NOx. about 500º F hotter than natural gas. In the abstract, the use-cases for hydrogen are broad.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 19, 2022

Improving rail transit delivery is critical for meeting climate and equity goals, given that the transportation sector contributes the majority of the state’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Therese McMillan , Executive Director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. complex facades), particularly after the design stage.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Even today, the existing Emerald incinerator is one of the biggest industrial sources of nitrogen dioxide emissions in Brampton—a community already overburdened with air pollution from industrial and transportation emissions. Trucking in over four times more garbage to burn will certainly not make things better.” Wallis added. “It

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

They additionally experience wildfire smoke routinely, being bounded on the east by the Sierra Nevada, where wildfires occur every year, and they often breathe the smoke blown from fires from coastal locations to the west as well.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In our series on the increasing unreliability of fossil gas , my colleagues at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have laid out why growing concerns about grid reliability should not be met simply by increasing the number of gas plants on the grid. I talked to some of them about how the TVA’s gas plants have affected their lives.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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Renewable + Law

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Projects located in California, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Texas, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey are included in the seven hydrogen hub proposals selected to enter negotiations to receive H2Hubs funding. The project is eligible for up to $1.2

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Frontiers

APRIL 26, 2022

A crewed mission to Mars will require transporting equipment for creating electricity to power life support systems. Researchers here show that a photovoltaic system using compressed hydrogen energy storage can compete with nuclear energy across about 50% of the Red Planet. tons versus about 9.5 Weighing the options.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Among this fleet of trucks and buses, tractor trucks are, by far, the most significant polluters – although just about 1 in 10 medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, they’re responsible for around half of all emissions from the state’s fleet. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles. The rule would also reduce NOx and PM2.5

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

WPCAMR, a nonprofit dedicated to reclaiming lands and streams polluted by historic coal mining in Western Pennsylvania, was awarded the WCAP grant to help fund the Victor #10 Abandoned Mine Discharge Pipeline Construction Project, located in West Carroll Township, Cambria County. Click Here for the complete announcement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

The amount of publicly available details about what happened differs by location. North Carolina and Tennessee experienced the most customer outages, but Duke Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority —the main power providers for those respective states—have apparently provided only limited information about what happened thus far.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2023

On May 4, the Department of Transportation announced a team of students from Lenape Technical School in Ford City, Armstrong County, has been selected as the statewide winner for the 2022-2023 Innovations Challenge. The team’s presentation included an example location, cost breakdown, and a plan for adding EV charging options.

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