PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

The webinar provides a unique opportunity for advocacy groups, legislators, government regulators, oil and gas industry workers, and residents and community members across the country to learn about this issue, the health concerns and the latest science.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The National Aeronautics and Atmospheric Administration offered to fly an airplane equipped with the world’s most sophisticated air samplers over Houston to monitor air pollution. Meanwhile, residents and rescue crews continued to feel sick, despite assurances from officials that the air pollution posed no health threat.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The Alaska Supreme Court suggested Alaskans might have a right to atmosphere, but declined to provide a remedy. Atmospheric public trust plaintiffs are running out of options. The Alaska Supreme Court denies relief, but signals that Alaskans may have a public trust right to preservation of the atmosphere. air pollution. ,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Workers in facilities that produce and use EtO as well as people living near facilities that release it into the atmosphere are at risk of unsafe exposures even when the facilities are using the best available technologies to handle and contain it. What is our government doing to keep us safe from harm?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. They obviously include climate change, but it also include health impacts from air pollution and water pollution. The current carbon-based energy system has serious downsides.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Conclusion.

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Breezometer

JULY 6, 2021

Governments, agencies, and scientific bodies tend to use a range of environmental monitoring methods to set emission standards and inform on pollution levels, conservation efforts, sustainable water management, and even measure economic impacts. Some examples of methods used to collect data include: Air pollution monitoring stations.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When peatlands burn, the stored CO2 gets released into the atmosphere, together other GHGs such as carbon monoxide (CO) and methane (CH4). The accompanying smoke plumes contribute to air pollution, affecting wildlife and human health. Deforestation fires emissions.

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Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

While the government-to-government negotiations produced only modest results, what was truly remarkable about the gathering in Glasgow was the array of other forces aligning behind the need for deep decarbonization.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 21, 2017

The NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team , or HAQAST, is collaborating with health departments, county and state agencies, and university researchers to get the word out about its satellite data. AQAST was instrumental in showing how satellites can ‘see’ trends in air pollution, even in areas where no other monitors exist.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It also ranks as one of the highest in the air quality app categories on both the Apple and Google Play stores. Building an Air Quality App for Consumers. In 2020, a lot changed, and more businesses are approaching us for help and advice on incorporating air quality data into their own consumer apps. how did we do it?

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Breezometer

JULY 3, 2021

When a firework explodes, it releases a combination of fine particulate matter (which includes heavy metals, as well as poisonous gases) into the atmosphere. This can cause a rapid impact on the surrounding air quality. What Happens when a Firework Goes Off? 3) Cooking Our Thanksgiving, Hanukkah & Christmas Dinners.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The Grand Jury Report was released by then Attorney General Shapiro in June 2020 after what he said then was a two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

But in the long term, they see increasingly strong government climate policies continuing to pop up and understand that if they are going to achieve their goal of keeping the country dependent on their product, they need to keep prices at a socially acceptable level so that people don’t switch to other technologies that are cheaper—and cleaner.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. DEP only requires the applicant for these general permits to notify the local government where the facility is to be located that it is applying for coverage under these general permits. Yes, three times a day, seven days a week for nearly a decade.] Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

The Grand Jury’s two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. Read more here.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. But radical changes in the energy sector are still needed. C according to projections.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

. -- Bursts Of Intense Natural Gas Emissions From Pigging Unit: On December 27, CNX Gas Co LLC’s Oak Springs stand-alone pig launcher/receiver along Farmer Lane in South Franklin Township, Washington County released bursts of dangerous methane emissions into the air around homes 1,500 feet away for over an hour.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

From beach clean-ups to mass tree-planting to marches, individuals, communities and governments have come out to stand shoulder-to-shoulder for our planet. CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May. Think of the atmosphere as a bathtub, and emissions as the water that flows from the tap.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Erie County -- North East Intermediate Elementary School , for “Protect Our Lake”: This project enhanced the third-grade curriculum with new content on environmental issues plaguing the Great Lakes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Bay Watershed Education & Training program.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Offshore drilling threatens our ocean and wildlife with oil spills , creates toxic air pollution and—most of all—worsens and deepens the climate crisis. We need to cut out this unwise provision and make the Inflation Reduction Act a law that fights climate change without a giant offshore drilling asterisk.

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

Despite localized temporary reductions in air pollution , the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have had minimal impact on climate trends. Preliminary estimates from satellite data indicate that global atmospheric carbon dioxide level increased by 0.6%, a slightly lower rate of increase than in recent years. Freja Vamborg.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. Federal Government Moved to Dismiss Keystone Pipeline Challenges. filed June 13, 2017).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

As human activities continue to spew heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, temperatures rise and cause the air to become “thirstier.” This thirstier air evaporates more water from rivers, lakes, and canals, as well as from soil, forests, vegetation, and crops, making drought conditions extreme.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Offshore drilling threatens our ocean and wildlife with oil spills , creates toxic air pollution and—most of all—worsens and deepens the climate crisis. We need to cut out this unwise provision and make the Inflation Reduction Act a law that fights climate change without a giant offshore drilling asterisk.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

The federal government has committed to ban thermal coal exports by 2030. But another eight years of supporting this harmful industry is not climate leadership and these groups are therefore calling on the federal government to ban thermal coal exports by 2023.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

So why is Ontario planning to ramp up the lone fossil fuel in the mix, when so many other governments are racing to do the opposite to cut carbon emissions? In fact, 2020 brought the largest single increase in methane in the atmosphere since we started measuring this in the 1980s. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 .

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. Local governments, schools, businesses, and organizations may apply for AFIG funding.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

600 per cent more by 2040 – which is going to add a lot more climate pollution to the atmosphere! TAKE ACTION: Tell Ontario to phase out polluting gas power . And Ontario is, well… Ontario really really likes so-called “natural” gas – a fossil fuel – and plans to use more of it to generate electricity. How much more?

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

News Briefs Air Pollution Proposal The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to strengthen air pollution standards for coal-fired power plants, a regulatory move that would also improve water quality and reduce the accumulation of pollutants in fish. government water policy.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

1 Effects once expected to occur decades in the future are happening now, leading to a new urgency for climate action by governments. So far, in 2023, unusually high amount of rain and snow from “atmospheric rivers” has helped bust a years-long drought and ensure the water supply is largely secure this year.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2022

So you go look at the legal system or you look at our institutions of government and you ask yourself, “Well, where did this relationship with the landscape, relationship with geography,” which in a sense is what also Parag has been thinking about for many years, “Where does that actually show up and how obvious is it?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

These reductions are greater than what was projected for the 2022 and 2021 proposals, thanks to changes that strengthen provisions to limit wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas and analytical updates that better capture the impacts of this rulemaking. Methane pollution, however, is a global problem. On December 2, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

When I coauthored a 2018 peer-reviewed study in Science , for instance, I predicted where a particularly hazardous pesticide called chlorpyrifos could pollute waterways that manatees use to migrate in Florida. The people of Flint demanded that their government recognize their human right to clean and safe drinking water, and they won.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. They appear to have a sympathetic ear in Justice Alito. During February’s oral arguments in West Virginia v.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis). EPA has offered no explanation for its sudden change in approach.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The IFO’s impartial analysis has been regarded as among the most trustworthy perspectives in state government for more than a decade,” Sen. And zero carbon emissions will be removed from the atmosphere. Thousands of jobs will disappear. Taxpayers deserve to know the true cost of Wolf administration’s out-of-touch policies.”

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