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On February 17, the Clean Air Council and the Environmental Integrity Project sent a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection urging the state to temporarily halt operations at a Shell plastics chemical plant in Beaver County that has repeatedly violated airpollution limits and recently released plumes of black smoke for several hours.
The total civil penalty assessments include $350,000 for air quality violations, which is the maximum civil penalty assessment allowable under the Pennsylvania AirPollutionControl Act, and $764,000 pursuant to Pennsylvania’s oil and gas and solid waste laws.
Burning waste—especially plastic waste—generates toxic and climate-warming gases that fill our air, our lungs and our atmosphere, warming the climate and making people sick. These communities are often already exposed to lots of airpollution from things like other industries, airports, and nearby highways.
The failures described above are a violation of the Solid Waste Management Act, the AirPollutionControl Act, DEP’s regulations, and conditions in the landfill’s existing permits it has with the Department.
The Commonwealth Court then entered a preliminary injunction enjoining the RGGI regulation, holding that the regulation’s auction of emissions allowances was a tax not legislatively authorized under the Pennsylvania AirPollutionControl Act. Thus, the RGGI auction proceeds are payments for use of public trust resources.
million of their product not leaking into the atmosphere, at current natural gas prices. Environmental Protection Agency to adopt controls on methane emissions from oil and gas operations by December 16 or face the potential loss of $500 million or more in federal highway funds. The alternative for Rep.
Pollution can rise into the air and be carried long distances before settling back to ground level. It can also collect in valleys or combine with other elements in the atmosphere to produce compounds harmful to humans at distances greater than the fence line. 27 Released 1.1
Since global and local pollutants are often byproducts of the same activities, mitigation policies for global warming emissions have the potential to simultaneously mitigate local airpollution 2. One good example of the nexus between global warming and local pollution is ground-level ozone. Bermix Studio/Unsplash PM2.5:
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.
Over 156 million people in the US are exposed to unhealthy levels of airpollutants, according to the recently published 2025 State-of-the Air report from the American Lung Association (ALA). For 25 years the report has helped people across the country understand the quality of the air in their communities.
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