Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

The reason for this long drought has a lot to do with changes in precipitation patterns and rising temperatures linked to human-caused climate change, but it also has to do with human decisions that have led to the overexploitation of water resources of our rivers, lakes, and groundwater and a lack of sufficient policies to protect these resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

We are at the height of Danger Season , the time of year when extreme weather events driven by climate change are most prevalent across North America. The power sector is the second highest source of climate pollution in the U.S. Burning gas and coal leads to carbon dioxide emissions and air pollutants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Now comes the court’s crippling of the most important federal weapon available to avoid catastrophic climate change and its associated killing of tens of thousands of Americans every year with fossil fuel air pollution. The Supreme Court is ignoring the science on health. The data are overwhelming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Air pollution from ports comes from many sources: ships, trains, tugboats, cargo equipment, and – quite importantly – the trucks that move cargo containers to and from ports. Because drayage trucks tend to be among the oldest tractor trucks on the road, they tend to pollute at greater rates than other tractors.

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MGKF Law

AUGUST 2, 2023

On July 25, 2023, a Third Circuit panel rejected an environmental group’s challenge of federally approved changes to Pennsylvania’s State Implementation Plan (“SIP”), holding that the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) emissions-based analysis did not violate the Clean Air Act (“CAA”).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

So of course the American Lung Association ’s yearly report, State of the Air (SOTA), published every year since 2000, is of professional and personal interest. The air quality for this report was calculated using data reviewed by EPA from 2020, 2021, and 2022. We cannot change the topography. We need to reverse climate change.

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Environmental Law Reporter

MAY 28, 2021

In the Biden administration, environmental issues are taking center stage. Environmental Protection Agency is being reshaped and reinvigorated, prioritizing climate change and reduction of air pollution. President Joe Biden's U.S. One of Biden's first signed executive orders is telling.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2022

Zero-emission trucks were hardly considered viable just a few years ago, but now heavy-duty electric trucks – think semis, delivery vans, and other large commercial vehicles – are beginning to hit the roads and are poised to deliver significant benefits for clean air, climate change, and fleet operators.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

Earth Day began under the Nixon Administration in 1970 as a day to support environmental protection and has grown to include nations and communities around the world in appreciation of Mother Earth. Leading up to Earth Day this year, I’ve been reflecting on the meaning and purpose of the annual celebration. It is made up of $4.75

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2022

On August 16, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Conservation District released a study linking contamination in Pittsburgh’s urban soils to historical air pollution emissions and atmospheric inversions. Urban soils are known to contain various harmful contaminants that pose health risks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Still though, counties across the state have air that hasn’t met the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) standards for decades, causing a host of public health problems from asthma and cardiovascular issues to premature death. This all makes Maryland one of the deadliest states for diesel particulate pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 20, 2024

The transition to replace the most heavily polluting diesel vehicles on the road with zero-emission models is critical both to avoid the worst effects of climate change and to clean up foul air in freight-adjacent neighborhoods. The strategy is yet another piece of the federal electric vehicle vision coming to fruition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2022

Catatonic politics on climate change. Communities suffocating from environmental injustice. All these issues are tragically linked by the hardening divisions in the United States over our acceptance or rejection of expertise in science, public health, and environmental protection.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Late last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asked the public to provide oral comments on a major rule that will determine how much soot pollution you are exposed to. But the oral comments also included several speakers representing the industries producing a substantial amount of this deadly air pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This is essential, because scientific monitoring efforts suggest that for all emissions sources, the actual emissions are higher than what countries are reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in their own emissions inventories. But still, much more action is needed.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

On May 22, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the award of $980,256 in Environmental Education Grants to 56 projects that will promote environmental education and stewardship across Pennsylvania. Click Here for a list of projects funded.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

First, multiple local community members talked about their experiences with apathetic decisionmakers, energy burdens, air pollution, legacy contamination, and the impacts on their respiratory health. Many discussed exacerbations of allergies by air pollution. This is about environmental racism.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. Federal vehicle standards are needed to keep us on track We’re likely to see the next round of vehicle standards finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the coming weeks. The stakes frankly have never been higher.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Given the deadly risks of soot, especially to communities assaulted by polluting industries and vehicle exhaust from highways and heavy trucking, there’s nothing fine about the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) recent proposal to clamp down on fine-particulate pollution. for particulate matter that is 2.5

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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. Climate Change on the Docket.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. On December 2, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2022

trillion infrastructure bill signed by President Biden last November, nearly every Republican in the Senate voted against establishing a reserve fund to address the crisis of climate change. The agency says the reduction in air pollution would avoid 2 million premature deaths a year by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Another statistic, one that’s not so favorable: Laredo is among the top 20 locations for heightened cancer risk, thanks to a medical sterilization plant emitting a toxic pollutant that increases the risk of leukemia, particularly for children. Some have censored or intimidated the experts.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

As a major energy-producing state, we have a responsibility to lead the way in addressing climate change. PACER is the way forward to cleaner air, job growth, and consumer savings on electricity bills,” said Sen. Comitta, who serves as Minority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Communities and ecosystems continue to suffer the consequences of human-caused climate change , primarily from the burning of fossil fuels across our economy. New in this UCS analysis is a look at the public health co-benefits of reducing air pollution from fossil fuels that occur from decarbonizing our economy.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing May 1 on cryptocurrency and climate change. Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee held a hearing on proposed federal legislation cryptocurrency mining operations. PA Background On March 7, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities. Find more materials at DEP’s Climate Change webpage.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 21, 2022

They are also aimed at building community; fostering curricular and research innovation; and informing the ongoing, year-one implementation of The Environmental Collaboratory. Environmental Protection Agency. Congratulations to the following awardees!

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MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Read More » Tags: Air , Climate Change , Commonwealth Court , Pennsylvania , Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection , Taxes Bowfin KeyCon Holdings, LLC vs. Pa. Dep’t of Env’t Prot. Env’t Quality Bd. 2023 WL 7171547, at *1 (Pa.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2023

This means that our congressional representatives will debate and discuss scientific integrity protections in committee and potentially even vote on the issue in coming months.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently developing a regulation to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from trucks, known as the Phase 3 GHG standards, which would in theory result in increased adoption of electric trucks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

There is no EPA standard for indoor air.) Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. But a study published in the December 2022 issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health calculated that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2023

A USPS fleet that maximizes electrification potential would not only help to reduce climate warming and air pollution but would help to make electric vehicles more commonplace in every community across the nation. Lasting and Catalyzing Impacts USPS trucks are one of the most visible and familiar vehicles in any community.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For the Advanced Clean Trucks standard to move forward in Pennsylvania, the Department of Environmental Protection would need to draft proposed regulations and initiate the multi-year rulemaking process. These gains include $1.3 billion in net fleet savings and $382 million in utility net revenue, totaling nearly $24.9 billion by 2050.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Biden, on the other hand, has said that “creating jobs and tackling climate change go hand in hand.” In terms of the overall economy, the idea that environmental regulation destroys jobs seems to be a myth. Overall, there seems to be no reason to cede the jobs issue to opponents of environmental protection.

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