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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

This is an integral step towards cleaning our air and reducing climate-warming emissions. California’s fleet of commercial trucks and buses is responsible for an outsized impact on air quality and climate change. pollution from vehicles. There are more than 1.8 It’s time to electrify trucks and you can help.

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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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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. Fourth, unlike the Clean Power Plan, this regulation is not just about greenhouse gases and climate change. Climate change strengthens the argument on behalf of the new standards.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2023

Pollution from these sources kills thousands of Americans a year and millions of people globally. Limiting climate change will itself protect ecosystems and biodiversity around the world. The disadvantaged face the biggest risks from climate change. Then there are the benefits of protecting nature.

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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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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2024

This increases the importance of controlling the House, particularly if Trump is elected — because otherwise the Democrats will be completely shut out of the federal government. The Chevron decision gives agencies leeway in interpreting regulatory statutes, which expands the policymaking role of EPA and other government agencies.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The Climate Act includes a binding goal of net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, following the recommendations of the IPCC. In 2019, Chile became President of the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25).

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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2024

Catastrophic wildfires are fueling complex and extensive public health impacts, including air pollution-related mortality and a growing toll on mental health. Wildfire smoke presents a population-wide health risk in California.

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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 Clean Ports Program and the Charging and Fueling Grant Program ).

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Climate change in California isn’t a future threat; we are already dealing with extreme drought and destructive wildfires. Switching from gasoline and diesel engines to electric motors is one of the most effective ways to reduce both global warming emissions and air pollution. Who supports Proposition 30 and why?

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Breezometer

JUNE 16, 2021

Researchers even found a correlation between maternal exposure to air pollution and increased susceptibility for Autism Spectrum Disorder in the third trimester of prenatal development. Children are particularly susceptible to the harmful effects of pollution as their lungs are still developing: Short-term Impact.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

However, goods movement through the Ports is a major source of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in the L.A. The South Coast Air Quality Management District has reported that the Ports are “the single largest fixed source of air pollution in Southern California.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The hypocrisy of the world’s biggest banks on climate change keeps mounting. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that all scenarios to meet the Paris Agreement ’s targets for holding planetary temperatures under 1.5 It was another corporate spit in the face of science.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The center’s environmental research and policy priorities include climate change law and policy; water allocation in the American West; property rights; environmental governance questions; renewable energy; and green technology. Center for Climate, Energy, Environment & Economics (UNC).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2022

Catatonic politics on climate change. The Biden administration, despite its efforts to restore respect for science throughout federal government, and its pledges to account for racial disparities, has frequently tripped over itself in bowing to political and economic pressures to drop restrictions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The climate crisis is one of humanity’s most complex conflicts yet. The dangerous impacts of a warming, fossil-fuel dependent world span from wildfires capable of destroying entire towns to cancer-causing air pollution that afflicts the next generation. Unfortunately, when it comes to climate change, the truth is often obscured.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 20, 2024

It offers a critical mechanism through which members of the public can have a direct say in the decisions our government is making. Four key steps Several studies suggest that trust in government is strongly associated with whether the public feels that government is responsive to their feedback.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Trump Administration’s massive campaign against government regulation was horrifying at the time and depressing in retrospect. Trump also left undisturbed the mandate that new industrial plants and factories emitting major amounts of other pollutants must use the best available technology to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Among the commenters was my colleague Sam Wilson , who passionately and effectively called on the EPA to follow the science and enact the strongest air pollution standards to protect people’s health. pollution is, even at low levels of concentration. pollution associated with the burning of fossil fuels could harm human health.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

While I support numerous campaigns related to biodiversity loss and climate change, I usually feel like I want to do more. So when I found out that the Ontario Government was planning to build a new gas-fired power plant where I live, in Thorold Ontario, the fight suddenly got personal.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

On March 9, 2023, the Japanese Supreme Court refused to hear the first climate change litigation brought before it without specifying substantive reasons. Those rights are established through case law and frequently invoked in environmental pollution cases. Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2021

And, the recent report from the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is no exception. The IPCC tells us that this is the decade when we must take action on climate change to avoid the worst- case scenarios. In our fight against climate change, we need to make sure every dollar makes a difference.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

But in fact, gas power plants are unreliable in extreme temperatures, which—thanks to climate change—have been occurring more frequently. First, there’s air pollution. Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality. VY: They do.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. Now that there is a desperate need to slash global warming emissions worldwide to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, it is critical to rapidly phase out the use of all fossil fuels.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Congress must pass a full year of funding bills or a continuing resolution to keep our government working for us. © The end of the federal government’s fiscal year falls on Thursday, September 30, 2021. We know that a government shutdown has disastrous consequences. Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

Justice40ward Toxic Tours are happening all over the country in an effort to educate folks, including federal government employees, about the Biden Administration Justice40 goal to prioritize 40 percent of federal investments in clean energy, energy efficiency, clean transit, clean water infrastructure, remediation of legacy pollution, etc.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 22, 2024

From mega wildfires to declining salmon runs and a recent natural disaster declaration for Washington’s iconic cherry crop, communities across the state are seeing direct impacts of climate change. We must ensure the CCA remains in place as the foundation for continued investments in climate adaptation and resilience.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Fixing the cost of living crisis does not need to come at the expense of fixing climate change. Whether we experience an affordable and safe future, or one of spiralling costs and climate impacts, depends most on one thing: government action. Runaway climate change results in an increase in extreme weather events.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Safeguards for science in government decision-making are crucial to the health and safety of underserved communities — in fact, they are a matter of life or death. Public health decisions that fly in the face of scientific evidence exacerbate these long-standing inequities.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

Student in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University How climate change offers opportunities to revitalize and reconnect with rural communities Rural voices are increasingly lamented as forgotten and unacknowledged. Guest Post by Shae Rupinsky 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This Private Member’s Bill is only necessary because the federal government has failed to keep its own promise. Back in 2021, the federal government committed to ending the export of thermal coal before 2030. Air pollutants from coal plants are linked to chronic heart and respiratory disease, and a host of acute ailments.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2024

Under the Clean Air Act, nationwide EPA air pollution rules can only be challenged in the D.C. Circuit views regulations as presumptively valid because they come from a coequal branch of government, so it is stingy about granting preliminary injunctions. Circuit, where EPA will get a much fairer hearing.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 1, 2022

And the wasteful operation also cheats the government of royalties for using the gas. According to the court, the law prohibiting waste of oil and gas produced on public lands “does not allow and was not intended to authorize the enactment of rules justified primarily upon the ancillary benefit of a reduction in air pollution.”

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