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Air Pollution & Climate Change: Global Phenomena, Individual Consequences

Breezometer

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ozone can inflame the cells that line a child’s upper airways and lungs, harming the respiratory system “like a sunburn damages the skin.” Repeated and excessive traffic pollution and poor air quality were determined to be linked to Ella's worsening asthma.

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Third Circuit Confirms EPA’s Approval of Pennsylvania’s Air Pollution Plan

MGKF Law

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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How Will EPA’s Proposed Power Plant Carbon Rule Impact Public Health?

Union of Concerned Scientists

The power sector is the second highest source of climate pollution in the U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a proposed rule which would limit carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning power plants, a move which is critically important, statutorily required, and long overdue.

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Dear Maryland: It’s Time to Drive Clean Trucks and Buses

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Federal Water Tap, April 24: Pennsylvania’s Pollution Failures Targeted in Proposed Chesapeake Bay Settlement

Circle of Blue

And lastly, the EPA establishes that water and wastewater are eligible categories for billions in federal funding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. “We By the Numbers $27 Billion : Size of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a pot of money included in the Inflation Reduction Act.

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EPA Awards Allegheny County $10 Million Grant Replace Diesel With Electric Buses In Mon Valley

PA Environment Daily

Environmental Protection Agency has selected Allegheny County’s Targeted Airshed Grant for funding. This grant will directly address environmental and health inequities in the Mon Valley through the replacement of diesel buses with new zero-emission vehicles for Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT).

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NRDC: Moving To Electric Trucks In PA Could Save 140 Lives, Create 3,524 Jobs

PA Environment Daily

billion per year in net societal benefits (the monetized value of climate and public health benefits resulting from reduced greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter; as well as net cost savings to light-duty vehicle owners from operating zero emission vehicles and savings to all electricity customers).