Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

In late April, California air regulators are poised to pass one of the most meaningful regulations to reduce pollution from commercial trucks, vans, and buses. The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule, which I’ve blogged about in detail before, will phase out fossil-fueled trucks over the next several decades.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. The brief is available here.

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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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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators. Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

None of that means climate change isn’t, and won’t continue to be, a factor in global health, particularly if action to prevent it also reduces air pollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants. For example, the Green New Deal proposed by Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Methane also contributes to the formation of ground-level ozone which is itself a heat-trapping greenhouse gas and, when inhaled by humans, can trigger a variety of health problems from throat irritation and coughing to bronchitis, asthma, and reduced lung function. EPA has offered no explanation for its sudden change in approach.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. Fully fund and staff government agencies that protect public health.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2022

Other States/National/International -- Utility Dive: EPA Regional Ozone Proposal Threatens Electric Reliability: RTOs, State Utility Regulators PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh-Area Man Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Air pollution generally has many proven. including urban photochemical smog, acid rain and increased tropospheric ozone, and climate change at the local, regional, and global level respectively. Air pollution also.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

the UHIE occurs in metropolitan areas and “can affect communities by increasing summertime peak energy demand, air conditioning costs, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, heat-related illness, mortality, and water quality.”. According to the US Environmental Protection . gency (EPA). , Notably, global urbanization.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Health First Pennsylvania is a dedicated bunch of health professionals, health advocates, parents, faith leaders, all dedicated to trying to make the use and extraction of fossil fuels, especially methane, in Pennsylvania, as safe as possible, and to limit the damage.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

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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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