Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Upcoming research from my colleague Dave Cooke shows that electric delivery trucks can reduce climate-warming emissions from driving by up to 92 percent and reduce lifecycle public health impacts by up to 85 percent compared to today’s average fossil-fueled delivery trucks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Tailpipes from our cars, trucks and buses are also a major source of toxic local air pollution that disproportionately harms overburdened and underserved communities. In other words, technological solutions are necessary but not sufficient. On the technology side, decarbonization is the key.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way). Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) projects that 50 percent of US passenger car sales could very well be electric by 2030. How significant is that?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Which means the consequences of these polluters unabashedly continuing to pollute aren’t just severe—they’re compounding. The IRA gave us effective tools for cleaning up the power sector through dedicated support for the rapid and widescale deployment of renewable resources and the technologies that support them.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We need to plan for energy infrastructure that supports our economy and reduces harmful air pollution. These firms recognized that they could not assume the risks of exacerbating climate damage from continued burning of fossil fuels. Some forecasting models must use observations of young people, no?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

The IRA also includes some less than ideal fossil-fuel supporting incentives that will need continued monitoring. EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants : This $5 billion program administered by the EPA aims to reduce climate warming emissions and other air pollution. It is made up of $4.75

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Mitigating methane emissions from oil and gas operations by supporting investments in leakage reduction technologies and charging a fee for emission exceedances. Incentivizing industrial decarbonization by providing grants for investments to reduce emissions and federal procurement support to backstop demand for clean products.

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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. Today, sales in California not only far exceed these targets, but ahead of schedule, because regulators in part underestimated how fast technology would improve. ). By making historic investments in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 25, 2024

This support for EV charging, and by extension EV ownership among individuals and businesses, is key for accelerating the electrification of the transportation sector that we need to make progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution from transportation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

California’s leadership on reducing truck pollution has been on full display the past few years, passing critical regulations requiring 90 percent reduction in smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NO X ) emissions from diesel trucks and requiring manufacturers sell an increasing share of electric trucks to move away from fossil fuels altogether.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2024

T he California Air Resources Board reports that in 2021, heavy-duty trucking was responsible for over 30 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, making up roughly 10% of the state’s total emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

Resource Links: -- EPA Finalizes Standards To Reduce Pollution From Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants -- Gov. Friel-Otten, Rep. Abney Introduce Gov.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Fossil gas, or “natural gas,” as it’s been cunningly branded, is a fossil fuel that causes warming and is harmful to human health. Its mainstream name is nothing more than a clever marketing scheme by Big Oil to make the fuel sound natural, safe, and clean. Three Ways We Can Turn Off Polluting “Natural” Gas 1.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Air Permits In Pennsylvania In Pennsylvania, the Department of Environmental Protection, Allegheny County and the City of Philadelphia administer the federal Clean Air Act permit program for the federal government, issue and enforce Air Quality Permit limits and requirements in the Commonwealth.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- TribLive: DEP Declares TODAY Code Orange Air Quality Alert For Liberty/Clairton, Allegheny County = -- FERC Approves PJM $1.25 Gas Explosions -- WPXI: Major Natural Gas Leak At Ross Twp.,

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. at 528–529. 7411(b)(1)(B); see also §7411(a)(2). at 427–428.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

One is a subsidy to Enbridge—a fossil fuel giant—to build a fossil fuel power plant. Instead, it will lock in polluting fossil fuel infrastructure for decades. Instead, this false solution will foist more waste and air pollution on a community that is already overburdened with both.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Napoleon Nelson with the Champion of the Environment Award for his commitment to environmental justice and green technologies in Philadelphia and across the state.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- Philadelphia Gas Works - Richmond LNG Gas Plant: Philadelphia Air Management Services invites comments on the renewal of the Title V Air Quality Permit for the natural gas liquefaction facility located at 3100 East Venango Street in Philadelphia. ( Lancaster County. ( Bradford County. ( Cameron County. (

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

Despite the generous funding opportunities and holistic flexibilities baked into ACF, confusion around and misinformation about the rule may undermine this much-needed shift away from fossil-fueled trucks and buses. Also funded through the IRA, the program provides $250 million for non-competitive planning grants and around $4.6

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2025

Our mission is to improve policy and regulations for the oversight of fossil fuel extraction and use; to educate, empower and organize coalfield citizens; and to protect public and environmental health. CCJ has over three thousand members and supporters and is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2024

TODAY 9:45: House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee meets to consider House Bill 1615 (O’Mara-D-Delaware) setting energy efficiency standards for appliances. Room 205 Ryan Building. Click Here to watch online. Room G-50 Irvis Building.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Governmental policies established as a result of commitments made in the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement have already successfully prevented the emissions of several Gigatons of CO 2 , targeting deforestation, energy efficiency, new technology deployment, and carbon accounting as their main mitigation efforts.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rather than pouring money into outdated technologies like fossil gas which increase emissions and air pollution, Ontario should create jobs, grow our economy and reduce emissions by investing in new technologies and home energy efficiency. Reserve hydrogen and gas from renewable sources (e.g.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 5054 ) Air Quality Permits -- McElroy Green Marketing LLC - Mine Methane Flare Project: DEP invites comments on Air Quality Plan Approval for the project located in Gilmore Twp., Bradford County. ( Butler County. ( Greene County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Greene County. ( Greene County. ( Susquehanna County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

Presumably the authors of this legislation did not mean that barbers or any of the 28 state “licensed professionals” could be the reviewers of permits covering air pollution, hazardous waste or stream channel crossings. Read more here. Read more here.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2025

Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. Room B-31 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online. April 24-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Join by telephone by calling (877) 304-9269, passcode 2619070#.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Erie Center for Arts and Technology, Lawrence Community Room, 650 East Avenue, Erie, Erie County ; -- October 18: In-Person, 6 p.m.—7:30 University of Scranton Loyola Science Center, 100 Linden Street, Room 133, Scranton, Lackawanna County ; -- October 18: In-Person, 5 p.m.—8 Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2024

Room G-50 Irvis Building. April 17-- Senate Democratic Policy Committee hearing on the environmental and public health impacts associated with the practice of spreading oil and gas drilling waste, known as brine, on Pennsylvania's roads for dust control and ice management. Valley Township Building, 1145 W. Click Here to watch online.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

We have better technologies that can create the energy we need and protect our children,” added van Rossum. The Yale Study will add to the wealth of scientific research documenting the devastating impacts of the fossil fuel industry and fracking on human health, communities and the environment.

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2021

“The current proposal places this big source of pollution in a residential neighborhood near an elementary school. Although Nacero says that its business is based on proven technology, little is known about the process. Only one plant employing the technology exists in the world and that plant opened in 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2023

Click Here for options to join the meeting remotely. Contact: Adam Walters, 717-214-6548, adwalters@pa.gov.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

TODAY 9:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee holds a hearing on House Bill 791 (Isaacson-D-Philadelphia) establishing measures to prevent the theft of vehicle catalytic converters ( sponsor summary ). A hearing was held on the bill June 5. Room 140 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online. Read more here.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

We selected BYD because they are the largest manufacturer of electric buses globally and they are known for battery technology that is state-of-the-art,” BasiGo co-founder and CEO Jit Bhattacharya told China Dialogue. air pollution in Nairobi. Over 40% of Kenya’s electricity generation is geothermal in origin.

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