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) These trucks regularly operate along industrial corridors – areas that often flank communities disproportionately impacted by air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Comments due March 8. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 3 PA Bulletin inviting comments on proposed 2024 Ozone Season Nitrogen Oxide Emission Limits for Nonelectric Generating Units.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

NO x also contributes to the formation of ozone (or “smog”), another toxic pollutant. pollution, which are particles with diameters of 2.5 In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7 A recent study found that more than 99 percent of the global population is exposed to unsafe levels of PM 2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Diesel pollution is a known carcinogen , and particulate emissions like those from trucks have clear negative health impacts including heart disease and increased emergency room visits for cardiovascular problems. Freight traffic is on the rise, impacting the health and well-being of the communities through which these polluting trucks drive.

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Breezometer

JANUARY 26, 2022

Air Pollution - Under a high greenhouse gas scenario, premature mortality attributed to climate change in 2030 could reach 3,340 for ozone-related deaths and 55,600 for PM 2.5. Climate change experts predict drastic changes in the next decades: Wildfires - An increase of 1° Celsius (1.8° Source ).

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Specifically, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) requires 27 states, including Louisiana and Texas, to make dramatic cuts in power plant emissions. Emissions reductions will take effect quickly, starting January 1, 2012 for SO2 and annual NOx reductions, and May 1, 2012 for ozone season (May-September) NOx reductions.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

NOx is a contributor to the formation of summer ozone, and particulate matter smaller than 2.5 EPA regulations require that rebuilt locomotive engines use the latest technology (for that model year locomotive) to reduce emissions. microns has been shown to cause lung damage and cancer.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2022

By replacing older polluting engines and equipment with new technologies, funded projects remove nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and hydrocarbon pollution from the air. The projects are located in high-population areas with dense traffic and high air pollution levels.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

AQ-Watch was formed as a response to the pressing global air pollution problem. Ambient air pollution poses the greatest environmental threat to public health, responsible for an estimated 4.2 Fighting Air Pollution On Multiple Fronts. BreezoMeter and its partners won the grant for the AQ-Watch project.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2022

educational video and efforts to reduce air pollution. Reducing Air Pollution DEP Air Quality Engineer Vince Pascucci was recognized for his work to fight climate change and protect and improve air quality throughout Pennsylvania. Learn more about environmental education and state parks on the DCNR website.

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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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Breezometer

JULY 3, 2021

This can cause a rapid impact on the surrounding air quality. Studies have also shown that fireworks can create a ‘burst’ of ozone formation, also harmful to human health. An examination by Dyson found firework pollution impacts indoor air quality too. The graph below highlights the spike in PM2.5

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2021

Electric vehicle technology has improved rapidly over the last decade, paving the way for new models of every vehicle class. Conventional vehicles are a leading source of air pollutants that affect human health. “It is now vital to build upon that work by taking the necessary actions to meet the objectives outlined in the MOU.

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

The report recommends flexible policy approaches that can be adjusted over time as technologies evolve and more knowledge is gained. The light-duty vehicle and fuels sections identified specific technology and policy pathways to contribute to a zero-carbon transportation system while also supporting improved mobility.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 Significant Economic and Environmental Gains Can Be Achieved by Applying Best Available Technology in the Oil Sector in the Arctic.” AMAP Assessment 2015: Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic Climate Forcers.” link] Climate & Clean Air Coalition.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Co Benefits for Human Health : Methane is a key precursor of tropospheric ozone (ground level), a harmful air pollutant. Increased methane emissions are responsible for more than half of the observed increase in tropospheric ozone levels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

EPA has already finalized a rule that aims to address interstate ozone pollution , dubbed the Good Neighbor Plan. This means that when the price of gas spikes –as it did in 2022 amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and inevitably will again in the future–the price of electricity for consumers also eventually spikes in response.

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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 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

JANUARY 21, 2022

million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. Transportation generates 47 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to the formation of ground-level ozone.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

White House: The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) will meet Nov 9, 2022. The report also recommends strengthening laboratory biosafety and biosecurity, maintaining a strong science and technology base and improving domestic and international public health infrastructure. science and technology Oct.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

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

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Erie Center for Arts and Technology, Ada Lawrence Community Room, 650 East Avenue, Erie, Erie County ( formal notice of change ) ; -- October 18: In-Person, 6 p.m.—7:30 University of Scranton, Loyola Science Center, 200 Monroe Avenue , Scranton, Lackawanna County ; -- CHANGE: October 18: In-Person, 6 p.m.—8 Read more here.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

At the high temperatures in internal combustion engines, some of the nitrogen in the air actually burns, resulting in the formation NO or NO 2 , which are collectively called NOx. NOx plays a role in forming ground level ozone and final particulates (PM2.5), both of which are human health hazards. grams per mile (gpm) for NOx.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Regardless, places with high densities of emissions, such as industrialized cities, still have air pollution problems, and these are called “non-attainment areas” because those areas fail to attain one or more NAAQS. Implementation of the Clean Air Act is a unique (from a regulatory perspective) partnership between EPA and each state.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

Ramamurthy also said the final regulation does not change the substance of how Reasonably Available Control Technology requirements are set for unconventional and conventional oil and gas facilities. It is applied equally to both, not making it a substantively different rulemaking. The Preamble to the revised rulemaking says “.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The court sided with the community and ordered the city to use an analytically sound model developed by Eric Schwartz of the University of Michigan and Jacob Abernethy of the Georgia Institute of Technology to efficiently locate and replace the pipes. But Big Ag pollutes more than water. And that pollution has compounding consequences.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2022

the Department will develop a separate rulemaking for the RACT requirements for sources of VOC emissions installed at conventional well sites” since the regulations covering oil and gas facilities are being promulgated to attain both the federal 2008 and 2015 ozone standard. The Preamble to the revised rulemaking says “.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. innovation and manufacturing of critical new technologies, all while delivering significant economic benefits through increased recovery of wasted gas. million homes for the winter.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In its legislative findings, which remain in air quality statutes today , Congress justified air pollution regulation because “the growth of the amount and complexity of air pollution brought about by urbanization, industrial development, and the increasing use of motor vehicles, has resulted in mounting dangers to the public health and welfare.”

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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

JULY 25, 2022

Horizontal drilling with high intensity hydraulic fracturing was a new technology and a new method for [natural] gas extraction in many ways, but at the same time, it wasn't altogether new. Wastewater can also have various heavy metals and radioactive materials present that can harm health. There's often large withdrawals of surface water.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

This bill creates a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increases NSF’s overall authorized funding level to $29 billion by fiscal year (FY) 2026. A Letter from Eric Lander upon starting as Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy – White House. Executive Branch.

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