Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 4, 2023

Trucks and buses on California’s roads and highways are responsible for the majority of lung-damaging fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions, and a sizable amount of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions as well. Both the state and federal governments have committed billions of dollars to spur this work.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

The final rule will improve air quality for millions of people living in downwind communities, saving thousands of lives, keeping people out of the hospital, preventing asthma attacks, and reducing sick days.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

The petition points to these potential benefits of electrification-- -- Benefits to electric-grid utilization – electrification of transportation could improve load factor on the grid, increasing the overall efficiency of the system. The burning of transportation fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, is a substantial source of air pollution.

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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 33 percent of NOx emissions from all on-road transportation in the state. Regulate more tractor trucks, including the smaller fleets.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

California has a longstanding leadership role on transportation pollution, and the Clean Air Act grants the state the right to set strong vehicle emissions standards. We in Colorado have many days of problematic ozone. We need every tool we can apply to gain healthier air. Traffic is a major concern.

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Breezometer

MARCH 23, 2022

In the world of air pollution and air quality, there is a lot of discussion about Particulate matter (PM) and its impact on the health of people all over the world. But what exactly is PM pollution and how does it affect us? PM pollution can consist of a number of different materials and compounds.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

“The Shapiro Administration is committed to supporting municipalities, school districts, and businesses that want to make zero- or low-emission transportation part of their operations,” said DEP Secretary Rich Negrin. The transportation sector makes up 22 percent of Pennsylvania’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2022

With Driving PA Forward Truck and Bus Fleet Grants, DEP is helping school districts, municipalities, and businesses switch to cleaner transportation, so that Pennsylvania’s kids, employees, and communities can breathe healthier air as they go about their day-to-day lives,” said DEP Acting Secretary Ramez Ziadeh.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

By: Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 8, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching Clean Air Act rule intended to address the interstate transport of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from upwind to downwind states. See 76 Fed. 48208 (Aug. See David E.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2022

Tom Wolf recognized employees from the departments of Conservation and Natural Resources, Environmental Protection and Transportation with the Governor’s Award for Excellence for environment-related projects. educational video and efforts to reduce air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2021

Doing so will yield important benefits for the future of Pennsylvania and the American transportation industry.” transportation sector. Conventional vehicles are a leading source of air pollutants that affect human health. Transportation is also the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

These trucks, which move shipping containers and goods from ports and railyards, are among the dirtiest on the road and are a primary source of air pollution in disproportionately impacted communities. pollution from vehicles. A full transition to electric drayage truck operations in 2035. There are more than 1.8

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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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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Every year, about 200,000 Americans die from smog, which is a mix of ozone and fine particulates (PM. The Clean Air Act (CAA) regulates smog, setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and PM. Many cities in the Northeast fail ozone and PM. The EPA then assumed that each polluter in the NO.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 The United States Forest Service has also carried out thorough studies on black carbon transport to the Arctic in an effort to minimize the effect of black carbon emissions from wildfire and agricultural burning (US Forest Service Research & Development 2012).

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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Gas plants proposed as of the close of 2021 were estimated to result in up to $74 billion in health costs over their lifetime, and that’s just from the burning of gas at the power plant, ignoring all of the polluting upstream impacts from drilling and transporting gas.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 27, 2022

EPA also used satellite studies of the effect of the COVID lockdown, with its traffic reduction, on local pollution, which found that the lockdown resulted in the greatest pollution reductions in areas with higher concentrations of people of color. and ozone concentrations as a result of the standards.”.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

There are many human-made sources of emissions, and on-road motor vehicles, such as cars, are a huge driving factor in air pollution. Motor vehicle exhaust is one big source of ground-level ozone or smog, fine particulate matter, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Emission Sources : Anthropogenic methane emissions are widely associated with fossil fuel (natural gas, oil, and coal production and transportation), although the largest sources are agriculture (from livestock farming [. Co Benefits for Human Health : Methane is a key precursor of tropospheric ozone (ground level), a harmful air pollutant.

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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.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

For example, soil sampling must consider depth - shallow soils because people are exposed to them, at the water table because it's the first encounter with a that medium, or in multiple aquifers because there are various routes of contaminant transport. Pollution release or transport rates or distance. in air inhaled).

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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. gpm NOx standard.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The manager’s bill package from Reed and Inhofe includes language from Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-MS) reauthorizing the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000. The language establishes a U.S. Delayed Formaldehyde Critique by Science Advisers Set to Begin – Bloomberg.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Because the challengers did not explain how the discrepancy would impact estimates of air pollution, according to the majority, their challenge based on this discrepancy failed to undermine the validity of the environmental assessment. There’s a lot of back and forth about just where these numbers came from and how FAA used them.

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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. What Do Communities Experience Now, what's a community's experience?

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2022

The Biden Administration is slowly grinding away at an important regulatory task: reconsidering the air quality standards for particulates and ozone. The Administration has also announced that it intends to reconsider the ozone standards. Revising the standards will also help address air pollution.

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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. The updates would provide more comprehensive requirements to reduce climate and health-harming air pollution, including from hundreds of thousands of existing oil and gas sources nationwide.

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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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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2022

It might be able to tighten the squeeze on fossil fuels, however, by ramping up other pollution regulations dealing with interstate air pollution, ceilings for particular pollution, regulation of methane leaks from gas production, etc.

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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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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Before floor debate, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved amendments to the original bill that brought total funding for the proposed NSF Technology Directorate from $100 billion by FY 2026 to $29 billion and redirected $17 billion from the NSF Technology Directorate to the Department of Energy Office of Science.

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