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Ask a Scientist: UCS Transportation Program Adds Equitable Mobility to its Portfolio

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. Tailpipe pollution also is a major contributor to the climate crisis. I recently caught up with Kevin X.

Nitrogen Oxides

Nitrogen Oxides Carbon Monoxide Electricity Law

Recentering Environmental Law: A Thought Experiment

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

First of all, we would have had a very different understanding of the air pollution problem. We thought that the key to reducing air pollution was to require better pollution control devices. Instead, we would have understood that the root problem was the burning of fossil fuels in the first place.

Law

Law Pollution Control Fossil Fuels Air Pollution

The Truck Industry’s Decades-long War on Stronger Pollution Controls

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The EPA is under extreme pressure from industry to propose an absurdly ineffective standard for trucks.

Pollution Control

Pollution Control Air Pollution Electricity

Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. Some 23,000 megawatts of coal capacity is projected to be retired due to the new transport rule, largely at units that are not economic candidates for SCR retrofits. million tons, a reduction of 5.1

Ozone

Ozone Clean Air Act 2026 2015

EPA: Pennsylvania One Of 45 States, MSAs To Submit Priority Climate Action Plans As Part Of $5 Billion Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

DEP said it has the statutory authority in the 1995 law that created the agency, the state Air Pollution Control Act and other laws to establish grant and funding programs to implement the Plan. Pennsylvania’s Climate Action Priority Plan is available online.

Natural Gas

Natural Gas Clean Energy Electricity Renewable Energy

EPA: Power Plant, Pipeline, Cement, Paper, Glass And Other Industries In PA, Other States Face Tighter NOx Standards Under EPA’s Final Good Neighbor Rule

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Beginning in the 2026 ozone season, EPA is setting enforceable NOX emissions control requirements for certain sources at existing and new industrial facilities that have significant impacts on downwind air quality and the ability to install cost-effective pollution controls.

Nitrogen Oxides

Nitrogen Oxides Ozone 2026 Pollution Control

2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Now, SB 1137 protects communities by establishing a setback distance of 3,200 feet for homes, schools, parks, or businesses open to the public from new wells, and requires comprehensive pollution controls for existing oil wells within the setback zone.

2021

2021 2022 Sea Level Clean Energy

EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Will Have A Dramatic Impact on Texas and Louisiana

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.

Air Pollution

Air Pollution 2011 Clean Air Act Nitrogen Oxides

Federal Courts Need to Allow the EPA to Clear the Air

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The CAA expressly forbids pollution from one state “significantly contributing” to another state’s nonattainment of its air quality standards, and in recent years, the EPA has promulgated rules using regional cap-and-trade programs to control the interstate transport of smog precursors from power plants. In 2012, in.

Ozone

Ozone Air Pollution Pollution Control 2012

French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

Court orders 42 Ugandan families evicted to make way for oil project

Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa

Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

Climate groups call for funding withdrawal of TotalEnergies’ Mozambique project

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

2013

2013 2007 Natural Gas Fossil Fuels

South Africa gives go-ahead for TotalEnergies to drill offshore

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

Green groups target TotalEnergies over Tanzania, Uganda projects

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

How to Get to Zero Emissions at the Ports

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

However, goods movement through the Ports is a major source of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in the L.A. The South Coast Air Quality Management District has reported that the Ports are “the single largest fixed source of air pollution in Southern California.”

Air Pollution

Air Pollution 2030 Greenhouse Fossil Fuels

Cities & the Inflation Reduction Act

Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Several provisions – a few of which are directly available to local governments – can additionally help address local air pollution and other inequitable impacts to vulnerable communities. States, Indian tribes, and air pollution control agencies are also eligible for funding. Clean Air Act.

2026

2026 Clean Air Act Air Pollution Greenhouse

The Inflation Reduction Act: Investments in Environmental Justice

Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

Allocated $53 million to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for air quality monitoring conducted by the EPA in low-income and disadvantaged communities and at schools in these communities. Tax Credits. Allocated $1.10

Air Pollution

Air Pollution Pollution Control 2005 Carbon Emissions

Third District Addresses Significant CEQA Issues In Mixed Decision On Placer County’s EIR For Specific Plan/Rezoning Allowing Development of Martis Valley Timberlands

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The FEIR also discussed a study by County’s transportation consultants that modeled how long it would take fully occupied West Parcel development (935 vehicles) to evacuate in a wildfire emergency using SR 267 north to the Truckee airport during peak summer tourist season; the consultant estimated the evacuation would take 1.3

Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy Clean Energy Conservation 2013

Gov. Shapiro, CNX Natural Gas Company Sign Statement Of Mutual Interests To Monitor Air Emissions At Drill Sites, Extend Safety Setbacks While Data Is Being Collected; DEP To Move Ahead With Some Reg Changes

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Folks who dealt with contaminated water and air pollution and suffered severe health consequences that they believed were a result of fracking happening near their homes.” “Now, The company has also been criminally charged with violations of the Air Pollution Control Act in Washington County.

Natural Gas

Natural Gas Air Pollution Environmental Protection Waste

Cars, Smog, and EPA

Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards. Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. The history of these pollution standards is quite distinctive. Congress adjusted the standards twice.

Ground-Level Ozone

Ground-Level Ozone Pollution Control Clean Air Act Ozone

Environmental Perspectives

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).

Clean Water Act

Clean Water Act Waste Clean Air Act Regulations

Pollution Control as Climate Policy

Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2022

Revising the standards will also help address air pollution. Oddly, while many people have written about how climate policy will reduce harmful air pollutants, there isn’t much about the converse: the climate co-benefits of air pollution reductions. comes mostly from burning things, notably coal.

Pollution Control

Pollution Control Ozone Fossil Fuels Air Pollution

Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

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.”

Clean Air Act

Clean Air Act Air Pollution Climate Change Regulations

Environmental Professionals Connection

Ask a Scientist: UCS Transportation Program Adds Equitable Mobility to its Portfolio

Recentering Environmental Law: A Thought Experiment

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The Truck Industry’s Decades-long War on Stronger Pollution Controls

Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

EPA: Pennsylvania One Of 45 States, MSAs To Submit Priority Climate Action Plans As Part Of $5 Billion Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program

EPA: Power Plant, Pipeline, Cement, Paper, Glass And Other Industries In PA, Other States Face Tighter NOx Standards Under EPA’s Final Good Neighbor Rule

2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Will Have A Dramatic Impact on Texas and Louisiana

Federal Courts Need to Allow the EPA to Clear the Air

French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa

Court orders 42 Ugandan families evicted to make way for oil project

Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa

Climate groups call for funding withdrawal of TotalEnergies’ Mozambique project

South Africa gives go-ahead for TotalEnergies to drill offshore

Green groups target TotalEnergies over Tanzania, Uganda projects

How to Get to Zero Emissions at the Ports

Cities & the Inflation Reduction Act

The Inflation Reduction Act: Investments in Environmental Justice

Third District Addresses Significant CEQA Issues In Mixed Decision On Placer County’s EIR For Specific Plan/Rezoning Allowing Development of Martis Valley Timberlands

Gov. Shapiro, CNX Natural Gas Company Sign Statement Of Mutual Interests To Monitor Air Emissions At Drill Sites, Extend Safety Setbacks While Data Is Being Collected; DEP To Move Ahead With Some Reg Changes

Cars, Smog, and EPA

Environmental Perspectives

Pollution Control as Climate Policy

Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

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