PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Shell must be held accountable under the law and take appropriate steps to prevent illegal pollution going forward.” There must be strict penalties to deter this clear violation of the laws.” We can’t allow these pollution events to become the cost of doing business.

Air Pollution

Law and Environment

MAY 4, 2023

SMR requires steam, heat, and pressure to convert methane (in natural gas) to hydrogen and carbon monoxide. SMR is a high-carbon process that uses fossil fuels for process heat. The post Clean Hydrogen: How It’s Produced and What We Can Do with It first appeared on Law and the Environment. How is hydrogen produced today?

Carbon Monoxide

Washington Nature

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As the law takes effect this winter, we all — including you! — A key critique of California's Cap & Trade program has been that it hasn’t reduced health-harming criteria pollutants , including carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, and particulates. HELPING OUR COMMUNITIES BREATHE EASIER.

Carbon Monoxide

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2023

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Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Pollutants of concern emitted by the facility include particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, and hazardous air pollutants, among others. "We Click Here for a copy of EPA’s order. Posted: February 12, 2024] PA Environment Digest

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The consent order and agreement included $10 million in penalties -- a $4,935,023 penalty to the DEP Clean Air Fund (25% of which was directed to the host community as required by law) and $5 million was allocated to a Beaver County Environmental Mitigation Community Fund. However, in Paragraph 14.b Paragraph 14.b

2023

PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2023

“Pennsylvanians have a constitutional right to clean air and pure water, and my Administration will hold all companies – no matter how big or small – accountable when they violate the laws and regulations protecting our air and water,” said Gov. Josh Shapiro. Shell recognizes that as a company, it must do better, and this $6.2

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2023

Diversified Energy] Goes Bankrupt? -- Bob Donnan’s Blog: UPMC, Allegheny Health Network Promote Natural Gas Despite Known Health Risks -- UGI Urges Natural Gas Customers To Recognize Signs Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning From Fuel-Burning Appliances During Heating Season -- The Guardian: U.S.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2023

As a general rule (Section A.9)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The good news is that thanks to unprecedented federal funding, financing and incentives in the [federal] Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, we have begun to deploy the technologies and approaches needed to advance industrial decarbonization across the country and especially here in Pennsylvania and the Appalachian Region.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The contaminants looked at in that study were primarily carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, formaldehyde, but not HAPS. Read more here. Read more here. Billion Boost To PA Economy, Help Farmers As Senate Committee Meets Sept. 20 [PaEN] [Posted: September 21, 2022] PA Environment Digest

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

By reducing nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants from the transportation sector, we make the air quality healthier in our communities, while helping to slow down climate change and its impacts,” Ziadeh added.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

Air Pollution Air pollutants such as carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are released from various stages of shale gas development.

Air Pollution

Vorys Law

MAY 20, 2021

On May 17, 2021, Ohio EPA issued public notice of draft revisions to Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) Chapter 3745-21, “Carbon Monoxide, Photochemically Reactive Materials, Hydrocarbons, and Related Materials Standards.” Ohio EPA then published notice of draft revisions to the NOx RACT rule (OAC 3745-110) on May 20, 2021.

Ozone

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A: A few laws explicitly require cost-benefit analysis or at least something along those lines. Those laws are a minority. There are a few laws that actually prohibit agencies from considering costs, but agencies do cost-benefit analysis when implementing those laws for informational purposes.

Carbon Monoxide

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. Will the law help transit agencies deal with their looming budget crises?

Nitrogen Oxides

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I attended the climate conference as part of the UCLA Law delegation. To me, environmental law and climate policy are about people, protecting people, and advocating alongside those disproportionately affected by climate change. candidate (‘24) at UCLA Law. Indeed, it was a first. I was wrong. Meleana Chun-Moy is a J.D.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2024

This growing network of warehouses and the freight vehicles that serve them contribute significantly to a community’s greenhouse gas emissions and exposure to harmful pollutants like nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and particulate matter.

Nitrogen Oxides

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It replaced an earlier, more dangerous, product called “town gas” or “coal gas,” which consisted mainly of hydrogen and carbon monoxide and was produced by heating coal in. Isn’t this an Environmental Law blog? the absence of air. Putting it all together. This all leads to a couple of important points for greenhouse-gas control.

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We have been subjected to continual gas inhalation, methanol byproducts, carbon monoxide, H2S [hydrogen sulfide] gas, etc., Myself, Eric Steppe, was directly exposed to carbon monoxide gas and H2S gas. Over the past year, we have experienced working in an unsafe work environment.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In its first year of operations, Shell exceeded four air permits limits for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, and hazardous air pollutants. Shell can’t operate safely and that’s why we expect PA DEP to hold Shell to at least operate within the law,” said anaïs peterson of Earthworks.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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Natural Gas

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). Agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the raising of livestock and growth of crops for human consumption represent 14% of global GHG emissions.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

I named the Priority Pollutants a moment ago, which are 129 chemicals of interest under the Clean Water Act, RCRA, one of two federal laws governing hazardous wastes has several hundred “Appendix IX” groundwater monitoring compounds. I will organize my discussion by key laws. Each law has thousands of regulations.

Clean Water Act

Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Between 1980 and 2018, US carbon monoxide levels decreased by 83 percent, lead by 99 percent, nitrogen dioxide by 61 percent, ozone by 31 percent, and sulfur dioxide by 91 percent. In May, a California civil rights coalition filed a lawsuit against the state to prevent implementation of climate law aimed at reducing driving.

2020

Environment, Law, and History

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Clean Air Act programs have lowered levels of six common pollutants — particles, ozone, lead, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide — as well as numerous toxic pollutants. The emissions reductions have led to dramatic improvements in the quality of the air that we breathe.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, they determined that six so-called “ criteria air pollutants ”—particulate matter, ground-level ozone, carbon monoxide, lead, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide—were so dangerous they required a rigorous and regularly updated process of assessment and policymaking.

Air Pollution