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Hong Kong’s car pollution sensors help it clean its air in world first

New Scientist

Carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide pollution have fallen sharply in Hong Kong since it introduced a world-first scheme to detect and repair vehicles with the highest emissions

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DEP To Hold May 21 Meeting/Hearing On Renewal Of Air Quality Permit For Covanta Municipal Waste Combustion Units In Montgomery County

PA Environment Daily

tons per year (tpy) carbon monoxide, 0.008 tpy Lead, 93 tpy hydrogen chloride, 520.3 tpy nitrogen oxides, 0.0075 tpy Mercury, 53.1 tpy sulfur oxides, and 24.99 Montgomery County. ( PA Bulletin, page 1865 ) The potential emissions from the facility are as follows: 246.3 tpy particulate matter, 163.2

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DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For Cryptocurrency Power Generation Facility By Diversified Production, LLC At A Shale Gas Well In Elk County

PA Environment Daily

nitrogen oxides, 21.63 carbon monoxide, 5.61 This project would install four Waukesha engines (each rated at 1,680 bhp) controlled by non-selective catalytic reduction technology. Potential emissions from all sources after completion of the project are estimated to be-- in tons per year-- 0.46 Particluate 10 , and 3.39

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DEP: Shell Petrochemical Plant Pays Additional $2,671,044.75 In Civil Penalties For 12-Month Air Quality Violations After May 2023 Consent Order

PA Environment Daily

The pollutants included in these additional penalties were-- volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, hazardous air pollutants and “other pollutants,” excluding carbon dioxide emissions. Paragraph 14.b b of the May 24, 2023 Consent Order and Agreement-- -- $521,549.62

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. Cars and trucks are a lot cleaner than when I was growing up.

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DEP Invites comments On Proposed Title V Air Quality Permit For Monessen Coke (Coal) Plant, Westmoreland County

PA Environment Daily

PA Bulletin, page 1983 ) According to DEP, the annual facility-wide potential emissions are 1,423 tons of carbon monoxide, 775 tons of nitrogen oxides, 97 tons of volatile organic compounds, 97 tons of particulate matter, and 83 tons of PM10. It also emits 5.2 tons of hydrogen chloride, 3.7 tons of benzene, and 2.5

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DEP: Shell Petrochemical Plant Pays Additional $7,606,067.75 In Civil Penalties For 12-Month Air Quality Violations After May 2023 Consent Order

PA Environment Daily

The pollutants included in these additional penalties were-- volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, hazardous air pollutants and “other pollutants,” excluding carbon dioxide emissions. Paragraph 14.b b of the May 24, 2023 Consent Order and Agreement-- -- $4,935,023.00

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