Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For example, EPA rules limiting ozone pollution or carbon from power plants move the first lever, while the combined $1.25 The goal is to encourage distributed solar programs to reduce energy burden and ramp up a clean energy source critical to achieving climate goals and building community resilience.

Government

Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

The rule includes a sunset date, whereby the WPCO requirement expires after both an EPA finding that all SCAQMD air basins have attained the federal 2015 ozone standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) and a CARB finding that all SCAQMD air basins have attained the state ozone standard of 70 ppb. Further Actions.

Regulations

Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2022

These pollutants contribute to ground-level ozone, or smog, which EPA has shown has negative health impacts, including asthma attacks and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Zero- and low-emission vehicles also lower carbon dioxide emissions, helping to lessen climate change.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

23 In Western Region, Including Part Of PA; Aug. 23 In Western Region, Including Part Of PA; Aug.

Natural Gas

Washington Nature

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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. Of this money: $5.2 billion must go toward emissions reductions (i.e.

Carbon Monoxide

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Recent science doesn’t support this optimism, as new studies show that the increased release of Black Carbon, one of the most potent climate change forcers—as well as soot, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone from more traffic in the Arctic—could lead to a 20% increase in the global heating that is causing warmer ocean temperatures.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Gasoline and diesel vehicles generate 47 percent of nitrogen oxides emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to ground-level ozone. Related Articles: -- PA Solar Center To Honor 10 Organizations For Their Solar Energy Leadership In Chester County On Sept.

Nitrogen Oxides

Acoel

JUNE 21, 2022

According to RMI, an organization that advances clean energy projects, last year local governments across the U.S. launched 207 megawatts of energy from 21 landfill solar projects compared to just 21 total megawatts of energy from all such similar projects the year before.

Ozone

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.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Pennsylvania has approximately 840 such sites and operators such as Stronghold claim that burning it for energy is environmentally beneficial because it encourages the removal of these piles, and the waste ash can be used for fill and reclamation projects. Bitcoin mining does not help clean energy.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Pennsylvania has approximately 840 such sites and operators such as Stronghold claim that burning it for energy is environmentally beneficial because it encourages the removal of these piles, and the waste ash can be used for fill and reclamation projects. Bitcoin mining does not help clean energy.

Climate Change

Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

Shifting toward low-carbon clean energy requires major investments in electricity and hydrogen. Particulate matter harms lungs and hearts, while nitrogen oxide compounds contribute to ozone pollution and other health impacts. Fuels : About 86 percent of transportation fuel is petroleum.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Hydrogen is an indirect greenhouse gas that can lead to the formation of ozone and methane. Conclusion There is no silver bullet to addressing emissions reduction; it will require consideration and advancement of a range of policies and standards, including clean hydrogen and carbon capture with appropriate priorities and safeguards.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

Bakersfield, Fresno, and Visalia are consistently ranked as cities with the worst particulate and ozone pollution , according to the American Lung Association. and ozone concentrations highlighting air quality issues in the Central Valley. Annual average PM2.5 Graphics from CalEnviroScreen 4.0

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Instead of investing in clean energy, the fossil fuel industry perpetuates the problem and erodes public trust. Fossil fuel emissions, such as particulate matter and ozone, contribute to respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, as well as deaths. billion on advertising.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). I’ll start off with the good.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Hydrogen’s supply-side has been buttressed by incentives from state and federal governments, refineries and utilities looking to extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure, and renewable energy companies seeking to take advantage of the huge amounts of clean energy needed to produce green hydrogen.

Natural Gas

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. For coal-fired power, the economic case has been bleak for a long time now, which has brought US coal-fired generation down to less than half of its 2010 level.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Senate next voting day October 2, 3, 4 [Unless Sooner Recalled] -- Committee Schedule House next voting day September 26, 27; October 2, 3, 4, 16 [Unless Sooner Recalled] -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 10:00: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 1474 (Ciresi-D-Montgomery) expanding (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2023

Annual Symposium To Focus On Electric Power Transformation - Energy, Environment, Policy & Technology Sept. 26-27 In Pittsburgh [PaEN] -- TribLive: Sen.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2023

Casey Hopes Tax Credits For Clean Energy Projects Can Boost PA’s Coal Communities -- 15 Western PA Environmental Organizations Call On Gov.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

This is to say nothing of the other respiratory illnesses caused or exacerbated by smog (ozone), another dangerous byproduct of fossil fuels, or the risks borne by the 310,896 PA kids who attend school within a half mile of an oil and gas facility.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Take The Agrisolar Survey To Help Identify Policy Issues, Educational Needs -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: State Gets $4 Million In Federal Funding For Rural Renewable Energy Projects -- PA Solar Center Webinar Nov. 15 To Celebrate America Recycles Day [PaEN] -- CleanScapes Hosts Nov.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2022

PaEN] -- Bay Journal: With Waters Rising, Baltimore Eyes $138 Million Plan To Limit Coastal Flood Damage -- Reuters: EPA To Use Limits On Ozone, Coal Ash To Encourage Retirement Of Remaining Coal-Fired Power Plants After U.S. Louis And Kentucky -- Pennsylvanians It Will Flood Here: Are You Prepared? Get Flood Insurance Now!

Natural Gas

ESA

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Antarctic ozone hole shrinks slightly – The Hill. Chief of Department of Energy’s science wing envisions it as an engine of change – Science. War in Ukraine Likely to Speed, Not Slow, Shift to Clean Energy, I.E.A. More News: Readout: OSTP, CEQ, and CPO Host Roundtables on Nature-based Solutions – White House.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

Justice40ward Toxic Tours are happening all over the country in an effort to educate folks, including federal government employees, about the Biden Administration Justice40 goal to prioritize 40 percent of federal investments in clean energy, energy efficiency, clean transit, clean water infrastructure, remediation of legacy pollution, etc.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Because methane contributes to ozone pollution, emissions cause immediate health effects as well as warming effects. This program can cushion the economic impact of the transition to clean energy. I’ve rethought that conclusion, however for a combination of policy and political economy reasons. According to the U.N., “a

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2022

Other States/National/International -- Utility Dive: EPA Regional Ozone Proposal Threatens Electric Reliability: RTOs, State Utility Regulators PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh-Area Man Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On U.S. Steel Meets U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

Natural Gas

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Energy Conservation. We live in an age of dwindling fossil fuels and inaction on renewable energy. Also, with many species going extinct in the industrial age and many more threatened with extinction to the extent that there soon became an official list (16) , conservation won out with the same elements of preservation.

Conservation

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In an unpublished judgment, the court rejected the petitioners’ other NEPA arguments regarding project design and capacity and cumulative ozone impacts. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , No. Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v. 20-1045 (D.C. 3, 2021); Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v.

2021

ESA

MAY 4, 2023

Members of the House Science Committee introduced bipartisan bills aimed at increasing collaboration between NASA and the Department of Energy ( R. 2988 ) and the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy ( H.R.

2023

Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2022

One workaround would be for California to sharply increase the stringency of its regulations for particulate and ozone-producing emissions by vehicles, which it would still have the right to do. This would also probably eliminate the waiver that allows California to issue regulations of its own.

Fossil Fuels

ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

This body will review the EPA’s scientific review of current ozone pollution standards. In 2019, the Trump administration opted to keep ozone pollution standards the same. The Biden administration announced this is it revisiting that decision in 2021. ESA Correspondence for Policymakers. 18, 2021).

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agencys final rule (October 10, 2024) regulating ozone-depleting substances. The Environmental Protection Agencys interim final rule (November 6, 2024) on the federal Good Neighbor Plan for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

2024

Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

More than 180 local governments nationwide have committed to 100% clean energy, and many more have set ambitious renewable energy goals that fall short of a complete transition. entered into more than 70 contracts to procure renewable energy, totaling more than 13,000 megawatts. Last year, local governments in the U.S.

Clean Air Act

ESA

MAY 23, 2022

ESC – Statement to the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board On the Critical Role the DOE Office of Science Plays in Responding to the Climate Challenge and Clean Energy Transition (Jan. EPA – Release of Draft Policy Assessment for the Reconsideration of the Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

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