Government Nitrogen Oxides Pollution Control 
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 3, 2025
UCS and others have been pushing strongly to make government support for hydrogen production, like tax credits, contingent on it being powered by new/incremental low-carbon sources, in the same general region, and with renewable electricity produced at the same time as the particular electrolyzer needs it.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 11, 2024
Just a year later, however, the industry encountered a potentially major obstacle: A study conducted by the government’s National Air Pollution Control Administration found a link between outdoor NO2 exposure and childhood respiratory problems. She then went on to rave about her gas clothes dryer and fireplace.
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Legal Planet
AUGUST 2, 2023
As my colleagues and I have explained , generation shifting is an ordinary consequence of pollution-control rules and is the easiest, cheapest, and best way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel-powered plants.
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. Cars and trucks are a lot cleaner than when I was growing up. Transit agencies in Washington, D.C.,
Legal Planet
AUGUST 22, 2023
States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Many pollutants cause cancer, pulmonary and heart diseases, neurological, reproductive, developmental, and immunological damage, and more. Examples are benzene, hydrofluoric acid, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and many, many other toxic pollutants. Refining uses many risky industrial processes.
Legal Planet
APRIL 24, 2025
ISRs are especially powerful because local air districts dont have very many effective ways to tackle pollution from mobile sources, which is typically the province of the federal government. ISRs have received relatively little attention from air regulators, too.
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