Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. In India, a plan to build a fleet of 15 immense 4,000-megawatt coal-fired plants collapsed while utilities were busy installing wind and solar installations at a frantic pace.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

Eric Katz at Government Executive obtained the first 200 submissions from park visitors to the National Park Service and they are mostly people imploring NPS not to censor history. Circuit,” reports Bloomberg Law. My colleague Julia Stein helped lead the UCLA research team that supported the independent commission.

Clean Energy

Circle of Blue

MARCH 19, 2025

Now a $314-million-a-year global organization with 1000 employees, EDF went on to influence pivotal environmental achievements, among them the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, and then helping the agency ban DDT and close the ozone hole.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

Although warehouses themselves are often not significant sources of air pollution, they attract high concentrations of heavy-duty trucks, which are the nations largest source of nitrogen oxides, a key contributor to ground-level ozone pollution.

Ground-Level Ozone

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

has created myriad issues for environmental journalists, including the silencing of sources people inside and outside of government who typically help the flow of trustworthy information reach audiences. When the federal government retreats, cities, counties and states pick up the slack. Same thing, different words. More Energy!

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- Awards/Recognition -- Saint Vincent College: Angela Belli Receives 2025 PA Association of Environmental Educators Keystone Award -- Post-Gazette: Local Elementary Students Draw, Clean Up In Keep PA Beautiful Litter Hawk Youth Award Program (..)

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Critic Says, We Want To Be A Little More Cautious -- PA Capital-Star: FERC Approves Shapiros PJM Settlement To Halt Runaway Electricity Prices -- DelawareValleyJournal.com: Grid Operator PJM Rejects Accusations Its Slow-Rolling Renewable Energy Generation -- PennWATCH: Allegheny Conference, Pittsburgh Regional Building Trades Council Join Energy Future (..)

Nuclear Power

Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

On Friday, EPA announced that it was reconsidering its 2020 decision to leave the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone unchanged. However, EPA stated that it: will reconsider the decision to retain the ozone NAAQS in a manner that adheres to rigorous standards of scientific integrity. Still whistling in the wind , I fear.

Ozone

Law and Environment

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today, the New York Times reported that a recent assessment shows that the world is on track to reach pre-1980 levels of upper atmosphere ozone by roughly 2040. Especially when it’s good news about effective international cooperation on environmental protection issues. . There was no punishment.

Ozone

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. How will governments deal with private startups if they continue to perform unscientific, unregulated experiments? A weather balloon.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. This is a major federal law that governs if a chemical will be regulated, limited, or even banned.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

During my more than two decades of federal service, I learned many things about the function of government. For example, EPA rules limiting ozone pollution or carbon from power plants move the first lever, while the combined $1.25 Some novel approaches for all of federal government come from intense consultation with communities.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We have some of the dirtiest air anywhere, and the only way it gets better is when the government steps in and limits the particulates and VOCs and other pollutants that companies can get away with. We in Colorado have many days of problematic ozone. As a person in SoCal with asthma, cleaner air is especially important. California.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These components are also being assessed and used in regulatory decision-making by some government agencies at the local, state, or federal level. For example, compliance demonstrations for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are based on multi-source analyses.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

It then disapproved plans that had been submitted by state governments much earlier and issued its own plan covering sources in 23 upwind states. The Court’s Ruling Justice Gorsuch, a fierce skeptic of government regulation, wrote the opinion for the Court. It shows her willingness to take EPA’s arguments seriously.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

This funding, provided by the Inflation Reduction Act , is available to a wide variety of entities, including port authorities, local and tribal governments, and regional air quality agencies as well as businesses and non-profits that partner or collaborate with these public entities.

Air Pollution

Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

SCAQMD will issue solicitations for projects to be funded by the WAIRE Mitigation Program, and awards of funds must be presented to the SCAQMD Governing Board for approval at least annually. These state and federal standards require areas to reach certain ambient concentrations of ozone to be considered in “attainment.”

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

You can compare this to ozone which has a half-life on the order of minutes, and some PFAS chemicals that have a half-life in air on the order of several years. There are two ways that government agencies can work to reduce toxic air emissions, through regulations or through voluntary pollution reduction measures. What can be done?

2016

Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 The District is targeting formal adoption of Proposed Rule 2305 at its May 1, 2020, Governing Board meeting. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Endnotes. [1]

Ozone

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 4, 2023

Trucks and buses on California’s roads and highways are responsible for the majority of lung-damaging fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions, and a sizable amount of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions as well. Both the state and federal governments have committed billions of dollars to spur this work.

Nitrogen Oxides

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

Government

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

After the 2014 shutdown Toledo spent $53 million to install an ozone treatment system at the city’s drinking water plant to safeguard customers from algal toxins, said Andrew McClure, the plant’s administrator. Then there is the ongoing cost of putting that equipment to work.

2014

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Gasoline and diesel vehicles generate 47 percent of nitrogen oxides emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to ground-level ozone. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, helping to address climate change. The transportation sector makes up 22 percent of Pennsylvania’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

29 [PaEN] -- Observer-Reporter: Hydropower Makes Splash As Washington & Jefferson College Center Resumes Series -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Duquesne Light Reaches Last-Minute Deal With Union To Avoid Strike -- TribLive Guest Essay: Manufacturers Need Pragmatism From EPA On Ozone Pollution Rule - By Former Rep.

Natural Gas

Breezometer

JULY 3, 2021

Studies have also shown that fireworks can create a ‘burst’ of ozone formation, also harmful to human health. The German government announced a €500m investment towards improving ventilation systems in public buildings to help stop COVID-19 spread. This can cause a rapid impact on the surrounding air quality.

Ozone

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But they also could plausibly be adopted within a few years if governments are serious about ramping up their ambition, so do not necessarily meet the aim of proposing something radical enough to move the debate. They also call for cutting short-lived climate forcers even faster than now being pursued. So, where’s the radicalism?

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Billion In Winter Storm Elliot Nonperformance Penalties; Details Confidential Now But Will Be Made Public Later In September -- PA Federation Of Sportsmen & Conservationists Oppose State Budget Bill Transfer Of $150 Million From Game Commission Fund To Clean Streams Fund -- DEP Hosts Sept.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

Instead, environmentalists were mainly concerned about the ozone layer, nuclear meltdown and chemical industrial pollution, the erosion of biodiversity and population explosion. In 2008, the year before I turned 30, the UK government introduced the world’s first legally binding climate change legislation the Climate Change Act.

Fossil Fuels

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

Law Columbia

JULY 24, 2025

In the most significant development in international climate law since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the ICJ outlined numerous obligations that could significantly shape the contours of international environmental law and global climate governance. 342-343).

Climate Change

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.

Carbon Monoxide

Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Motor vehicle exhaust is one big source of ground-level ozone or smog, fine particulate matter, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. Most of us spend much of our time inside, either working, doing chores, sleeping or being sedentary; one government estimate believes the average American spends 90% of their time indoors.

Ground-Level Ozone

Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I often think back to being a kid in the nineties when saving the ozone was taught as a shining example of international cooperation fueling innovation. But I was wrong to view this one event as a sign that justice is a foregone conclusion.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. Fully fund and staff government agencies that protect public health. There's often large withdrawals of surface water.

Natural Gas

Acoel

JUNE 21, 2022

Pairing renewable projects with landfills is a true opportunity for industry and government to partner for the common good. According to RMI, an organization that advances clean energy projects, last year local governments across the U.S. These indexes take various environmental factors (ex: ozone, PM, Superfund, etc.)

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

Transportation generates 47 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to the formation of ground-level ozone. Local governments, schools, businesses, and organizations may apply for AFIG funding. It also supports the installation of fueling stations for these vehicles.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We can turn in the direction of healthier air quality and slow down climate change by switching to electric vehicles, whether we're government officials, business owners, school administrators, community leaders, or individual consumers. It’s free for public use and distribution.

Nitrogen Oxides