Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trump is targeting both federal and CA vehicle standards in his recent executive order standards that not only reduce climate emissions but also slash air pollutants like nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. Undermining these rules will have major negative environmental, health, energy, and consumer impacts. auto industry.

Nitrogen Oxides

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2025

The heavy rail alternatives will similarly reduce nitrogen oxide pollution three times as much as the monorail. That is not the law. There is ample case law to the effect that a lead agency need not adopt the “environmentally superior alternative.” Analysis of particulate matter finds the same thing.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2390 ) The station is classified as a major facility for RACT purposes having the potential to emit greater than 100 tons per year of nitrogen oxide (NOx) and 50 tons per year of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions.

Nitrogen Oxides

Legal Planet

APRIL 10, 2025

This week saw a flurry of stories at the intersection of federal actions, tariff policy, and rule of law concerns How Trumps on-again, off-again tariff threats will raise the costs of building renewable energy projects in the U.S. Energy stories that caught my eye Puerto Rico has the least reliable energy system of any place in the U.S.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2025

Cleaner cars, cleaner air Our Cleaner Cars, Cleaner Air Report showed that while pre-2004 cars make up fewer than 20% of the cars on the road, they are responsible for the majority of tailpipe pollution because they produce higher amounts of lung-damaging particulate pollution and contribute significantly more smog-forming nitrogen oxide emissions.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

The rules are part of the SCAQMD’s strategy to reduce the emission of harmful nitrogen oxides (NOx) and fine particles, which contribute to smog. The Trump administration’s Department of Justice is yet again showing its total ignorance and utter disregard for the law with this frivolous letter,” Vespa wrote.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 16, 2025

If EPA were trying to follow the law, it wouldn’t have to cook up such elaborately outrageous arguments. Moreover, the agency was also forced to report the specific fact that children would be harmed by resulting increases in carbon, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, mercury, and hazardous air pollutants.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

they were approved by the legislature and are now sitting on Newsom’s desk, awaiting his signature to become law. Luckily, these new challenges have proven solutions and – look at that! These dirty vehicles are overrepresented in low-income neighborhoods and disproportionately impact the health of these already overburdened communities.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But while greenhouse gas emissions may be reduced, a delivery fulfilled by a diesel-burning truck may lead to increases in emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and lung-damaging particulate matter.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 20, 2024

To supercharge the transition to clean school buses, Congress amended and reinvigorated the Clean School Bus Program with a $5 billion dollars over 5 years investment as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law). Why not 100 percent?

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Municipal zoning laws, meanwhile, allowed companies to build power plants and other industrial facilities in those same neighborhoods. Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality. EN: US infrastructure planning has a long history of discrimination.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Had the court ruled fully in favor of the EPA— or not taken the case at all —a much more meaningful dent in power plant carbon emissions would be within reach, while also delivering much greater reductions in other dangerous co-pollutants from burning fossil fuels such as particulate matter, mercury, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Emissions which create smog and impact human health can also be mitigated; sulfur oxides can be reduced by 89% and nitrogen oxides by 78%. EV battery recycling policy in the United States to-date consists of investment in recycling research, development, and demonstration, such as in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Eliminating gasoline combustion also means getting rid of harmful pollutant emissions like nitrogen oxides and reactive organic gases. That’s less than a quarter of the emissions per mile of the average gasoline car on the road in California (29 mpg).

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The action against Shell Chemical Appalachia’s plant, located in Potter Township, is for illegal emissions of volatile organic compounds (or VOCs), which contribute to smog and can cause nausea, nerve damage, and other health problems, as well as nitrogen oxides, which can trigger asthma attacks and respiratory illness.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2022

Also on the agenda is a final regulation setting RACT (Reasonably Available Control Technology Standards) for major sources of nitrogen oxides. DEP said it complied with Act 40 of 2017 by including what the law required at the proposed rulemaking stage of this regulation. Read More here.

Nitrogen Oxides

Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As described in Latham’s previous reporting on the rulemaking [iii] and adoption [iv] of Rule 2305, the regulation applies to warehouses in the South Coast Air Basin [v] of 100,000 square feet or more and aims to reduce regional nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions and local diesel particulate matter emissions. i] Case No.: 2:21-cv-6341. [ii]

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The consent order and agreement included 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 an additional $5 million was allocated to a Beaver County Environmental Mitigation Community Fund. However, in Paragraph 14.b Paragraph 14.b on June 20, 2023 -- $1,046,766.94

2023

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Board also approved a final regulation setting RACT (Reasonably Available Control Technology Standards) for major sources of nitrogen oxides. DEP said it complied with Act 40 of 2017 by including what the law required at the proposed rulemaking stage of this regulation. Read More here.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 29, 2023

While DEP proposed the less protective standard as directed by law, it also proposed an update to the Water Quality Toxics standard for manganese. The amendment placed nearly all the burden for the treatment of manganese pollution on those using the water rather than polluting it. Read more here. Read more here.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

The very least this international corporation can do is to follow the law and not make Pennsylvania taxpayers breathe in their illegal pollution,” said Sarah Kula, attorney for the Environmental Integrity Project. Joseph Minott, Executive Director of the Clean Air Council, said: “Shell’s persistent law-breaking must end.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

The emissions from these trucks, such as particulate matter & nitrogen oxides, can contribute to poor air quality in these communities. This target has been incorporated into the National Climate Agreement, a binding law that ensures political commitment to implementation.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The Clean Air Council and the Environmental Integrity Project asked DEP to temporarily halt operations of the Shell Polymers Monaca plant in Beaver County until the company can demonstrate it can operate in compliance with pollution control laws.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The tax credits do not consider other fundamental dimensions of “clean,” such as emissions of health-harming pollution like nitrogen oxides or particulate matter. The underlying statute defines “clean” to mean that the facility GHG emissions rate—i.e.,

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The last minute change in law was made without any notice in a budget-related bill that was a favor to the coal industry and shifts the burden for treating manganese discharges from mine sites and other sources from those who pollute the water to those using the water, like public water suppliers. Read more here. Read More here.

Regulations

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

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

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Current nitrogen oxide limits are “badly out of date and come nowhere near reflecting the best emission limits achievable,” according to the Environmental Defense Fund and Sierra Club. Read the full story at Utility Dive.

Nitrogen Oxides

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

Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

The WAIRE Program essentially requires warehouse operators to take actions to electrify warehouse activities and the trucks that visit warehouses in order to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and diesel particulate matter (DPM) emissions.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

On November 12, the Environmental Quality Board approved for public comment a proposed regulation on notification of spills and corrections to Air Quality regulations on RACT requirements for nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds. Martin Causer (R-Cameron). Also approved was a final-omitted regulations on noncoal mine blasting.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2023

As a general rule (Section A.9)

Natural Gas

The Energy Law

DECEMBER 27, 2023

To comply with the 2015 SIP Call rule, Louisiana had proposed revising its SIP by removing LAC 33:III.2201.C.8, 8, which described an SSM period exemption, and adding a new section, LAC 33:III.2201.K K Startup and Shutdown, in its place. LAC 33:III.2201.K

2015

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. million settlement with Volkswagen.

Electricity

Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012.

Ozone

The Energy Law

AUGUST 24, 2012

Under the rule, certain “upwind” states were required to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) and nitrogen oxides (NO x ), based on those states’ contributions to downwind states’ air quality problems. Industry strongly criticized CSAPR for its draconian reductions in allowable power plant emissions.

Air Pollution

The Energy Law

JULY 1, 2013

The CSAPR sets limits on sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants in 28 upwind states in the eastern part of the country. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the American Lung Association in the litigation involving EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (“CSAPR”). On August 21, 2012, in a 2-1 decision, the D.C.

Air Pollution