Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

As a result of continuing progress on regulations, the air-polluting emissions of new passenger vehicles currently for sale are thankfully much lower than those of older vehicles. These older vehicles are responsible for 73% of all nitrogen oxide exhaust from passenger vehicles and 64% of reactive organic gases.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

and numerous affiliated companies (collectively, GWRSI) for violation of Clean Air Act (CAA) locomotive regulations. The locomotives at issue in this settlement burn diesel fuel which produces significant emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and fine particulate matter. microns has been shown to cause lung damage and cancer.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality. Permitting them to violate these critical regulations means taxpayers have to shoulder the cost of monitoring, remediation, and cleanup, if they happen at all. First, there’s air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2023

On May 4, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it will receive public comments and host a May 17 in-person public hearing regarding a plan approval application for Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT III) requirements for Covanta Delaware Valley, LP, a waste to energy facility in the City of Chester, Delaware County.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. What can be done?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Coming off its recent decision requiring all new passenger cars and trucks be zero-emission by 2035, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is developing a first-of-its-kind regulation to reduce emissions from heavy-duty vehicles like delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. But for many of these use-cases, hydrogen doesn’t do the job particularly well, at least as compared to existing technology.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 21, 2022

The analyses did not reveal any science-based evidence that nuclear energy does more harm to human health or to the environment than other electricity production technologies already included in the Taxonomy as activities. The European Commission commissioned a thorough review of nuclear energy by the Joint Research Centre (JRC).

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

A local air district approved a rule requiring warehouses to adopt clean technologies or pay a mitigation fee. At a contentious board hearing on May 7, 2021, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) approved a first-in-the-nation rule to regulate trucking emissions from warehouses by a 9-4 vote. By Joshua T.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

But in an effort to skirt legal challenges, the new rule bases its limits largely on carbon capture and sequestration (“CCS”) and hydrogen co-firing such that individual power plants are able to continue operation if they adopt the appropriate control technologies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2022

The rapid growth in heavy-duty electric vehicle technology is encouraging. Often an oddity when considering environmental goals, manufacturers seem to be well ahead of regulators when it comes to electrification. It’s a vital missed opportunity that regulators are so out of step with the technology in this realm.

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Breezometer

JUNE 21, 2021

Filtration works by targeting pollutants such as Particulate Matter and removing them from the environment while purification addresses gas-phase pollutants such as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Carbon Monoxide (CO), and Nitrogen Oxides (NOx). Rising IAQ Standards & Regulation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2024

This is a common sense step that relies on affordable, proven technology already in use in millions of gasoline vehicles outside the US. The overall combination of reductions in particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and other air pollutants are expected to deliver $13 billion in annual health benefits. One thing to keep in mind.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Instead, the Court has ruled that, though the agency can still regulate carbon emissions, it must do so narrowly and set standards solely based on options available at individual power plant facilities, such as efficiency measures to improve plant-level heat rates.

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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. In other words, if an action was required for compliance with a regulation, then WAIRE Points cannot be generated.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2022

18 On Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater; Methane Regs, Conventional Regs, Well Plugging, More Environmental Health Project: Setback Distances And The Regulations We Need To Protect Public Health From Oil & Gas Facilities Ohio River Valley Institute: 6% Population Loss, 3.3%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In response, Congress put in place regulations to cut oil use from new passenger vehicles, known as the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program. Shortly thereafter, the Supreme Court ruled that EPA had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars and trucks under Massachusetts v.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2022

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet August 9 final regulation setting a science-based manganese standard of 0.3mg/L as a Water Quality Criteria for Toxic Substances to protect public health and environment and make the point of compliance for the standard at the point of discharge into a river or stream. Read More here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

However, automakers are pushing to weaken the stringency and test requirements of the proposal sufficiently such that this common-sense emissions-reducing technology remains on the shelf in the U.S. In 2040, even including relevant technology and charger costs, Alt 1+ would save drivers $86 billion—that’s $24 billion more than Alt 3.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2022

On August 9, the Environmental Quality Board voted 16 to 3 to approve a final regulation setting a science-based manganese standard of 0.3mg/L as a Water Quality Criteria for Toxic Substances to protect public health and environment and make the point of compliance for the standard at the point of discharge into a river or stream.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Setting a “multi-pollutant” standard as EPA has proposed for light-duty vehicles drives simultaneously emissions reductions from both the best available emissions-reducing technologies for all pollutants, whether for gasoline-powered vehicles (e.g.,

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 27, 2023

Dan Farber at Legal Planet recently posted on "Cars, Smog, and EPA" An excerpt: For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx [nitrogen oxides] standards for new cars itself. That’s quite different from the standards for industrial pollution sources, which Congress has always delegated to EPA.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The transportation sector is also a substantial source of nitrogen oxides and particulates, both of which are dangerous to human health. EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2022

Fossil-fueled trucks, vans, and buses are a major source of climate-disrupting greenhouse gas emissions and nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM), and hazardous air pollutants that harm public health. In 2021, Quebec adopted a regulation requiring all new school buses to be electric.

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Nitrogen Oxides Electricity Fossil Fuels Regulations 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

A 2022 study in Environmental Science and Technology detected more than 20 volatile organic compounds, including hexane, toluene and benzene, in unburned stove gas. Regardless, industry-funded studies have generated enough controversy over the conclusions of government and independent studies to hold regulators at bay.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

EPA US Supreme Court decision in 2007 and the EPA’s follow-on Endangerment Finding and Cause or Contribute Finding in 2009, which ultimately set the stage for the agency to not only have the authority—but also the obligation—to regulate power plant carbon emissions. EPA Supreme Court decision in 2022. EPA’s 6-3 majority opinion.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Supreme Court reinstates Trump administration Clean Water Act regulation. Carbon dioxide removal — which encompasses methods ranging from natural processes like planting trees to technological solutions like direct air capture — is “unavoidable” to reach net-zero emissions, the authors said. Executive Branch. International.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Adding to the complexity, uncertainties regarding future costs abound: Among many others, how big will the affected population be in 100 years, and what technological advances may occur affecting climate resiliency? First, the SCC will be used to benchmark the benefits of agency regulations. Energy Regul. discount rate.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

2 trillion plan includes $50 billion to create a new technology directorate for NSF. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy forms Interagency Task Force on Scientific Integrity. . There is $180 billion pegged overall in the plan for investment in research and development and “technologies of the future.”.

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