Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

We’ve made progress The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) contribute significantly towards the US’s 2030 climate targets (50-52% reduction of global warming emissions below 2005 levels) and exceed these targets by 2035.

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Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The purpose of WHO’s air quality guidelines, in particular, is to provide global guidance on key air pollutants that pose health risks and establish both short and long-term exposure thresholds based on scientific evidence. Why Has the WHO Updated their Air Quality Guidelines? Key Takeaways. g/m 3 to 5 ?g/m

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Where, at the beginning, there was really only one input parameter (the CO 2 concentration) that needed to be coordinated, the inputs have now broadened to include myriad forcings related to other greenhouse gases, air pollution, land surface change, ozone, the sun, volcanoes, irrigation, meltwater etc.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Fernandez-Bou/UCS Although the Central Valley doesn’t directly experience wildfires, the region’s communities suffer indirectly from air pollution caused by smoke from fires elsewhere in the state. Reducing the incidence of severe wildfires would indirectly benefit people in the Central Valley by improving air quality.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Over the past year, precisely as our ability to identify the specific magnitude of action required to hit 2030 climate targets of 50-52 percent below 2005 levels has resolved into ever clearer view, the range of viable pathways for meeting those targets has consistently and considerably narrowed. No pivoting, just pivotal.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

From 1960 to 2005, coal use grew more or less steadily by 18 million tons per year. It then tread water for a few years and began a steep decline in 2008, going from half of U.S. electricity to about one-fifth today. What happened in the middle of the Bush Administration to halt growth?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

Those scenarios showed that the IRA would accelerate solar and wind deployment and reduce carbon emissions to 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Electricity Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 264

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

DTE’s goal is to reach “net-zero” emissions by 2050 while reducing its carbon emissions from 2005 levels 65 percent by 2028, 85 percent by 2035, and 90 percent by 2040. What’s in DTE’s proposed plan?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2005 ) -- Coterra Energy, Inc. - PA Bulletin, page 2005 ) -- EQT Corporation - Pale Ale Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with aluminum, barium, boron, chloride, iron, lithium, manganese, selenium, strontium, vanadium, and zinc in Jackson Twp., Susquehanna County. (

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2024

Since 2005, PHS has collaborated with these local partners to reforest stream corridors, termed “riparian buffers,” and other areas. Increased tree canopy helps improve water quality and provide additional environmental benefits such as improved air quality.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A decade later, in 2005, the agency contemplated banning new commercial sterilizers from using the gas, forcing them to use alternatives. EN: Ethylene oxide is just one of 188 hazardous air pollutants the EPA regulates, and the agency typically regulates them in isolation—despite the fact that people are exposed to multiple toxins.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

o C in 2100, relative to pre-industrial times, is still avoidable, but whether or not we are able to stay within these limits and avert catastrophic climate change depends on achieving our climate goals of emissions reductions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels in 2030, on the way to net-zero emissions in 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

These include contamination of surface or groundwater, air pollution or soil degradation. Additionally, direct and fugitive air emissions from oil and gas well sites can worsen local air quality and have the potential to increase health risks among residents living nearby (i.e., within one-half mile).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Since global and local pollutants are often byproducts of the same activities, mitigation policies for global warming emissions have the potential to simultaneously mitigate local air pollution 2. One good example of the nexus between global warming and local pollution is ground-level ozone. Bermix Studio/Unsplash PM2.5:

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 16, 2019

These leaks are only a fraction of the 90,000 barrels spilled in Louisiana in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. Flooding from Hurricanes Harvey also triggered industrial facilities to spew air pollution during electrical failures, resultant accidents, and unexpected shut-downs. mile radius.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Here’s why the claims are wrong: UCS has pointed out that while gas burns cleaner than coal at a power plant, it is far from a “clean” fuel because it still results in significant toxic air pollution. Federal agencies are currently in the process of implementing the various IRA provisions.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

For the first time since 2005, we'll add three new parks to our national award-winning system to bring our total to 124. Cleaner trucks, buses, and trains are reducing air pollution in the state, and more than 1,500 electric vehicle charging plugs have been installed, many of them in environmental justice communities.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

These air quality impacts are minimal compared with the major ozone reductions resulting from the 1998 SIP Call, which resulted in more than 80,000 megawatts of coal capacity being retrofitted with SCRs. The 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) provided smaller but significant air quality improvements following its implementation in 2010.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The issues on appeal were limited to the adequacy of certain aspects of the project EIR’s analyses of GHGs and criteria air pollutants. Tsakopoulos Investments, LLC v. County of Sacramento, et al. Mather South, LLC, et al, Real Parties ) (2023) Cal.App.5

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Two programs—Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants and Driving PA Forward—provide funding to support purchases of electric vehicles and installation of charging stations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. We've funded over 1,000 chargers?installed million in just the past five years!

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

On August 7, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Act), which would provide about $369 billion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below their 2005 levels by 2030 as well as reduce carbon emissions and invest in renewable energy. Tax Credits.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

air pollution. , 3d 745,755 (Alaska 2005). [23]. 3d 745, 755 (Alaska 2005)). [25]. “as trustee of the environment for the present and future generations”; and to “conserve, improve, and protect its natural resources and environment and control water, land, and. and uses trust principles to define state duties. [15].

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The World Health Organization estimates that four million people die every year from indoor air pollution from cooking on inefficient and unhealthy stoves using firewood, coal, kerosene, or animal dung. Cooking with biogas improves indoor air quality significantly. A total of 6.5

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Those who work on soil issues have long hoped for a new study, with well-known soil scientists calling for one as early as 2005, at the government’s annual Two Sessions meetings. The last four decades have seen rapid, resource-intensive economic growth in China. Rapid acidification. meaning a 2.2-fold fold increase in acidity.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

The following factsheet on asthma and air pollution from natural gas facilities was compiled by the Environmental Health Project -- Asthma is a chronic disease that affects breathing. Asthma attacks, also known as exacerbations, may be triggered by indoor and outdoor air pollution, stress, and other physical and environmental factors.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

part 63, Subpart HH, “NESHAP (National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants) for Source Categories from Oil and Natural Gas Production Facilities” to include the regulation of area sources. By: Clare Bienvenu On January 3, 2007, EPA promulgated a final rule amending 40 C.F.R. See 72 Fed.Reg. 26 (January 3, 2007).

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