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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

Primarily, these have focused on the 2007 EPA regulations, which were the first step in the phase-in of diesel engine standards meant to cut particulate emissions by more than 80 percent and smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NO X ) emissions by 90 percent. Industry can’t even agree with itself about this effect. Source: ERM 2022 ).

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Senate Hearing: Body Of Evidence Is 'Large, Growing,’ ‘Consistent’ And 'Compelling' That Shale Gas Development Is Having A Negative Impact On Public Health; PA Must Act

PA Environment Daily

And there at Geisinger, I am the founding director of the Environmental Health Institute, which we founded in 2007. We founded the Environmental Health Institute in 2007. Fully fund and staff government agencies that protect public health. And over the last 15 years, I've spent regular time in Danville.

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Environmental Health Project Releases New White Paper: PA's Shale Gas - What We Can Do Now To Better Protect Public Health

PA Environment Daily

Any call for more studies should not preclude swift and meaningful action on the part of our government. Shapiro and his administration to recognize the preponderance of evidence that already exists and take reasonable steps to defend the health of our residents from oil and gas pollution. Now is the time for Gov. Thats their job.

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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

IRA clean energy investments also will protect public health by cutting key toxic air pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide, by more than 50 percent by 2050, and drastically reduce fine particulate matter, which will save hundreds of billions of dollars in 2035 alone from avoided premature deaths. Your thoughts?

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EPA Must Protect Communities from Sterilizer Plants’ Carcinogenic Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

It’s likely our neighborhood was most exposed from the time the neighborhood was developed in 2007 until 2014, when the plants installed scrubbers in their smokestacks. The local government and school district now are spending $250,000 to install air monitors in Laredo to collect data on the community’s exposure.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

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Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa

Corp Watch

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

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