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Railroads Are Running Dirty Diesel Trains Through Communities and No One Is Doing Anything About It

Union of Concerned Scientists

After slowing new purchases during the Great Recession, railroads bought a large volume of new locomotives, both to replace aging stock and to avoid stronger pollution controls. But it isn’t just the waiver request where the federal government has been missing in action.

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President Trump Wants Coal Ash in State Hands

Circle of Blue

Billions of tons of ash have been scrubbed from air, flushed from the bottom of furnaces and washed and dried from pollution control equipment. About 10 percent of the more than 45 billion tons of coal burned in the United States since 1970, most of it for electricity, ends up as coal ash, one of the nation’s largest waste streams.

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Good & Bad Environmental News From the U.S. Supreme Court

Legal Planet

This legal battle has both a long history and enormous implications for California’s aggressive pollution control and climate change policies. Near the end of his time in office in 2008, President George W. Bush’s EPA issued the first-ever rejection of a California waiver request under CAA section 209(b).

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PA Conservation Heritage Project Profile: Paul O. Swartz - From Photojournalist To Susquehanna River Basin Commission

PA Environment Daily

Following his service with DER, Paul worked as a Field Representative for the Joint Air & Water Pollution Control Conservation Committee (JLCC) for the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1981/1982. (In In 1969 Ralph W.

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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

It then tread water for a few years and began a steep decline in 2008, going from half of U.S. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. Since around 2008, natural gas use has been the mirror image of coal use. electricity to about one-fifth today.

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Desperate Tampering Industry Trying to Pass RPM Act to Continue Polluting

Union of Concerned Scientists

A couple years ago , I detailed how an industry designed to increase and sell devices tampering with pollution controls was trying to use the extremely small slice of its business targeted at racing as a Trojan horse to hinder EPA enforcement and let loose a bevy of tampering devices on the American public.

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Environmental Budget Cuts in NC: 2008-2018

Smith Enviorment

The report, The Thin Green Line, looks at staffing levels and funding for environmental programs between 2008 and 2018 in the lower 48 states. The report compares 2018 funding levels to both 2008 dollars and inflation-adjusted 2008 dollars. 2008 Funding. Inflation Adjusted 2008 Funding. 2018 Funding. $116

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