Air pollution from G20 consumers caused two million deaths in 2010
New Scientist
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
More than half of premature deaths from air pollution worldwide in 2010 were the result of economic consumption in just 11 G20 countries
California Must Not Abandon its Climate Leadership
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
In 2010, out-of-state oil companies pushed Proposition 23 on California voters, which would have suspended the state’s pioneering climate policies, including the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. In fact, many oil companies likely profit from their investments in clean fuels and trading credits under the program. This is a playbook we’ve seen before.
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Should you exercise outside in air pollution?
Environmental News Bits
OCTOBER 8, 2021
EPA researchers are working to improve knowledge about the relationship between exercise and air pollution, which, until recently, has not been an active area of research. In 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a workshop to review the state of the science and existing… Read more →
Despite cleaner air, pollution disparities for people of color remain across the US
Environmental News Bits
JANUARY 25, 2022
Researchers investigated disparities in exposure to six major air pollutants in 1990, 2000 and 2010 by comparing models of air pollution levels to census data. Read the full story from the University of Washington.
Growing Shade Equity, One Tree at a Time
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 13, 2024
According to the California Department of Public Health, 599 people died from heat-related causes in California between 2010 and 2019, but a Los Angeles Times analysis found the true toll was likely six times higher. and Sylmar in the San Fernando Valley. “I
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Climate Policy in India
Legal Planet
JUNE 13, 2022
It was only in 2010 that India agreed that all countries should take responsibility for controlling their own emissions, but there was backsliding the following year at the next round of international negotiations. India then became more firmly committed to climate policy.
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Electric Vehicle Sales in US Hit the Accelerator Pedal
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
million since 2010), other states across the US are also seeing accelerating sales. Electric vehicles (EVs) can eliminate tailpipe emissions altogether and are also more efficient than gasoline vehicles, making EVs an important technology for reducing both global-warming and harmful air pollution from personal transportation.
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Ask a Scientist: It’s Getting Easier for US Car Owners to Go Electric
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
This has been particularly true in your home state of California, which historically has set the clean car agenda for the rest of the country because of its waiver under the Clean Air Act to set its own air pollution standards. Since 2010, the state’s clean vehicle rebate program has issued half a million rebates totaling $1.2
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DEP: Penalties Collected From Air Pollution Violations At Webco's Oil City Facility Funds Local Park Projects In Venango County
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
On November 13, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it approved funding for two Oil City recreation projects from penalties collected for Air Pollution Act violations at the Webco Oil City Plant in Venango County.
New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost. <mic drop> So, is industry just full of it?
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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
In 2010, U.S. But the growth of f racking began in earnest around 2008, and it drove down the price of gas. Growth in renewable energy, which was likely driven by state energy policies, took an extra bit out of the market for coal. Another key factor is often overlooked.
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Disinformation Alert: Fossil Fuel Interests Preparing to Deploy False Claims about New EPA Rules
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 27, 2023
For coal-fired power, the economic case has been bleak for a long time now, which has brought US coal-fired generation down to less than half of its 2010 level. Last year, for the first time ever, US renewable electricity generation surpassed coal-fired electricity generation.
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Trucking Industry Disinformation Will Cost Lives
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 30, 2024
California is the only state in which those standards are in effect in model year 2024, and manufacturers are overcomplying with both standards at this time, thanks in large part to electric truck sales that well exceed what is required by ACT and flexibilities in the Omnibus rule that were agreed to with the manufacturers.
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How Post-War Justice Strategies Can Be Applied to the Climate Crisis
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
The dangerous impacts of a warming, fossil-fuel dependent world span from wildfires capable of destroying entire towns to cancer-causing air pollution that afflicts the next generation. The climate crisis is one of humanity’s most complex conflicts yet.
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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
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.
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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 20, 2022
The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms.
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The Energy Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
By: Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 8, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching Clean Air Act rule intended to address the interstate transport of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from upwind to downwind states. See 76 Fed. 48208 (Aug. See David E.
Beaver County Residents Invited To Join An Oct. 23 In-Person Tour Of Shale Gas Fracking Sites & Infrastructure In Washington County And Discover Its Costs
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 17, 2024
By 2010, Washington County led Pennsylvania in natural gas production, and its landscape transformed with drilling rigs, compressor stations, and gas pipelines. Local residents began reporting water contamination, air pollution, and health problems such as respiratory illnesses and headaches.
Analysis: Vietnam targets net-zero but struggles to break coal dependence
A Greener Life
JANUARY 31, 2022
Around 2010, Vietnam stopped building big dams, instead favouring coal power, when it released its seventh power development plan (PDP7) for 2011–2020. Data from Global Energy Monitor show that since 2010 Vietnam’s coal sector has received at least US$29 billion in foreign investment. It’s just back and forth, back and forth.”.
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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of EPA’s 2024 Vehicle Emissions Standards
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 9, 2024
The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v.
PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 8
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 7, 2023
PA Bulletin, page 2007 ) Air Quality Permits -- Greylock Midstream, LLC - Veres Compressor Station: DEP accepted General Permit-5 for Veres Compressor Station for associated compressors, pigging operations and other air pollution sources at the facility in Greene Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2010 ) -- National Fuel Gas Supply Corp.
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Why You Should Care About The Latest IPCC Report | BreezoMeter
Breezometer
JUNE 7, 2022
According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. The rate of emissions growth year on year slowed between 2010-2019 in comparison to the previous decade.
December 25 PA Environment Digest Now Available
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 25, 2023
8 Hearing On RACT 3 Air Quality Permit For Magnesita Refractories Facility In York County Dept. Billion Winter Storm Elliot Settlement With Non-Performing Natural Gas, Other Electricity Generators PUC Update On Investigation Of Dec.
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The Pathways Alliance’s Carbon Capture Plans and the Risks to Communities
Enviromental Defense
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
For example, in the United States, there have been nearly 100 leaks or ruptures on existing carbon pipelines since 2010. Carbon capture aggravates air pollution. Industrial sites with carbon capture will have increased emissions of air and water pollutants, such as fine particulate matter.
Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out
Law Columbia
JUNE 1, 2022
Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. The plaintiffs claim that the emissions of CO 2 , as well as air pollutants, by the coal-fired power plants violate personal rights to life, bodily integrity, and health and the right to a peaceful life (a variant of personal rights). Kobe Steel Ltd.,
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How energy storage made headlines in 2017
Edouard Stenger
JANUARY 16, 2018
According to numbers from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), ion lithium batteries have gotten 20 percent cheaper year on year from 2010 to 2016 , going from $1,000 per kWh of energy stored in 2010 to $273 in 2016. Decarbonization and killing King Coal are priorities to combat global climate change and local air pollution.
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Energy news as COP23 is taking place in Germany
Edouard Stenger
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Meanwhile, many forget that the flip side of local air pollution is global climate change. We have seen it many times over, pollution from our air, water and soil is killing nine million people every year. It crashed the 10 GW barrier in 2010. Solving one will solve the other. In 2016, the world added 138.5
Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions
Edouard Stenger
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
A 2010 US study showed that stopping burning coal could be done by 2030 with renewables and energy efficiency. It is worth remember that overall, air pollution accounts for 7 million deaths per year (WHO). More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the Paris Agreement targets.
Guest Essay: Counties, PEMA Need To Include A Complete Vulnerability Assessment Of All Natural Gas Facilities In State, County Hazard Mitigation Emergency Plans
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 2, 2023
. -- Bursts Of Intense Natural Gas Emissions From Pigging Unit: On December 27, CNX Gas Co LLC’s Oak Springs stand-alone pig launcher/receiver along Farmer Lane in South Franklin Township, Washington County released bursts of dangerous methane emissions into the air around homes 1,500 feet away for over an hour.
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A Sacrifice to the Emperor of Forever: PFAS and Sacrifice Zones
Vermont Law
OCTOBER 1, 2023
5) Often, those living in sacrifice zones do not know that they are being exposed to high levels of pollution. In Cancer Alley, Black residents are unknowingly exposed to multiple sources of industrial air pollution, creating a cancer rate of about 47 times higher than the Environmental PPA’s acceptable levels. (6)
DEP To Outline Recommendations For Changing Act 101 And Electronics Waste Recycling Laws To Make Them More Effective At Dec. 16 Advisory Committee Meeting
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Covered Device Recycling Act”) which opens by saying the Act was passed in 2010 “that arranged for manufacturer-sponsored recycling, many Pennsylvanians are frustrated by their inability to conveniently and affordably recycle used electronic devices (covered devices). Read more here.]
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CEQA Mixed-Use “Mix and Match” Upheld: Second District Holds Stable Project Description Requirement Does Not Mean Ultimately Approved Version of Revised Mixed Use Project Must Match An Alternative Analyzed In EIR, And New Project Alternative Added to FEIR Does Not Require Recirculation
CEQA Developments
JULY 7, 2022
While the project would create needed new housing and eliminate blight, it would result in significant unavoidable environmental impacts including air pollution emissions from increased traffic. The Regents of the University of California (2010) 188 Cal.App.4th Citing California Oak Foundation v. 4th 227, 274, 276.)
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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule
Acoel
JUNE 29, 2022
The 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) provided smaller but significant air quality improvements following its implementation in 2010. In 2020, sources in both the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) NOX annual program and the A(cid) R(ain) P(rogram) together emitted 0.78 Most areas of the eastern U.S.
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Alaska’s Atmospheric Public Trust: A Right Without a Remedy?
Vermont Law
OCTOBER 20, 2014
air pollution. , 53 (2010). [12]. “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. in order to enhance the health, safety, and welfare” Alaskans. [13]. 15]. . . . 37 Ecology L.Q. VIII, §§ 1–4. [13].
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Cooperative Federalism, As Applied: Building Electrification
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Berkeley relied heavily on this authority in enacting the Ordinance, citing in the law’s legislative findings concerns about local air pollution, seismic risk and risk of wildfire, climate impacts, and “environmental and health hazards provided by the consumption and transportation of gas.” Local Government Brief 9). FERC , 621 F.3d
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Explainer: China launches first national soil survey in 40 years
A Greener Life
AUGUST 22, 2022
Despite worsening levels over decades, some work to combat heavy metal pollution has begun to yield results; a 2013 initiative to tackle air pollution and strict controls of cadmium content in zinc-containing animal feeds have brought sources of cadmium contamination under control. Rapid acidification. meaning a 2.2-fold
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California Adopts CEQA Guidelines Aimed at Improving Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change Impacts in Environmental Reviews
Law Columbia
JANUARY 10, 2019
These amendments flesh out many of the provisions on climate change and energy that were first added to the CEQA Guidelines in 2010. GHG Emissions Analysis. The CEQA Guidelines have been revised to clarify the appropriate methodology for measuring and assessing the significance of GHG emissions, consistent with recent case law.
Waste and Water Woes
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
JUNE 14, 2023
While also operating outside of California (it is operating with some success in Puerto Rico), in California, the practice works in tandem with the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program to reduce particulate matter and nitrous oxide released from engines, heaters, pumps, tractors and other agricultural combustion systems.
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Environmental Perspectives
Environmental Science
JULY 30, 2018
In general, environmental data are organized according to media, such as air or groundwater, analytical fraction, such as VOCs, and sampling round, such as 2014 data. For example, 2010 soil data are likely to still represent conditions whereas 2010 groundwater data may not. Soil data are probably least sensitive to time.
2020 was Europe’s hottest year on record, finds report
Physics World
APRIL 22, 2021
Despite localized temporary reductions in air pollution , the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have had minimal impact on climate trends. C above the 1981–2010 reference period, almost two degrees higher than the previous record. C above the average,” says the report’s lead author Freja Vamborg , a climate scientist at Copernicus.
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A Green Future is an Affordable Future
Enviromental Defense
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The cost of electricity generated from solar panels fell by 89 per cent between 2010-2022. A future without climate action: Car-domination continues as the federal government scraps its clean vehicle regulations, leading to a huge increase of polluting gas vehicles on the streets. Public transit is convenient, affordable and reliable.
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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant
HumanNature
MARCH 31, 2021
Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease.” link] Climate & Clean Air Coalition. Short-Lived Climate Pollutants. Health Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution: Lines That Connect.” link] Brook Robert D.,
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Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community Urges EPA To Move Forward With Strong Regulation Of Vinyl Chloride Under Federal Toxic Substances Control Act, While Calling For A Ban
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 17, 2024
days during manufacturing, transport, and storage. The public comment stresses the need for the EPA to account for these frequent, unpredictable incidents in its risk evaluation. -- Vinyl chloride in PVC pipes: As cities replace lead service lines with PVC pipes, residual vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) presents another exposure risk.
Alarm bells raised as Alberta’s refusal to assess dangers of massive oil sands carbon capture project sparks safety concerns
Enviromental Defense
OCTOBER 31, 2024
These projects can exacerbate air pollution, put stress on watersheds, risk groundwater contamination, and cause dangerous leaks and explosions. Since 2010, there have been 76 incidents involving carbon dioxide pipelines in the US.
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