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California Must Not Abandon its Climate Leadership

Legal Planet

Over its short lifetime, the program has already transformed many segments of the fuels market. More than two-thirds of our diesel comes from renewable, non-petroleum resources, and many California refineries are shifting from refining fossil fuels to refining waste oils and other renewable feedstocks.

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The Pathways Alliance’s Carbon Capture Plans and the Risks to Communities

Enviromental Defense

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.

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Beyond the Cloud: What’s AI’s True Environmental Cost? Part 2

Enviromental Defense

While many tech companies are significant purchasers of renewable energy – Google, Meta, and Amazon are among the top five corporate buyers of wind and solar power globally – AI’s surging energy demand is also being used to justify extending the life of fossil fuel infrastructure.

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Nearly Half of US Breathes Unhealthy Levels of Pollution—Cars and Trucks Largely to Blame

Union of Concerned Scientists

Over 156 million people in the US are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollutants, according to the recently published 2025 State-of-the Air report from the American Lung Association (ALA). For 25 years the report has helped people across the country understand the quality of the air in their communities.

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From the Port to Your Porch, Every Part of the Freight System Can Get Cleaner 

Union of Concerned Scientists

UCS has also worked for many years to clean up trucking pollution, and our work now encompasses other parts of the freight system. All of this activity makes ports surrounded by dangerous levels of air pollution. These warehouses have grown significantly with the rise of e-commerce, becoming major concentrations of pollution.

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Republican Herald Editorial: One-Sided Discussions On Issues Don’t Promote True Progress, EPA Visit Was Not A 'Roundtable Discussion,' But A 'Rally' For Natural Gas In Delaware River Basin

PA Environment Daily

The Delaware River Basin Commission placed a moratorium on fracking in 2010 before banning it permanently in 2021 in places like Wayne and Pike counties locally, saying it posed signicant, immediate and long-term risks to the development, conservation, utilization, management and preservation of the rivers water resources.

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Indirect Source Rules: An Emerging Route Toward Clean Freight

Union of Concerned Scientists

While the shifts in freight systems in response to the boom in e-commerce have led to many efficiencies, they have also influenced a significant rise in the number of new mega-warehousescrucial hubs in this new system of freight and commerce, but magnets for highly polluting heavy-duty trucks and freight equipment.