Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

In California, transportation is responsible for over 40 percent of GHG emissions and is a leading contributor to emissions of health-harmful air pollutants, such as particulate matter and nitrogen oxides. miles per day ). miles per day ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But while greenhouse gas emissions may be reduced, a delivery fulfilled by a diesel-burning truck may lead to increases in emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and lung-damaging particulate matter.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Number of cars are up, but gasoline use is down The number of passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs in California has continued to increase over the last ten years, from less than 23 million in 2013 to almost 29 million in 2023. Only around 50,000 EVs were on the road in 2013, but there are now over 1.5

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Frontiers

JULY 6, 2021

A new epidemiological study by the open access publisher Frontiers is the first to show that the risk of developing dysmenorrhea increases by more than 30 times for women and girls who are exposed long-term to air pollutants such as carbon and nitrogen oxides and fine particulate matter. They found that from 2000- to 2013, 4.2%

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The Energy Law

JULY 1, 2013

By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On June 24, 2013, the U.S. The CSAPR sets limits on sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants in 28 upwind states in the eastern part of the country. Supreme Court granted the petitions for writs of certiorari filed by the U.S.

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Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides Clean Air Act 2013 40

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Given that heightened awareness, a Commerce Department advisory committee of electric and gas utility executives acknowledged at a meeting in the fall of 1970 that their industry needed “to show what they are doing about pollution [and] suggested that the gas industry take a look at the NOx [nitrogen oxides] problem.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

These fees and programs were established with legislation in 2007 and then were extended until 2024 with the passage of Assembly Bill 8 in 2013 (hence the name, “AB 8 fees”). Now, Assembly Bill 241 (AB 241) would extend these fees and modernize the funding programs to make sure that public dollars are spent in common sense and equitable ways.

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