Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Examples are benzene, hydrofluoric acid, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and many, many other toxic pollutants. In 2016 it accounted for 57% of total toxic emissions from larger sources in the city, including benzene and other known carcinogens. Refining uses many risky industrial processes.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2016 , LaHue et al.,

Carbon Dioxide 147

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

Indeed, the EPA, under the Obama administration, in 2016, completed Quad Oa, also known as the "New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for [volatile organic compounds] VOC[s] and methane emissions from the oil and gas sector," which is a substantial source of methane emissions. (7) Turner, Jr. times or 152 percent in production areas. (24)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

The rule, which also applies to new gas plants, would avoid as much as 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042, the EPA calculated , the equivalent of the annual emissions of 137 million passenger vehicles—about half of the cars in the country. Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S.

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