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DEP Invites Comments On A Proposed Declaration Of An Exceptional Air Pollution Event Due To 2023 Wildfire Smoke Impacts

PA Environment Daily

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 27 PA Bulletin inviting public comments on a proposed declaration of an Exceptional Air Quality Event due to 2023 wildfires from Canada and New Jersey causing elevated levels of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds impacting ozone pollution in Pennsylvania.

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Has Gasoline Use in California Peaked?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Gasoline consumption is down by more than two billion gallons per year since 2017, when 15.6 Eliminating gasoline combustion also means getting rid of harmful pollutant emissions like nitrogen oxides and reactive organic gases. billion gallons were sold in the state.

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Ask a Scientist: Gas Plants Disproportionately Harm Marginalized Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality.

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It’s Time to Phase Out the Portlands Gas Plant

Enviromental Defense

We know that the plant emits nitrogen oxides (NOx) which are known to cause asthma in young children and cause difficulty breathing for people with respiratory illnesses. Similarly, the IESO plans to provide 25 per cent of the electricity we need from burning gas for the next six years, up from just 4 per cent in 2017.

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Ask a Scientist: Two Dozen States Can Meet 100 Percent of Electricity Demand with Renewables by 2035

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since its founding in 2017, the US Climate Alliance —a coalition of states committed to meeting the goals of the Paris climate accord—has grown to 24 states and one US territory. Emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants in alliance states drop 88 percent and 77 percent respectively by 2040.

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Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections

PA Environment Daily

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet on November 12 to consider a proposed regulation on notification of spills, corrections to Air Quality regulations on RACT requirements for nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds and final-omitted regulations on noncoal mine blasting. Read more here. 2015-011-L ).

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Rural Drivers vs. Disinformation: Three Facts about Electric Vehicles to Set the Record Straight

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2017, approximately 27 percent of households in areas with less than 2,000 people per square mile had just one car. As an example, according to a 2017 study , a Chevy Bolt has 35 moving and wearing parts, while a comparable car, the VW Golf, has 167. cars per household, many households have just one car.