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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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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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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.

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Environmental Quality Board Approves Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; NOx & VOC Corrections For Comment; Blasting Reg

PA Environment Daily

On November 12, the Environmental Quality Board approved for public comment a proposed regulation on notification of spills and corrections to Air Quality regulations on RACT requirements for nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds. Martin Causer (R-Cameron). Also approved was a final-omitted regulations on noncoal mine blasting.

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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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London introduces hydrogen-powered double-decker buses

A Greener Life

His office says the buses will help clean up the air and improve the health of Londoners by reducing the level of harmful nitrogen oxide in the air. TfL has since 2017 been at work to phase out one of the biggest contributors to air pollution , diesel buses as well as retrofitting older ones with cleaner engines.