2018 Air Pollution Regulations 
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Starting with our Turning Down the Gas in California analysis in 2018, UCS has been pushing the CPUC to do more thoughtful, proactive planning for gas plant retirements. This information can be used in future planning processes to plan for retirements in much more detail. This development has also been a long time in the making.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 26, 2022
California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 2, 2023
Donald McEachin, who co-led the inception of this legislation starting in 2018 and was a fierce champion for environmental justice all his life. Robert Bullard, “environmental justice embraces the principle that all people and communities have a right to equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.”
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 26, 2024
District Court on Monday a proposed consent decree in settlement of their federal Clean Air Act lawsuit against United States Steel Corporation. Clean air is a right, not a privilege, for all Pittsburghers,” said David Masur, executive director of PennEnvironment , the citizen-based non-profit and state group for Environment America.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
I’ve written previously about how the truck industry is fighting regulations at the state and federal level with everything they’ve got. One of the scare tactics truck manufacturers have been pushing is the old industry canard of job-killing regulations. Why would truck regulations impact jobs? Source: ERM 2022 ).
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 28, 2022
6 originally bailed out—reported in a 2018 bankruptcy filing that it lost $12 million annually due to its stake in OVEC, and Ohio legislative analysts discovered that Ohio utilities paid $94 million over market prices for OVEC’s electricity in 2018. Ohio regulators need to act. 6 coal subsidies shield them from those costs.
Circle of Blue
MARCH 1, 2022
It was filed by the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union and the Green League, who object to a 30-year groundwater pumping permit given by state regulators. Other studies have shown that Black Americans are more likely to have lower quality drinking water and higher exposure to air pollutants.
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