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Banking and Exchange Programs to Mitigate Vehicle Miles Traveled

Legal Planet

Lets fast forward to today; more than half a century of government housing policy favoring sprawling, car-dependent development has spawned long commutes, increased exposure to air pollution, and segregated communities. And across the United States, the transportation sector is now the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Shell Falcon Pipeline LP Pleads No Contest To Criminal Charges For Violating The State Clean Streams Law In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties; Will Pay $300,000 In Penalties

PA Environment Daily

These penalties are in addition to a $670,000 civil penalty DEP accessed against Shell Falcon Pipeline and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLC for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Decrease To 31.2%

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Delivery Vans are Going Electric: Where and Why

Union of Concerned Scientists

Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs), like the big rigs on our highways and the vans that deliver our packages, make up just over 1 in 10 of the vehicles on our roads, but are responsible for over half of ozone-forming nitrogen oxide pollution and lung-damaging fine particulate pollution from on-road vehicles.

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Ohioans Stuck Burning Coal, Burning Cash

Union of Concerned Scientists

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. 6 in 2019 because it was bad for consumers, bad for the economy, and bad for the environment. Even if you don’t live in Ohio, you may have heard about H.B. Ohioans pay for OVEC losses.

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If the US Meets Its Climate Goals, We Can Save Money and Lives

Union of Concerned Scientists

New in this UCS analysis is a look at the public health co-benefits of reducing air pollution from fossil fuels that occur from decarbonizing our economy. A separate UCS analysis back in 2019 also captured the inequitable burdens of pollution from road vehicles. for communities of color. Source: UCS.

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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. pollution, which are particles with diameters of 2.5 micrometers or less. million deaths globally.

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DEP To Hold May 7 Hearing On Proposed Title V Air Quality Permit For Tennessee Gas Pipeline Compressor Station 219 In Jefferson Twp., Mercer County

PA Environment Daily

The Department of Environmental Protection will hold a hearing May 7 on the proposed Title V RACT 3 Air Quality Permit for the Tennessee Gas Pipeline compressor Station 219 located in Jefferson Township, Mercer County. ( The hearing will be held at the DEP Northwest Regional Office, 230 Chestnut Street in Meadville from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.