Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

The WAIRE Program essentially requires warehouse operators to take actions to electrify warehouse activities and the trucks that visit warehouses in order to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and diesel particulate matter (DPM) emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Transportation generates 47 percent of nitrogen oxide and 21 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in Pennsylvania. “DEP is committed to supporting this choice by increasing public knowledge of electric vehicles, making it easier for consumers to find electric models, and helping to expand charging infrastructure.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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). Click Here for the proposed regulation, supporting documents.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2572 ) This facility is classified as a major facility for RACT purposes having the potential to emit greater than 100 tons per year of nitrogen oxide (NOx) and 50 tons per year of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions.

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

The state funded the two studies through the 2019 Budget Act. Particulate matter harms lungs and hearts, while nitrogen oxide compounds contribute to ozone pollution and other health impacts. A second study led by UC Santa Barbara was released simultaneously.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Given that heightened awareness, a Commerce Department advisory committee of electric and gas utility executives acknowledged at a meeting in the fall of 1970 that their industry needed “to show what they are doing about pollution [and] suggested that the gas industry take a look at the NOx [nitrogen oxides] problem.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

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. In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7 micrometers or less.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

from 1990–2019. Tom Wolf in late 2019 created a task force to look at the state’s potential for capturing, storing and using CO2. Read more here ] The plant would mix the captured CO2 with ammonia to produce urea, which is used in diesel exhaust systems to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. Studies by the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A separate UCS analysis back in 2019 also captured the inequitable burdens of pollution from road vehicles. Reducing fossil fuel pollution leads to fewer deaths and more healthcare savings UCS found that decarbonization policies result in a decline in key pollutants such as PM 2.5 , nitrogen oxides, and sulfur oxides.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Examples are benzene, hydrofluoric acid, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and many, many other toxic pollutants. The 2019 explosion at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery was in a unit which used hydrofluoric acid as a catalyst. Refining uses many risky industrial processes.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2022

LR100 is a cleaner fuel source for boilers than other fuel oil replacement options and will reduce air emissions of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter by 50% and sulfur dioxide emissions by nearly 99%. . -- Vicinity Energy Philadelphia, Inc. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

However, leaks which allow gasses to escape can mitigate reductions or result in overall increases in emissions relative to alternate storage methods, and generating energy via anaerobic digesters can emit pollutants like nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide, among others. Searchinger, 2019 , Islam and Lee, 2019 , Adhya et al.,

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2022

Manchin Agree On Largest Single Investment In Measures To Fight Climate Change, Assess Methane Leak Fees On Oil & Gas Facilities [PaEN] -- EQB Meets Aug. 9 On Final Reg.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The transportation sector is also a substantial source of nitrogen oxides and particulates, both of which are dangerous to human health. The court asked questions about EPA’s conclusion in the 2021 that the 2019 waiver rescission had failed to consider states’ and manufacturers’ reliance interests.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

Along with Carbon dioxide and Methane, particle pollution such as particulate matter and nitrogen oxides are examples of pollutants discharged into the atmosphere from flaring. (26) 27) The human body’s respiratory system is also harmed by Nitrogen oxide exposure. (28) Citations U.S. see also Karine Lacroix et al.,

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Despite the panel’s regular reports about the consequences of burning fossil fuels, between 1990 and 2019 global emissions rose 54 percent and they are still rising. degree limit of the Paris Agreement is a pipe dream unless emissions peak in the coming three years and fall by almost half from 2019 levels by 2030, the scientists said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 17, 2025

He also oversaw a new rule that let industrial facilities use less-effective methods to monitor their emissions of nitrogen oxides, and withdrew grants that funded research on how chemical exposures affect young children. In 2019, Trump infamously withdrew US from the Paris Climate Agreement. Whats next?

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

For example, recent attention has focused on tightening the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone smog, which is formed by atmospheric reactions on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). 2019); Birckhead v. 2019); Sierra Club v. 17-1271, 2019 WL 847199 (D.C. FERC , 925 F.3d

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