Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

For example, Hurricane Laura (2020) resulted in a two-week disruption at the Sabine Pass LNG export facility but well over a month at Cameron LNG, the latter of which was sidelined by an accumulation of incidents, including to external supplies of electricity as well as required repairs and dredging to the associated shipping channel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Tailpipes from our cars, trucks and buses are also a major source of toxic local air pollution that disproportionately harms overburdened and underserved communities. We can achieve a 60% reduction in 2040, and by 85% in 2050, relative to 2020 levels. An average global temperature change greater than 1.5

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Acoel

AUGUST 17, 2021

As I noted in my 2020 blog post, my father was a veterinarian, and as a kid I had the “opportunity” to visit large dairy and beef cattle farms and pig farms, as well as slaughterhouses, and thus I got to know the commercial agriculture industry pretty well. The post Agricultural Air Pollution: A Brief Reprise appeared first on ACOEL.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

Methane emissions are the second-largest cause of global warming after carbon dioxide, and controlling them is increasingly considered a key to arresting climate change. This is existential proof that making methane visible can lead to voluntary action,” said Riley Duren, Carbon Mapper CEO and founder.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2023

May 20 Grass Lake & Glacial Till Barrens Evening Birding & Blooms, Monroe County -- Delaware RiverKeeper May 12 RiverWatch Video Report -- DCNR Blog: One Of The Best Things You Can Do To Help The Environment - Plant A Native Tree!

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That’s why I like to pause at the end of each year and share some good news from the previous months (see my previous recaps from 2022 , 2021 and 2020 ). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the California Air Resources Board (CARB) waiver request for the Ocean-Going Vessel At-Berth Regulation.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The issues on appeal were limited to the adequacy of certain aspects of the project EIR’s analyses of GHGs and criteria air pollutants. Tsakopoulos Investments, LLC v. County of Sacramento, et al. Mather South, LLC, et al, Real Parties ) (2023) Cal.App.5

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We emitted about 269 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018 (the latest year for which data are available), with industry, electricity production, and transportation the largest sources. Pennsylvania is acting to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. We've funded over 1,000 chargers?installed

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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Montrose

AUGUST 28, 2020

August 31, 2020) – Montrose Environmental Group, Inc. EyeCGas is a full range of OGI solutions ensuring quick detection and quantification of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), methane, carbon monoxide (CO), and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) leaks. Group Named OPGAL Distributor For US & Canada. IRVINE, Cali. EyeCGas 2.0

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

Section 5(a)(1) of the APCA specifically empowers EQB to “[a]dopt rules and regulations, for the prevention, control, reduction and abatement of air pollution. “We reject Secretary McDonnell’s argument that the allowance auction proceeds do not constitute a tax because covered sources pay RGGI, Inc., throughout the Commonwealth.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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HumanNature

MARCH 30, 2021

Guest Post By Shelby McClelland , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. But agriculture impacts our planet through more than just climate ; it is also one of the leading causes of biodiversity loss and water and air pollution. Greenhouse gas emission sources and sinks in agriculture. Credit: Amy Swan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

And we’re still trying to recover from a pandemic that has made even more clear the disproportionate impacts of air pollution on overburdened communities, making them even more vulnerable to the negative impacts of COVID 19. Just as important, cleaning up the power grid can also decrease carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, a 2023 study in Environmental Research Letters concluded that as little as 0.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

From 2020 to 2040, solar generation in these states jumps nearly ninefold and wind generation more than sevenfold. The shift from fossil fuels in the 100-percent RES scenario reduces the amount of toxic power plant air pollution much more than what we called a “no-new-policy,” or business-as-usual, scenario. percent in 2040.

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

“The report confirms, among other things, 2020 as the warmest year, winter and autumn on record for Europe with temperatures in winter 3.4 °C Despite localized temporary reductions in air pollution , the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have had minimal impact on climate trends. The Arctic really saw quite a spectacular year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Besides higher monthly bills, the two 1950s-era coal plants are responsible for significant air and climate pollution as well as toxic coal ash. 6 was enacted, the plants have emitted more than 29 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 28,000 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 16,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SOx).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

These plants, which were originally slated to close in 2020, include the Ormond Beach Generating Station located in the predominantly Latinx, low-income community of Oxnard. And all this polluting infrastructure has serious health and environmental implications for the surrounding communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Visually seeing aerosol particles that are too small for the human eye to detect makes me acutely aware of their presence in the surrounding air. During 2020, I started hearing aerosol particles mentioned outside of the atmospheric science field. Indoor air quality is also significant for general health; 3.2

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

These projects can exacerbate air pollution, put stress on watersheds, risk groundwater contamination, and cause dangerous leaks and explosions. Since 2010, there have been 76 incidents involving carbon dioxide pipelines in the US. Questions have also been raised about who is paying for this multi-billion dollar project.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Gavin Newsom’s 2020 executive order , which set a goal for the state’s heavy-duty vehicles to transition to zero-emissions vehicles by 2045, although the rule alone will not meet this goal. The rule was prompted in part by Gov. This is roughly the equivalent of taking 66 million fossil-fueled cars off the road for an entire year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

GHG Emissions by Sector Climate changes pollution and pollution changes climate Another reason to look at the global warming impacts of refineries from a health perspective is that there is an important link between global warming and local pollution. Bermix Studio/Unsplash PM2.5: A subset of these particles, called PM2.5,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Residents Will Have Drinkable Water By 2026 Resource Links - Dimock: -- AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To A Criminal Charge Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County [PaEN - December 2022] -- DEP Consent Agreement Allowing Shale Gas Drilling To Resume Under Dimock, Susquehanna County (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Strong federal standards to reduce pipeline leaks are critical for delivering on the Biden administration's commitment to curb climate-warming methane pollution while increasing public health and safety.” Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in the near-term.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

In 2020, DEP issued a $1.95 In 2020, the PUC imposed a $200,000 penalty on Energy Transfer/Sunoco related to integrity testing of the Mariner East Pipeline 1. Read more here. Don White (Indiana County) at a Senate Committee meeting-- We should be able to deal with that company and put them out of business. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2021

Adopts New Mon Valley Air Pollution Episode Rule -- Reuters: Sweden’s EQT To Buy Covanta Waste Management Company In $5.3 Adopts New Mon Valley Air Pollution Episode Rule -- Reuters: Sweden’s EQT To Buy Covanta Waste Management Company In $5.3

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Burning coal in these two regions account for a little under two gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, with 1.29 Burning coal emits twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and up to 50 times more than solar and wind in their entire lifecycles (manufacturing and recycling included). A moral imperative.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

DEP’s Air Quality regulations require unconventional shale gas, conventional, pipeline, storage and other oil and gas facilities to report the amount of air pollution they are emitting from their facilities since 2012 and do so regularly under Title V and other Air Quality permits issued by the Department of Environmental Protection.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

In addition to carbon dioxide emission reductions, sulfur and nitrogen pollutants also declined and improved public health. fell from 38,000 in 2005 to 3,100 in 2020 (a?91% Natural gas generation grew rapidly, driven by the shale gas revolution and low fuel prices.” The researchers estimate? premature deaths?fell

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. A 2020 study found that Native American households’ median energy burden was 45 percent higher than non-Hispanic White households, while Black households’ median energy burden was 43 percent higher and Hispanic households’ burden was 20 percent higher.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

EHP was called in the 2020 Grand Jury report on fracking as having stepped in to gather data and provide guidance where the Department of Health did not. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide. Health exposures can also occur from spills or leaks. Read more here.]

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon. Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 million deaths globally (Cohen et al.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. The updates would provide more comprehensive requirements to reduce climate and health-harming air pollution, including from hundreds of thousands of existing oil and gas sources nationwide.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2023

The electricity sector represents America’s second-largest source of carbon pollution and the Pennsylvania power sector is currently the third-highest polluting in the country, emitting nearly 80 million metric tons of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in 2021 alone.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2022

Street Introduces Bill To Set A New Clean Energy Standard And Support Carbon Capture To Eliminate All Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Power Plants By 2050 [PaEN] -- Chester County Residents Protest Mariner East Pipeline Construction [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial: West Deer Twp. . -- DEP Water Resources Committee Meets Jan.

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