Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A 2021 meta-analysis of over 40 peer-reviewed studies on the subject concluded that “there is no particular type of shopping that has an absolute environmental advantage and it is in no way possible to shop ourselves out of the environmental crisis.” How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

They accounted for most of the failed generating capacity in a number of recent extreme weather events, including Winter Storm Uri in 2021 and Winter Storm Elliott in 2022, according to Gas Malfunction , a new Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) issue brief. First, there’s air pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2023

If electric delivery vehicle deployment is maximized, this transition could have significant positive impacts on both air quality and the larger adoption of commercial electric vehicles. First and most obviously, replacing 30-plus-year-old delivery vehicles predominately with ZEVs will help to reduce air pollution in these areas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

Electric vehicles (EVs) can eliminate tailpipe emissions altogether and so are an attractive option for reducing both global-warming and smog-forming air pollution. For example, the emissions from driving a 2021 Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus in California equal those of a gasoline car getting 152 miles per gallon.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

In November 2021, Prime Minster Modi announced in Glasgow that India would get half its energy from renewables by 2030 as well as significantly cutting its emissions. Much of the shift may have been due to recognition that renewables would provide more energy independence and would help get India’s crippling urban air pollution under control.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] The Office of Attorney General also brought about a 2021 settlement with Chesapeake Energy for payment of royalties to landowners with shale gas leases that involved $5.3 penalty and $5 million restitution from the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for air pollution violations; -- $1.4 Read more here.]

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

in 2021, which is 2% higher than the percentage before the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. The citizens in the Kobe case argue that the aggravation of climate change and air pollution by the new power plants violate their rights. The court viewed climate change as an uncertain future danger.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The most recent extension expired at the end of 2021. Electric cars , trucks , and buses are a key technology to reduce climate-warming emissions as well as health-harming local air pollution, and those vehicles need readily available charging infrastructure. Why now and why in 2032? The big picture.

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Capaccio

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

On December 22, 2021, EPA issued a final rule to add 1-Bromopropane, also known as n-propyl bromide (nPB), to the list of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). This is the first air pollutant to be added since the list was established in 1990. Additional Information can be found on EPA’s Website Here.

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Breezometer

JANUARY 27, 2022

The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing has China pulling out all the stops to cut down on air pollution, which can impact people worse during intense physical activity. 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing - The Air Quality Problem. pollution in the 1st quarter of 2021 was 21% higher than in 2019 (!). Will they manage?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Environmental justice analysis: DTE’s energy plan includes an assessment of environmental justice that utilized US Environmental Protection Agency screening and mapping tools to evaluate its facilities’ air pollution and health impacts. Smaller amounts of efficiency: Unfortunately, DTE is targeting only a 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Unless global particulate air pollution is reduced to meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guideline, the average person is set to lose 2.2 Residents of the most polluted areas of the world could… Read more → Download the document. years off their lives.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As with too many other air pollutants, people of color face a disproportionate impact from sterilizers that pose greater cancer risks, co-located facilities, and those violating the Clean Air Act. This is also not the first time the sterilization industry has attempted to weaken these regulations.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Back in 2021, the federal government committed to ending the export of thermal coal before 2030. Air pollutants from coal plants are linked to chronic heart and respiratory disease, and a host of acute ailments. In 2021, the federal government introduced a policy to end mining for thermal coal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 20, 2024

We also noted that, for those living in historically marginalized communities to be able to effectively contribute their input, they need to be able to easily access information about federal policy actions on issues as disparate as air pollution standards, student loan debt, and climate change impacts.

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Environment, Law, and History

APRIL 29, 2022

The recently published open-access book, Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook , edited by Anna-Katharina Wöbse and Patrick Kupper (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021), has a number of law-related chapters.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2021, DEP reported 236,150 cubic feet of TENORM (Technically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) was sent to LLRW facilities for disposal, while all other industries combined in the four state compact sent 46,546 cubic feet of traditionally defined low-level radioactive waste. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That law created the state’s Community Air Protection Program focused on reducing exposure in communities most impacted by air pollution. She said in 2021, “What was done functionally was exactly what everybody was worried about. We’ve made it more complex for communities to advocate.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

billion over the 2021–2022 period. When drought compounds heatwaves , upticks in dust and air pollutants associated with extra energy use cause poor air quality in regions such as California’s Central Valley. In California alone, crop revenue losses due to drought totaled $3.0

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Hurricane Ida (2021), on the other hand, resulted in a major and long-lasting curtailment of offshore gas production. Yet none of these storms have come in the midst of a war tightly interconnected with global energy markets.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A 2021 Mountain State Spotlight and ProPublica story detailed how largely Black … Continue reading A Black community in West Virginia sues the EPA to spur action on toxic air pollution

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Investing in transportation electrification would not only reduce climate impacts from Minnesota’s largest source of global warming emissions, but would reduce particulate matter air pollution, which disproportionately harms Black, Latinx and low-income Minnesotans. $4 Two years later, he accelerated that plan by 10 years.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2022

On August 16, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Conservation District released a study linking contamination in Pittsburgh’s urban soils to historical air pollution emissions and atmospheric inversions. Urban soils are known to contain various harmful contaminants that pose health risks.

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Acoel

AUGUST 17, 2021

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Don Stever. The post Agricultural Air Pollution: A Brief Reprise appeared first on ACOEL. I previously wrote an ACOEL blog post that pointed out the relationship between meat agriculture and global warming.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 14, 2021

Consider a University of Chicago Econ 301 homework assignment situated in Summer 2021 in the American West. It is common knowledge that your property now faces greater air pollution exposure and a higher probability of burning down. You own a $500,000 home in a fire zone in the American West. You owe $X on your mortgage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For reference, 2021 electricity sector emissions in California were roughly 60 MMT.) The CPUC got off to a disappointing start roughly four years ago when it selected a weak emissions reduction target and planned to reduce electricity sector emissions down to 46 million metric tons (MMT) by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Industry Has No Interest In Changes In September 2021, environmental groups submitted rulemaking petitions to the Environmental Quality Board to increase well plugging bonding amounts for conventional and unconventional shale gas wells to what it costs taxpayers to plug oil and gas wells abandoned by their owners. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2024

This educational session is part of Protect PT’s EPA funded study Clean Air For All: Knowledge is Power, which focuses on three local sources of air pollution in Westmoreland and Allegheny County. We are conducting these studies in response to ongoing resident concerns about how air pollution is impacting their health.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

emissions from vehicles contribute about 25 percent of all air pollution in Allegheny County. The application for, and subsequent award of, this Targeted Airshed Grant is another effort in recent years to improve air quality in the Mon Valley. In 2021, the county adopted the Mon Valley Air Pollution Episode Rule.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

California’s allowance-auction prices , which had been at or near the regulatory minimum for much of the life of the program, started rising markedly in mid-2021 and have been over $25 since. Meanwhile, allowance prices—one indicator of a carbon market’s efficacy—have remained consistently high.

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Washington Nature

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

South Tacoma is also one of the 16 communities in our state that the Department of Ecology has identified as overburdened by air pollution due to a long history of local industrial activity. Poor air quality and limited trees in communities like South Tacoma are a legacy of environmental racism. Frontline communities (e.g.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Ecology is seeking input from the public on three main areas of the new air quality program: The indicators to use to identify an overburdened community highly impacted by air pollution, The types of air monitors to deploy to communities, and How communities would like to see air quality improved.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2024

T he California Air Resources Board reports that in 2021, heavy-duty trucking was responsible for over 30 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, making up roughly 10% of the state’s total emissions.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Nov 22, 2021, 2 pm CSTRegister here. Join ProPublica reporters for an in-depth tutorial on how to investigate toxic air pollution in your community by using ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind air toxics map and data. Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In 2021, just a handful of zero-emission cargo vans were in operation nationally, however, today there are over 22,000 of these clean-operating vehicles making deliveries in our neighborhoods across the country.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2024

A report by the New Weather Institute found 258 prominent deals globally across more than ten professional sports in 2021, leading them to declare that “sport is floating on a sea of high carbon sponsorship.” LAFC and the Dodgers are hardly the only teams participating in so-called “sportswashing.”

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