2022 Air Pollution Government 
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
One issue in the Seven Counties case is whether the impact statement should discuss air pollution caused by refining the oil shipped over the proposed rail line. The argument is that the Board shouldn’t have to consider that because EPA has authority to regulate air pollution, not the Board.
Legal Planet
MARCH 7, 2025
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. But this American Dream has come at a steep cost. miles per day ). miles per day ).
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PA Environment Daily
MARCH 27, 2025
Its a daily litany of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells. Now it happens occasionally. No agency will help them.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Children in communities of color and low-income communities were more highly exposed to air pollution. Interactions: Babies living in economically disinvested neighborhoods in their first year of life and exposed to air pollution were more likely to be diagnosed with autism.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Domestic Chinese EV sales in 2022 were 6.8 The amount of new solar capacity in 2023 was double 2022’s, and new wind capacity was up 66%. This is not an accident: the government poured $22 billion into the EV industry starting in 2009. China’s commitment to clean energy use and to producing clean tech is undeniable.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Incremental (step-by-step) approaches In 2022, the EPA published an Environmental Justice Legal Tools document and a Cumulative Impacts Addendum. These components are also being assessed and used in regulatory decision-making by some government agencies at the local, state, or federal level.
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. percent higher than the number of wealthier residents, according to a 2022 UCS study.
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