Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Primarily, these have focused on the 2007 EPA regulations, which were the first step in the phase-in of diesel engine standards meant to cut particulate emissions by more than 80 percent and smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NO X ) emissions by 90 percent. Source: ERM 2022 ). Source: ERM 2022 ).

2007

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.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

In 2022, Consumer Reports, EV Noire and Green Latinos collaborated with UCS on a national survey asking US residents in rural and urban areas if they would buy or lease an EV for their next vehicle. According to the 2022 survey, there are several factors which might explain this discrepancy.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Most prominently, because the approach is changing from rewarding specific technologies to rewarding anything that meets the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions threshold of “clean”—hence the “tech-neutral” label—exactly how the government goes about determining whether or not something is actually eligible will be enormously important.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2022

Also on the agenda is a final regulation setting RACT (Reasonably Available Control Technology Standards) for major sources of nitrogen oxides. Posted: July 27, 2022] PA Environment Digest For more information and available handouts, visit the Environmental Quality Board webpage.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Board also approved a final regulation setting RACT (Reasonably Available Control Technology Standards) for major sources of nitrogen oxides. Both Part I and Part II have to be finalized before December 16, 2022 to avoid the sanctions. Posted: August 9, 2022] PA Environment Digest Read more here.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2022

By replacing older polluting engines and equipment with new technologies, funded projects remove nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and hydrocarbon pollution from the air. Annually, the project will remove 1.38 Annually the project will remove 3.9 tons of NOx and other pollutants from the air.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

The Carl Moyer Grant Program also provides incentive funds (around $60 million/year) to private companies and public agencies to purchase cleaner-than-required engines, equipment, and emission-reduction technologies for heavy-duty equipment. The IRA also provides up to $100,000 in assistance per commercial vehicle charger under Section 30C.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

The AFIG Program funds projects that replace older gasoline- or diesel-fueled vehicles with cleaner fuel vehicles that helps reduce emissions of carbon monoxide, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxides, and carbon dioxide, a principal greenhouse gas.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: May 16, 2022] PA Environment Digest Million Poconos Residents Support More Action To Protect ‘Exceptional Value’ Streams, New Poll Finds North Penn Water Authority, Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Hold May 20 Groundbreaking, May 21 Planting Day For Rain Garden Project In Skippack Twp.,

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2022

Setting Manganese Toxics Water Quality Standard, RACT For Major Sources Of Nitrogen Oxides [PaEN] -- Our Pocono Waters To Release Report On Economic Benefits Of PA's Special Protection Streams In The Poconos Aug. See webpage for remote options to join the meeting. Contact: Diana Welker diwelker@pa.gov.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2022

The rapid growth in heavy-duty electric vehicle technology is encouraging. It’s a vital missed opportunity that regulators are so out of step with the technology in this realm. The continued reductions in the price of batteries have also influenced the growth in model availability. Electric trucks deliver wide loads of benefits.

2030

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

A transition to 100 percent renewable energy is about more than just technology. Sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) and nitrogen oxides (NO x ) emissions from power plants in USCA states fall 88 and 77 percent respectively by 2040, compared with 27 and 18 percent under current policies and plans. by 2035 is needed.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. Last year, Congress passed the most ambitious climate bill ever enacted, the Inflation Reduction Act.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

But in an effort to skirt legal challenges, the new rule bases its limits largely on carbon capture and sequestration (“CCS”) and hydrogen co-firing such that individual power plants are able to continue operation if they adopt the appropriate control technologies.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

The air quality for this report was calculated using data reviewed by EPA from 2020, 2021, and 2022. That means it includes the extreme wildfires exacerbated by the fossil fuel industry that burned more than 4% of California in 2021 and 2022. come from burning fossil fuels and pesticide use, and ultrafine particles (PM0.1)

2024

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state. The ACF is an opportunity to deliver meaningful reductions in air pollution for the most affected communities, but the current proposal falls short of what is technologically and economically feasible.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

But a study published in the December 2022 issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health calculated that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7 A 2022 study found that gas stoves leak methane, and more than three-quarters of the emissions occurred when the stoves were off.

2013

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Electric truck technology is here , manufacturers are ready, charging infrastructure is growing at a fast pace, market demand for zero-emissions vehicles is increasing, and incentives are available for fleets to electrify. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

Climate Change

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. At the end of 2022, there were more than 283 million. In 1960, there were 61.6 That’s not healthy.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The EPA is getting ready to finalize a critical regulation limiting emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NO X ) and soot (or particulate matter, PM 2.5 ) from new heavy-duty trucks. Indefinite delay of more effective emissions technology could permanently impede the path towards cleaning up the diesel truck fleet.

Regulations

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. What can be done?

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S. and Sierra Club v.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2022

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Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2022

Fossil-fueled trucks, vans, and buses are a major source of climate-disrupting greenhouse gas emissions and nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM), and hazardous air pollutants that harm public health. Senate Democrats, Sen.

Nitrogen Oxides

Frontiers

JUNE 5, 2023

Frontiers Planet Prize: meet the International Champions Launched in 2022 by the Frontiers Research Foundation, the Frontiers Planet Prize aims to promote and recognize the scientists who will help Earth remain within the nine planetary boundaries described by Prof Johan Rockström in his keynote talk.

2023

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. EPA has considered electrification technologies in many past rulemakings and has used fleet average standards for decades. Transportation is now the source of 28% of U.S.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In 2022 and 2023, Honda effectively offered no EVs at all in California. Buyers showing up at Honda dealerships are seeing an automaker that has little to offer in EV options or distinctive technology and no track record of EV manufacturing. Note: table excludes 4 model year 2021 Honda Clarity PHEVs that were registered in 2022.

2026

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2022, installed wind and solar power more than tripled , according to American Clean Power. percent the three renewables generated in 2022 exceeded coal’s output— 19.5 EPA Supreme Court decision in 2022. Last year, wind generated 10.2 percent of US electricity and utility-scale solar generated 3.4

Fossil Fuels

ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

By Karl Mathiessen, Zia Weise and Joshua Posaner, PoliticoPro, 4/4/2022. Carbon dioxide removal — which encompasses methods ranging from natural processes like planting trees to technological solutions like direct air capture — is “unavoidable” to reach net-zero emissions, the authors said. Young died in March 2022.

2022

ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

2 trillion plan includes $50 billion to create a new technology directorate for NSF. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy forms Interagency Task Force on Scientific Integrity. . There is $180 billion pegged overall in the plan for investment in research and development and “technologies of the future.”.

2021

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The Biden-Harris Administration Day One Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis established an interagency working group to publish a revised interim Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) within 30 days and then to complete a final SCC by January 2022. discount rate.

Climate Change