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Environmental Groups File Notice Of Intent To Sue The Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations: Similar Action In 2023 Resulted In $10 Million Settlement

PA Environment Daily

and nitrogen oxides in violation of the federal Clean Air Act, the state Air Pollution Control Act and the plant's permit. "As Not The First Action On February 2, 2023 and February 17, 2024 , these same groups filed two notices of intent to sue the Shell Petrochemical Plant, again over air pollution violations.

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Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections

PA Environment Daily

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet on November 12 to consider a proposed regulation on notification of spills, corrections to Air Quality regulations on RACT requirements for nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds and final-omitted regulations on noncoal mine blasting.

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Environmental Quality Board Approves Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; NOx & VOC Corrections For Comment; Blasting Reg

PA Environment Daily

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. Also approved was a final-omitted regulations on noncoal mine blasting.

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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Compiled by UCS from Energy Information Administration data as of January 2023. The general outlook includes some good news and some bad news.

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Delivery Vans are Going Electric: Where and Why

Union of Concerned Scientists

Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs), like the big rigs on our highways and the vans that deliver our packages, make up just over 1 in 10 of the vehicles on our roads, but are responsible for over half of ozone-forming nitrogen oxide pollution and lung-damaging fine particulate pollution from on-road vehicles.

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Has Gasoline Use in California Peaked?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Gasoline use in 2023 in California dropped about 15 percent from a peak in 2005, with consumption dropping over two billion gallons per year Annual gasoline consumption per person in California has also dropped, from almost 450 gallons per year per person to below 350 gallons per person. billion gallons were sold in the state.

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California Ready to Take Giant Leap Toward Zero-Emission Trucks

Union of Concerned Scientists

In late April, California air regulators are poised to pass one of the most meaningful regulations to reduce pollution from commercial trucks, vans, and buses. The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule, which I’ve blogged about in detail before, will phase out fossil-fueled trucks over the next several decades. There are more than 1.8