PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

b of the May 24, 2023 order [ page 25 ], Shell agreed to the assessment of civil penalties for future violations of 12-month air emission limitations occurring after April 2023 and before January 2024. on January 18, 2024” These penalties totaled $2,671,044.75. on January 18, 2024” These penalties totaled $2,671,044.75.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. Gasoline use per person has also fallen, from 445 gallons per year per person in 2005, to under 350 gallons per year per person in 2024. billion gallons were sold in the state.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

tons of nitrogen oxide emissions in 2023. Request To Burn Tires To Fuel Its Cryptocurrency Mining Operation At The Panther Creek Power Plant [PaEN] [Posted: March 28, 2024] PA Environment Digest The Nesquehoning site burns waste coal and tires to produce electricity for its bitcoin mining operation. These fuels produced 430.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Comments due March 8. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 3 PA Bulletin inviting comments on proposed 2024 Ozone Season Nitrogen Oxide Emission Limits for Nonelectric Generating Units. Contact Laura Chambers at lchambers@pa.gov or 717-772-5158. Deadline March 29.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

b of the May 24, 2023 order [ page 25 ], Shell agreed to the assessment of civil penalties for future violations of 12-month air emission limitations occurring after April 2023 and before January 2024. on January 18, 2024” These penalties totaled $7,606,067.75. on January 18, 2024” These penalties totaled $7,606,067.75.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This regulation, called the Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule, has the potential to deliver significant reductions in both air and climate-warming pollutants by requiring the state’s largest and most profitable commercial and public fleets to transition to electric trucks, vans, and buses over time, beginning in 2024.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

These fees generate more than $100 million per year to fund zero emission vehicle (ZEV) incentives, electric vehicle chargers and hydrogen fueling stations through the Air Quality Improvement Program (AQIP), Clean Transportation Program (CTP), and Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program (EFMP).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

These parts have three high-level impacts: Increasing electric truck purchase requirements for large commercial, federal, state, and municipal fleets, beginning as early as 2024 and ramping up to a 100-percent zero-emission fleet requirement in 2042, based on vehicle category. pollution from vehicles. There are more than 1.8

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program provides $5 billion in grants to states, local governments, tribes, and territories to develop and implement ambitious plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollution. billion for competitive implementation grants. When will enforcement begin?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

The federal Clean Air Act and US Environmental Protection Agency regulations require that a facility submit a Title V Operating Permit application within 12 months of commencing operation. In February, 2024, DEP confirmed Shell paid an additional $2,671,044.75 12,671,044.75 12,671,044.75 Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

pollution from vehicles. Among this fleet of trucks and buses, tractor trucks are, by far, the most significant polluters – although just about 1 in 10 medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, they’re responsible for around half of all emissions from the state’s fleet. There are more than 1.8

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

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). The OVEC coal bailouts, which the PUCO approved in 2014, were set to expire in 2024 and only applied to utility customers who had a stake in OVEC.

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Renewable Energy Nitrogen Oxides Electricity Clean Energy 356

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. This is the first time EPA has sought to limit emissions in over two decades, and it is long overdue.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 27 PA Bulletin inviting public comments on a proposed declaration of an Exceptional Air Quality Event due to 2023 wildfires from Canada and New Jersey causing elevated levels of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds impacting ozone pollution in Pennsylvania.

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Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides Ozone 2023 118

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But while greenhouse gas emissions may be reduced, a delivery fulfilled by a diesel-burning truck may lead to increases in emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and lung-damaging particulate matter. Companies like Pepsi have successfully deployed electric tractor trucks carrying payloads up to 82,000 lbs.

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Nitrogen Oxides Electricity Fossil Fuels Air Pollution 311

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2022

While pollution from electricity generation is still significant, the pollution per mile traveled for EVs electric vehicles is significantly less for over 90 percent of US drivers. Heavy-duty vehicles have an outsized impact on climate change and air pollution. States play a major role in electric truck adoption.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

The elimination of coal-fired power plants and increased use of natural gas in power generation has led to historic emissions and air pollutant reductions equaling $450 billion to $1.04 Environmental Protection Agency methodologies to assign a dollar value to each ton of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide reduced.

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Natural Gas Nitrogen Oxides 2005 Air Pollution 123

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

To Host Electronics Waste Recycling Event April 27 In Schuylkill County -- Independence Conservancy Holds Community Tire Collections In Allegheny, Beaver Counties Starting April 27 [PaEN] -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Allegheny CleanWays April 27 Event Needs Help To Clear Debris From Stormwater Grates -- Asbury Woods Environmental Center In Erie (..)

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