PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2024

AFIG aims to increase sustainable and renewable energy throughout Pennsylvania's transportation sector, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality for many communities," said DEP Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley. "A Applications for the second round of 2024 projects will be accepted until December 20, 2024.

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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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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

JANUARY 18, 2024

In Pennsylvania, 47 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions come from gasoline and diesel vehicles, and transportation contributes up to 22 percent of Pennsylvania's overall greenhouse gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2022

The good news is five states – Washington, Oregon, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, – have adopted California’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulation, which requires manufacturers to sell an increasing percentage of zero-emissions medium- and heavy-duty trucks, beginning in 2024.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule would require the largest, most profitable, and most polluting commercial fleets in the state to begin transitioning to electric trucks in 2024, eventually requiring that the state’s largest fleets purchase only 100 percent zero-emissions in 2042. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 21, 2023

Over $150 million in President Biden’s proposed 2024 budget would fund dredging projects and flood mitigation studies throughout Michigan. trillion proposed budget for the 2024 fiscal year includes $157 million for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a plan to expand toxic sediment dumping grounds.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2024

This growing network of warehouses and the freight vehicles that serve them contribute significantly to a community’s greenhouse gas emissions and exposure to harmful pollutants like nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and particulate matter. Beginning in 2024, only ZEV trucks may be registered.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Flaring, demonstrated in the photo on the right, is the uncontrolled burning of excess or unwanted petroleum pools such as, excuse me, flaring can be a significant source of air pollution such as nitrogen oxides and greenhouse gas emissions. As of mid-2024, there are over 12,800 unconventional wells drilled in the state.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

UCS/S&P Global Mobility 2024 This growth has been impressive, but it didnt happen in a vacuum. emissions, and just under 15 percent of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions from the states on-road vehicles. The rule also allows manufacturers to bank credits generated from ZET sales that occurred before the rule goes into effect.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency show that CO2 accounts for the vast majority of heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted by the U.S. It will likely also require widespread use of the captured greenhouse gas in manufacturing of chemicals, industrial products and even new energy production. Studies by the U.S. from 1990–2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trump is targeting both federal and CA vehicle standards in his recent executive order standards that not only reduce climate emissions but also slash air pollutants like nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. Undermining these rules will have major negative environmental, health, energy, and consumer impacts. In the U.S.,

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