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New Environmental Laws Focus on Public Health

Legal Planet

A notable veto, Assemblymember Gail Pellerin’s AB 2513 , which would have required warning labels on gas stoves regarding their health impacts stating “WARNING: Gas stoves can release nitrogen dioxide, benzene, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and other harmful pollutants into the air, which can be toxic to people and pets.

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Sen. Culver Commends Progress Extinguishing Wilburton Coal Bank Fire In Columbia County

PA Environment Daily

Environmental Protection Agency install air quality monitors to detect levels of carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and particulates. Posted: February 24, 2025] PA Environment Digest Culver in response to resident concerns, including impacts on air quality. Click Here for Sen. Culvers announcement.

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Emissions by the Big Utilities: Where They Are, What They’re Aiming For

Legal Planet

For convenience, I lumped coal and oil together as “very high carbon” sources (VHC) in the table. Carbon Goal. 67% cut from 2005 by 2025. Carbon Reduction Goal : Reduce CO2 emissions rate by 67% by 2025 from an adjusted 2005 baseline. Carbon Reduction Goals: Net-zero carbon monoxide and methane emissions by 2050.

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DEP, Local Partners To Hold 5 Outreach Sessions For Input Into Priority Climate Action Plan Initiatives Starting Dec. 4

PA Environment Daily

DEP has received $3 million in Federal grants to fund the creation of a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) by March 1, 2024, and a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) by July 1, 2025. The PCAP will include ways to reduce GHG emissions that could be put into effect quickly.

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House Environmental Committee Reports Out Bill To Require DEP To Consider Cumulative Impacts Of Certain New Sources Of Pollution On Already Impacted Communities

PA Environment Daily

The amendment would cover pollution from major oil and gas infrastructure and pipelines, power plants and many other facilities that emit these air pollutants.

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Team PA & Clean Air Task Force Convene Leaders To Discuss Challenges, Opportunities Of Industrial Decarbonization; DOE Provides Update On Decarbonization Investments In PA

PA Environment Daily

The program will be accepting applications in 2025 with three separate categories based on whether the applicant is a small, medium or large business. And in June, we announced $16 million in funding for the large-scale conversion of carbon dioxide emissions into valuable products.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

Black carbon is one type of airborne particulate matter (PM), which is a title for all the microscopic solid and liquid particles suspended in our air. vehicles, cook stoves, oil and gas processing, and wildfires to name a few), there will be black carbon.