Breezometer
AUGUST 16, 2021
Levels of Ground-level Ozone Pollution Can Increase in Summer. As ground-level ozone requires the presence of sunlight to form, high heat and sunny weather can function to increase concentrations of this particular pollutant. , releasing choking black smog across Russia’s North-Eastern region.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
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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HumanNature
JANUARY 30, 2025
Guest Post by Tucker Melles , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation. Secondary organic aerosol is important because it makes up a significant fraction of particulate matter.[5]
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 14, 2021
On October 14, the Department of Environmental Protection presented a proposed regulation that would adopt California’s existing Zero Emission Vehicle Program that requires 22 percent of the new passenger and light duty vehicle fleets offered for sale in the state be zero emission vehicles starting in model year 2025.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The commitments under the settlements will significantly reduce pollution from these companies’ operations, including volatile organic compounds that contribute to ground-level ozone, and methane, a potent greenhouse gas.” Its operations stretch from the Great Plains to Appalachia.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 15, 2024
For more on other harmful aspects of Project 2025, see this blog. The Heritage Foundation’s blueprint—Project 2025—to dramatically alter the US Environmental Protection Agency should concern you. Project 2025 takes aim at all those protections. Project 2025 takes aim at grants, as well. It does me.
Columbia Climate Law
DECEMBER 2, 2019
Methane also contributes to the formation of ground-level ozone which is itself a heat-trapping greenhouse gas and, when inhaled by humans, can trigger a variety of health problems from throat irritation and coughing to bronchitis, asthma, and reduced lung function.
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