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Ask a Scientist: UCS Transportation Program Adds Equitable Mobility to its Portfolio

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. Cars and trucks are a lot cleaner than when I was growing up.

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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Two new laws address this issue on different fronts.

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Colorado Law Will Lead the Nation in Reducing GHGs from Buildings

Greenbuilding Law

As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. As part of its target methodology , the state determined about 40% of the 8,000 buildings covered under the program already meet standards for the 2026 target.

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Marcellus Drilling News: Rain City Resources, Kendra II Agree To Set Up Pilot Plant To Extract Lithium From Marcellus Shale Wastewater In Susquehanna County

PA Environment Daily

The announcement says the agreement provides ALC the opportunity to demonstrate its proprietary DLE technology in the field following a series of successful bench tests at their base in Calgary. We look forward to establishing Rain and the ACCELi technology as the pre-eminent low cost, commercial DLE company.

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

Units with existing advanced NOx controls must optimize their utilization by 2023. The history of the Clean Act clearly shows that Congress intended state-of-the-art controls such as SCRs to be applied to new sources through New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and Best Available Control Technology (BACT) reviews in clean air areas.

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Cities & the Inflation Reduction Act

Law Columbia

billion for a competitive grant and rebate program for the purpose of “purchas[ing] or install[ing] zero-emissions port equipment or technology” at ports. Funds from this appropriation may also be awarded for planning and permitting relating to such zero-emission equipment and technology, and for a port’s climate action planning.

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EPA Pulls Back Regulations Setting Methane Emission Limits, Regulating Wastewater From Oil & Gas Operations, Risk Management Rule At Petrochemical Plants

PA Environment Daily

The Clean Water Act requires EPA to revise industry-wide wastewater treatment limits, called effluent limitations guidelines, to keep pace with innovations in pollution control technology. Technologies to treat produced water to a quality for safe discharge and reuse have become more effective and affordable.