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Why the Bay Area’s Zero-Emission Appliance Rule is a Big Deal

Legal Planet

Additionally, NOx react with other chemicals in the air to create other harmful pollutants, like fine particulate matter and ozone. The rule would ban most new gas water heaters (in new construction and replacements in homes) after 2027, gas furnaces after 2029, and large gas water heaters (in apartments and commercial buildings) after 2031.

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EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc., Hilcorp Energy Company For Federal, State Clean Air Act Violations

PA Environment Daily

“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.” Specifically, by Dec. million to plug or remediate them. Its operations stretch from the Great Plains to Appalachia.

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Changes to California’s Electric Truck Proposal Could Reap Huge Climate and Air Quality Gains

Union of Concerned Scientists

These fleets, those with more than 10 tractor trucks, are responsible for the lion’s share of emissions: about 85 percent of fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions and just under 90 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from all California tractors (see the pie charts below).

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A new cosmic dawn: peering across the universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

Physics World

With many of these transiting, habitable-zone planets, the JWST will be looking for biomarkers – the absorption signatures of oxygen, water, carbon dioxide, ozone, methane and indeed anything else that could be produced by living creatures or indicate a potentially life-supporting environment.

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ESA Policy News: October 24, 2022

ESA

Rob Portman (R-OH) reauthorizes the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Act through FY 2027 and authorizes $20 million a year for the program. EPA – Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and CASAC Ozone Review Panel (Nov. Another amendment from Sen.

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Policy News: October 10, 2022

ESA

9135 ) reauthorizing the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act through FY 2027 and increasing the authorized funding for the program from $20 million in FY 2023 to FY 2027 $25 million in FY 2027. EPA – Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and CASAC Ozone Review Panel (Nov.

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

ESA

2027 ) and Rural STEM Education Research Act ( H.R. This body will review the EPA’s scientific review of current ozone pollution standards. In 2019, the Trump administration opted to keep ozone pollution standards the same. The bill also includes the Combating Sexual Harassment in Science Act ( H.R.

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