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Air Pollution Related Topics 
Legal Planet
JULY 25, 2022
For instance, the much maligned RECLAIM program in Southern California cut emissions by 20% compared to firms outside the program, with all groups experiencing air pollution reductions. Blacks received greater pollution reductions than whites, but Hispanics received fewer. Download as PDF.
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Yale E360
JUNE 28, 2023
A drop in air pollution in India at the height of the coronavirus pandemic slowed the melting of snow in the Himalayas, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →
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Yale E360
JANUARY 21, 2022
Air pollution may be making it harder for bees and other insects to follow the scent of flowers, reducing pollination by as much as a third, new research suggests. Read more on E360 ?.
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New Scientist
JUNE 20, 2024
air pollution An aerial survey of Los Angeles reveals that high temperatures cause plants to emit more compounds that can contribute to harmful ozone and PM2.5
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Scientific American
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
As EPA tightens air pollution standards for particulate matter, new research suggests some components of that pollution could worsen with climate change
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Yale E360
OCTOBER 9, 2023
As temperatures rise, warmer weather will spur some trees to release a chemical known to worsen air quality, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →
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Yale E360
OCTOBER 25, 2022
By tweeting real-time local pollution data in developing countries, U.S. embassies helped spur measurable improvements in air quality, a new study finds. Read more on E360 ?.
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Cleannovate
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
In the midst of our bustling urban jungles, indoor sanctuaries, and industrial landscapes, the air we breathe is far from pristine. The air pollution crisis is not just an environmental concern; it’s a silent assailant affecting our health, quality of life, and the very air we depend […]
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 15, 2021
for air pollution. Baltimore has two active trash incinerators and decades of pollution from both active and decommissioned industrial factories. A study by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in 2017 found air quality in the region was ranked moderate or worse one of every three days, […].
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PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 31, 2024
On October 23, 2024, the Clean Air Council and the Environment Integrity Project filed a notice of intent to sue the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for emitting particulate matter (PM 2.5) and nitrogen oxides in violation of the federal Clean Air Act, the state Air Pollution Control Act and the plant's permit. "As
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New Scientist
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Air pollution has been linked to eczema before, and now a study of more than 280,000 people has strengthened the association
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 6, 2023
As early as 1966 , the state began to take regulatory action to reduce pollution from passenger cars and trucks. As a result of continuing progress on regulations, the air-polluting emissions of new passenger vehicles currently for sale are thankfully much lower than those of older vehicles. Combining the PM 2.5
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Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
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Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Emissions from diesel trucks and buses don’t just release higher levels of air pollution, they are also local in their effects and in Oregon disproportionately impact low-income individuals.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 26, 2022
California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.
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PA Environment Daily
JUNE 6, 2024
On June 4, the Clean Air Council said US Steel is taking steps to comply with the lawsuit settlement to reduce harmful air pollution from the Clairton Coke [Coal] Works in Allegheny County. The lawsuit was filed in response to thousands of violations of air pollution limits after the massive fire at U.S.
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New Scientist
APRIL 11, 2024
Ground-level ozone, a product of pollution from cars, degrades insect pheromones, and this can result in mismatched mating and sterile offspring
New Scientist
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Insects may be finding it harder to locate flowers because the scent molecules released by the flowers smell different after they react with pollutants in the air
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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 22, 2022
California’s air pollution regulator, the Air Resources Board, is poised to adopt one of the most important steps that the state has ever taken to reduce exposure to air pollution and limit climate changing emissions. Source: California Air Resources Board GHG Emissions Inventory Data.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 13, 2024
So of course the American Lung Association ’s yearly report, State of the Air (SOTA), published every year since 2000, is of professional and personal interest. The air quality for this report was calculated using data reviewed by EPA from 2020, 2021, and 2022. We cannot change the topography.
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NRDC
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Renewable Rikers coalition tells DEC that Rikers power plant permit conflicts with both city law mandating closure of Rikers jails by 2027 and state climate law
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Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Children in communities of color and low-income communities were more highly exposed to air pollution. Interactions: Babies living in economically disinvested neighborhoods in their first year of life and exposed to air pollution were more likely to be diagnosed with autism.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 2, 2024
Air pollution from ports comes from many sources: ships, trains, tugboats, cargo equipment, and – quite importantly – the trucks that move cargo containers to and from ports. Because drayage trucks tend to be among the oldest tractor trucks on the road, they tend to pollute at greater rates than other tractors.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
This process requires the facilities’ reports to include a section for each health impact associated with the air pollutants they will emit. Thanks to this requirement, Minnesota found that companies actually reduced their planned air pollution level (in their permits) to decrease the size and complexity of the report.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 10, 2023
Burning gas and coal leads to carbon dioxide emissions and air pollutants. Air pollutants contribute to all of the leading causes of death, such as heart disease, strokes, cancer, and respiratory illness. Now we have increasing evidence air pollution contributes to dementia as well.
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New Scientist
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Pollutants from wildfire smoke can remain inside homes for weeks, but vacuuming, mopping and dusting result in lower levels of volatile compounds in the air
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 27, 2021
Low or zero emission zones, which prioritize the use of cleaner vehicles, are a promising tool in benefitting communities disproportionately burdened by air pollution.
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Yale E360
JANUARY 27, 2022
Once known as the “City of Smoke,” Pittsburgh has come a long way since the days when filthy air turned downtown streets dark at mid-day. But in struggling communities near the remaining steel plants, high levels of air pollution — and the resulting health hazards — persist. Read more on E360 ?.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Switching from gasoline and diesel engines to electric motors is one of the most effective ways to reduce both global warming emissions and air pollution. UCS supports Proposition 30 because it will reduce air pollution and global-warming emissions in the state. Who supports Proposition 30 and why?
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Legal Planet
DECEMBER 19, 2023
With the backdrop of the first-ever Health Day at the annual UN climate conference, air quality in Dubai soared, as PM2.5 pollution reached 155 micrograms per cubic unit. Air pollution is harmful to human health as it exacerbates and causes an increase in health issues, like respiratory illnesses. I was wrong.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 20, 2024
To compare air quality impact of different school bus types, the tailpipe and upstream pollution over the lifetime of operating a school was converted to a monetary value of the associated health impacts. Electric school buses are the best choice for reducing emissions that pollute our air and harm our health.
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PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Resources Links - Revolution Cryogenic Plant: -- Observer-Reporter: Explosion, Fire At Energy Transfer’s Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Plant Burned For Nearly 11 Hours On Christmas Day In Smith Twp., Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Ongoing Explosion/Fire Investigation: Energy Transfer Reported An Uncontrolled Release Of Ethane For 9.5
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 16, 2021
Climate champs Senators Whitehouse and Schatz introduced a solutions-oriented bill today that would put a price on emissions of heat-trapping gases as well as criteria air pollutants and use the revenues to mitigate the impacts of the policy on consumers, workers, and communities.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 18, 2021
The world must reach net-negative CO2 emissions by midcentury, not only to slow the pace of climate change, but to reduce the millions deaths yearly from fossil fuel air pollution. Much of the burden of our energy choices falls on Black and brown communities.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 18, 2024
Under the Clean Air Act, EPA is required to review and revise standards for “hazardous air pollutants” (including ethylene oxide), every eight years. All communities exposed to EtO and other hazardous air pollutants must be afforded protections from harmful emissions.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 2, 2022
A key step towards addressing climate change and air quality. Cleaning up heavy-duty vehicles is one of the most consequential tasks in reducing climate-warming greenhouse gases and toxic air pollution from the transportation sector.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Much of this air pollution comes from diesel trucks rumbling along the state’s many highway corridors, in particular I-95 which connects many major cities along the East Coast. This all makes Maryland one of the deadliest states for diesel particulate pollution.
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PA Environment Daily
JULY 24, 2024
On April 12, 2024, the Shell Petrochemical Plant requested the Department of Environmental Protection to classify the composition and flow rate of gases going to be burned off at flares and the air pollution sources and pollution control equipment operating at the Beaver County facility confidential business information.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
These standards are critical to reduce air pollution and to help curb climate change , and they are in part based on the demonstrated increasing availability of EVs. So why are we hearing so much about it right now? The answer might lie in the emissions standards proposed by the EPA for cars and trucks earlier this year.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 14, 2023
Among the commenters was my colleague Sam Wilson , who passionately and effectively called on the EPA to follow the science and enact the strongest air pollution standards to protect people’s health. pollution, half of the deaths are attributable to the burning of fossil fuels. pollution is, even at low levels of concentration.
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Legal Planet
MAY 18, 2023
One thing to note is that the trigger is whether the facility would cause pollution in a disadvantaged community, not whether it is located there. So any ban on new air pollution sources would apply not in the community but upwind. That traffic would add to local air pollution.
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Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
One issue in the Seven Counties case is whether the impact statement should discuss air pollution caused by refining the oil shipped over the proposed rail line. The argument is that the Board shouldn’t have to consider that because EPA has authority to regulate air pollution, not the Board.
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Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Our reliance on petroleum-based transportation fuels represents California’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, by far, and will continue to be until the 2040s, even as we transition to zero emission cars and trucks.
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Legal Planet
MARCH 15, 2023
Gas stoves are a significant driver of childhood asthma , leaking methane even while turned off and releasing as much nationwide climate pollution each year as 500,000 cars. Furnaces and water heaters are even bigger polluters, with major contributions to outdoor air pollution in the Bay Area. Richard Trumka Jr.,
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