PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Before being cut, real Christmas trees absorb air pollutants and sequester carbon dioxide and emit fresh oxygen. Important to water quality, the trees stabilize soil and reduce erosion, reducing polluted runoff by filtering and absorbing pollutants that would otherwise flow into local rivers and streams.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. The closest we’ve ever come to a carbon tax is a limited fee on methane emissions under the new IRA law. It wouldn’t require placing bets on what zero carbon technologies will win out.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

May 11, the Environmental Integrity Project and Clean Air Council filed a federal lawsuit against the Shell Petrochemical Plant for repeatedly violating permitted air pollution limits from a massive new plastics production plant in Beaver County, which opened last year. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. First, there’s air pollution. Its primary component is methane.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Community solar will grow Pennsylvanias capacity to get energy from the sun, which will improve air quality and reduce our reliance on more polluting energy sources, said Alice Lu, Policy Analyst at Clean Air Council. Yet they are still a reliable and affordable source of energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Their study examined the carbon dioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In this case, standing and the causal link seem to be an obstacle for the citizens as the judges did not recognize the plaintiffs standing in relation to climate change and carbon dioxide emissions while recognizing the standing for air pollution. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

And all this polluting infrastructure has serious health and environmental implications for the surrounding communities. Air pollution Gas-fueled power plants and compressor stations release emissions that pollute local air and have dangerous health impacts to nearby residents.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Oil and gas companies are proposing the widespread use of carbon capture to deal with their increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Learn more about carbon capture – and why it isn’t a climate solution – here. Numerous counties have passed temporary moratoriums on carbon pipelines given the health and safety risks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

The shift from fossil fuels in the 100-percent RES scenario reduces the amount of toxic power plant air pollution much more than what we called a “no-new-policy,” or business-as-usual, scenario. Emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants in alliance states drop 88 percent and 77 percent respectively by 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Oil and gas major ConocoPhillips’ website says gas is “one of the safest and cleanest fuels available” and that when it is burned, it “produces mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor—the same substances emitted when humans exhale.” Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. at 528–529. 7411(b)(1)(B); see also §7411(a)(2). Post, at 20. American Elec. Power , 564 U.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

GHG Emissions by Sector Climate changes pollution and pollution changes climate Another reason to look at the global warming impacts of refineries from a health perspective is that there is an important link between global warming and local pollution. Bermix Studio/Unsplash PM2.5: A subset of these particles, called PM2.5,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted. In other words, both industries intend to keep producing ever more of their products—and therefore increasing overall pollution— just with each unit of product having slightly lower emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

Over the year, those plants emitted 661 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, more than 13% of the US’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Because unlike moving sources of air pollution like cars, gas plants are completely stationary. Why is this inequitable and disproportionate siting a problem?

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. This gave EPA the power to impose limits on carbon emissions by vehicles and industry. UARG involved a regulation that required industry to cut carbon emissions for new facilities. Illinois Central Railroad v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. pollution, which are particles with diameters of 2.5 micrometers or less. million deaths globally.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

There are different regulations and often different regulators for impacts from coal mining on public lands, private lands, carbon dioxide emissions from combustion, methane emissions from mines, particular emissions, sulfur dioxide emissions, etc. Fossil fuels are a case in point. Consider coal.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Air pollutants from coal plants are linked to chronic heart and respiratory disease, and a host of acute ailments. Thermal coal, which refers to coal used to produce electricity, produces dangerous amounts of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. million cars.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Last year, Alex led a team of researchers in developing a policy report focused on lessons from California’s climate and air pollution policies. Ted’s world-leading research project on the governance of geoengineering examines law and policy issues presented by solar geoengineering and carbon dioxide removal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Not least among these include the fundamental misalignment of building out long-lived fossil fuel infrastructure that is entirely incompatible with long-term climate commitments—nor the fact that on both sides of the Atlantic, such long-lived infrastructure will first take multiple years to construct.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 18, 2024

Included in that original bill was an ending of subsidies for expansions of gas distribution systems within the state—an important and significant step in stopping the growth of carbon dioxide and methane emissions from the state’s buildings sector. of childhood asthma cases nationally are attributable to gas stove pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Besides higher monthly bills, the two 1950s-era coal plants are responsible for significant air and climate pollution as well as toxic coal ash. 6 was enacted, the plants have emitted more than 29 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 28,000 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 16,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SOx).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2024

Clair just 35 kilometers to the west, which is already burdened with major pollution problems. Concern: Air pollution The landfill will also create air pollution and odours that will be noticeable through the surrounding area and the neighbouring agricultural community of Dresden.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

These pipelines run through many of our neighborhoods, exposing us and our loved ones to methane pollution. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is roughly 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, fuels extreme weather across the country by trapping heat in the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Improving ventilation and air purification will have an overall benefit of reducing risk of infection for a multitude of illnesses. Indoor air quality is also significant for general health; 3.2 million premature deaths occur globally each year due to household air pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Tailpipes from our cars, trucks and buses are also a major source of toxic local air pollution that disproportionately harms overburdened and underserved communities. An average global temperature change greater than 1.5 Reducing emissions from our vehicles is a huge part of this.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

The total civil penalty assessments include $350,000 for air quality violations, which is the maximum civil penalty assessment allowable under the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act, and $764,000 pursuant to Pennsylvania’s oil and gas and solid waste laws.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

These projects can exacerbate air pollution, put stress on watersheds, risk groundwater contamination, and cause dangerous leaks and explosions. Since 2010, there have been 76 incidents involving carbon dioxide pipelines in the US. Questions have also been raised about who is paying for this multi-billion dollar project.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

In the complaint, the Plaintiffs argued that they were likely to suffer damage from air pollution and the emissions of greenhouse gases by the coal-fired power plants and those would violate personal rights or the right to a peaceful life of the Plaintiffs. Kobelco Power Kobe No. and Kansai Electric Power Co.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

And remember, almost none of the country’s coal plants are economic anymore, and further, some of them aren’t even compliant with current air quality standards set by the EPA years ago. Methane leaks are rampant along the entire gas supply chain, and research repeatedly shows that the problem is worse than previously thought.

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Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

This week’s advancements offer two new models for local governments looking to require or promote building electrification: air pollution and land use regulation. 2317, which would amend the City’s building code to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new and renovated buildings to 50 kilograms of carbon dioxide per million BTUs.

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Acoel

AUGUST 17, 2021

The post Agricultural Air Pollution: A Brief Reprise appeared first on ACOEL. So, Margo and I just continue to exercise our personal, and globally meaningless, method of emission control by eating Beyond Burgers© that are made from peas.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The pollutants included in these additional penalties were-- volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, hazardous air pollutants and “other pollutants,” excluding carbon dioxide emissions. Paragraph 14.b b of the May 24, 2023 Consent Order and Agreement-- -- $521,549.62

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- Columbia Gas Transmission - Iowa Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on an Air Quality Plan Approval covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Pine Creek Twp., Greene County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Washington County. ( Beaver County. (

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Nearly a third of our current carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions come from burning fossil gas for electricity, home heating and other uses! A new report explains how the provincial government can do just that, while also creating jobs and growing the economy. Reserve hydrogen and gas from renewable sources (e.g.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The cities argued that the regulation would prevent them from imposing restrictions on the circulation of passenger vehicles in relation to their air pollutant emissions. Attorney General , the High Court of New Zealand dismissed claims from Māori plaintiffs against the government for failing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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