Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
When we breathe the air or drink the water, we’re taking in any potential contaminants all at once—with effects that can combine or even compound. So, incrementally, environmental protection is becoming more like real life, where exposures are not singular and isolated. It’s important to look at the bigger picture.
Breezometer
OCTOBER 31, 2021
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ozone can inflame the cells that line a child’s upper airways and lungs, harming the respiratory system “like a sunburn damages the skin.” Repeated and excessive traffic pollution and poor air quality were determined to be linked to Ella's worsening asthma.
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PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on a new State Only Minor Air Quality Operating Permit for the continued operation of the ETC Northeast Pipeline LLC [Energy Transfer] Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Processing Plant in Salem Township, Washington County. (
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The Supreme Court heard arguments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) interstate air pollution rule Wednesday, with members of the court’s liberal minority expressing skepticism about the appropriateness of hearing the case but the conservative majority seeming amenable to blocking the rule.
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.
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.
Frontiers
JULY 6, 2021
A new epidemiological study by the open access publisher Frontiers is the first to show that the risk of developing dysmenorrhea increases by more than 30 times for women and girls who are exposed long-term to air pollutants such as carbon and nitrogen oxides and fine particulate matter. Air pollutants are an important new risk factor.
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