Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Getting energy from where it’s produced to where it’s needed. Unlocking the gridlock for Minnesota’s renewable energy future.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While municipalities may have some flexibility in how they zone or regulate oil and gas operations – provided they do not exceed limitations in state or federal law – doing so in an unreasonable manner which prevents future natural gas development should render the municipality ineligible for state collected and distributed impact fees.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

Paul Arbaje is an energy analyst in the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and an expert on electricity policies and reforms that reduce fossil fuel use and reliance. The energy enthusiast who owns their own homes can take further steps toward making their homes completely free of direct fossil fuel use.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A growing body of scientific evidence supports regulating chemicals with similar structures, functions, and impacts as a chemical class rather than one pollutant at a time. This is particularly important for pesticides since active ingredients are regulated while so-called “inert ingredients” are normally not.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

First, there’s air pollution. Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality. Exposure to NOx and other gas infrastructure air pollutants has been associated with respiratory illnesses and an increase in childhood asthma rates.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Upcoming research from my colleague Dave Cooke shows that electric delivery trucks can reduce climate-warming emissions from driving by up to 92 percent and reduce lifecycle public health impacts by up to 85 percent compared to today’s average fossil-fueled delivery trucks.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The jobs did not come, and while the price of gas didn’t go up, air and water pollution sure did. That means they are going to politicians with their hand out to receive more of your tax dollars with nothing to show for it except receipts from past failures like leaking pipelines, harmful air pollution, and dangerous explosions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

The Public Utility Commission does not have jurisdiction over this pipeline to regulate it for safety, construction or operations because it is related to gas production. The PUC estimates there are between 60,000 and 100,000 miles of gas gathering pipelines in 33 counties, many not mapped.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. However the long term drop in per person gasoline use is likely due to fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards that have made gasoline vehicles more efficient over the prior decades.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 25, 2025

The Centennial State may become first in the nation to require retailers to warn consumers that burning fossil fuels releases air pollutants and greenhouse gases, known … Continue reading In Colorado, gas for cars could soon come with a warning label

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Indeed, EPA still retains the ability to set strong standards that curtail carbon pollution at the scale, speed, and rigor required.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

Act 214 regulates the drilling and plugging of oil and gas wells where they intersect underground coal mining operations. Use DEPs Oil and Gas Mapping Tool to map this well by using the Latitude 39.992686 and Longitude -80.25862600000001 from the inspection report.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

Families like mine are in danger because of MarkWests Harmon Creek facility, which has a history of violating protective air pollution regulations while processing fracked ethane gas for use in the overproduction of plastics.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

California’s leadership on reducing truck pollution has been on full display the past few years, passing critical regulations requiring 90 percent reduction in smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NO X ) emissions from diesel trucks and requiring manufacturers sell an increasing share of electric trucks to move away from fossil fuels altogether.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way). Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) projects that 50 percent of US passenger car sales could very well be electric by 2030.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 4, 2023

In the coming years, Californians will begin to see a massive switch away from highly polluting fossil-fueled trucks to zero-emission electric trucks. Additionally, the rule phases out the sale of fossil-fueled trucks in 2036. The rule will apply to commercial, federal, state, municipal, and drayage fleets.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Respected bodies like the International Energy Agency have been clear – there is no room for new fossil fuel infrastructure if we want to hold warming to 1.5 Along with their contribution to larger climate change impacts, gas plants also cause local air pollution – mainly nitrogen oxides and particulate matter.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

. -- New Castle Power, LLC - New Castle Natural Gas Power Plant: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a Title V Air Quality Permit for the facility located in Taylor Twp., Youll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Lawrence County. ( Lycoming County. Received March 26, Issued April 21. (

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

McKean County [PaEN] -- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Fracking Gas-Powered Cryptocurrency Mining Operation In PA Shuts Down Without A Word To Regulators, Site Found Abandoned -- Gov. Greene County [PaEN] -- Conventional Oil Well Storage Tank Rupture Causes 2,100 Gallon Spill Of Wastewater, Crude Oil In Upper Burrell Twp.,

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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. First, by setting an air emissions standard, it limits preemption risk by the U.S. The New York City bill is tailored to avoid preemption in two main ways.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

On April 30, Senate Bill 1174 (Stefano-R-Fayette) was reported out of the Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee with unanimous Republican support that would allow any “public utility” to petition the Public Utility Commission to waive any law, regulation or policy under the Commission’s jurisdiction, if it benefits ratepayers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. Today, sales in California not only far exceed these targets, but ahead of schedule, because regulators in part underestimated how fast technology would improve. ). By making historic investments in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

The air monitoring study is set to begin today, May 1, marking the start of a multi-year air monitoring campaign designed to comprehensively assess the air emissions of gas well development from construction through production. will be monitored close to the well pad through the duration of the air monitoring project.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

Hill also noted the company has been under investigation by the Office of Attorney General for possible state Solid Waste Management Act violations over road dumping of their wastewater under the co-product determination process in DEPs Residual Waste Regulations. Read more here. I've got brine from that well." Its the same stuff.]

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

The study cites increased noise, air pollution, and traffic associated with gas sites as the culprits of higher levels of heart patient hospitalizations. Though the new regulations offer a range of acceptable setback distances, no facilities may be sited less than 2,000 feet from an occupied building. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We need to plan for energy infrastructure that supports our economy and reduces harmful air pollution. These firms recognized that they could not assume the risks of exacerbating climate damage from continued burning of fossil fuels. Some forecasting models must use observations of young people, no?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

These communities are often already exposed to lots of air pollution from things like other industries, airports, and nearby highways. Pollution control is expensive and air pollution regulations are not strict enough. But is burning waste cheaper than landfill? Sorry, but no again. So, what is the solution?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Just months after the massive, taxpayer-subsidized Shell petrochemical refinery in Butler County began operations, the state Department of Environmental Protection has cited it for substantial air pollution. The plant uses ethane, a byproduct of Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction, to produce plastic.

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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. And, most relevant here, §7411(d) then requires regulation of existing sources within the same category.

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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. A suite of coordinated policies and regulations at all administrative levels is required to achieve this transformation of the transportation system.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Since 2019, more than seventy local and state jurisdictions have followed Berkeley’s lead in requiring or strongly incentivizing all-electric or fossil-fuel-free new buildings, with more considering similar approaches. can be fueled by natural gas), and must base these options on a defensible “one-for-one” basis.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

On March 24, the US Environmental Protection Agency posted information on how industries regulated under a variety of federal Clean Air Act programs could obtain Presidential Exemptions from those requirements. Please: Use Presidential Exemption: [Name of Regulation]: [Facility(ies) Name] as the subject of the request.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The closure in January 2016 of one of Pittsburgh’s biggest coal-processing plants led to immediate and lasting declines in emissions of fossil fuel–related air pollutants. The impact of the closure persisted through at least December 2018, the last month for which data were analyzed. Thurston, ScD.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 28, 2025

The expansion would mean a steep increase in highly toxic pollution linked to serious health problems. Brampton, a community of workers and immigrants with a large proportion of people whose first language is not English, is already exposed to high levels of air pollution from transportation and industrial emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

The community is locked into a lasting and significant source of plastics production and dirty air pollution that will degrade the Commonwealth’s air quality and our environmental legacy for decades to come. Our organizations have filed a notice of intent to sue Shell for the consistent violation of air pollution limits.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2025

Our mission is to improve policy and regulations for the oversight of fossil fuel extraction and use; to educate, empower and organize coalfield citizens; and to protect public and environmental health. CCJ has over three thousand members and supporters and is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.

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