PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Getting more zero- and low-emission vehicles on the road in Pennsylvania helps reduce harmful air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds. Gasoline and diesel vehicles generate 47 percent of nitrogen oxides emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to ground-level ozone.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

There are many human-made sources of emissions, and on-road motor vehicles, such as cars, are a huge driving factor in air pollution. Motor vehicle exhaust is one big source of ground-level ozone or smog, fine particulate matter, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. But there are great benefits to getting out into the open air.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators. Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A key critique of California's Cap & Trade program has been that it hasn’t reduced health-harming criteria pollutants , including carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, and particulates. of Ecology the power to enforce air quality standards against polluters.

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Breezometer

JULY 3, 2021

This can cause a rapid impact on the surrounding air quality. Studies have also shown that fireworks can create a ‘burst’ of ozone formation, also harmful to human health. An examination by Dyson found firework pollution impacts indoor air quality too. The graph below highlights the spike in PM2.5

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. Fully fund and staff government agencies that protect public health.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 21, 2017

The data, available for free online, can help track air quality indicators, heavy metals in air, dust, and other atmospheric components which can affect human health. NASA satellites have been collecting data for years on nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particulate matter, and sulfur dioxide. air pollutants. lborkowski.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. Transportation generates 47 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to the formation of ground-level ozone.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2022

educational video and efforts to reduce air pollution. The plan includes resources and suggestions for the General Assembly, state agencies, local governments, and the public. Vince has exemplified the mantra of ‘government that works’ by taking the initiative to do what needed to be done for the people of Pennsylvania.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Air pollution generally has many proven. including urban photochemical smog, acid rain and increased tropospheric ozone, and climate change at the local, regional, and global level respectively. Air pollution also.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

On June 5, the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held a hearing on House Bill 652 (Bullock-D-Philadelphia) requiring an evaluation of the cumulative impacts of certain electric generation, waste management, sewage treatment facilities and major sources of air pollution proposed in communities already burdened by pollution.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

the UHIE occurs in metropolitan areas and “can affect communities by increasing summertime peak energy demand, air conditioning costs, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, heat-related illness, mortality, and water quality.”. According to the US Environmental Protection . gency (EPA). , Through green-roofs. ,

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. Federal Government Moved to Dismiss Keystone Pipeline Challenges. filed June 13, 2017).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

Additionally, NOx react with other chemicals in the air to create other harmful pollutants, like fine particulate matter and ozone. 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.

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Breezometer

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In the presence of heat and sunlight, chemical emissions from cars and factories react to form ozone (learn more here )., a harmful pollutant. As average temperatures rise, ozone levels accelerate. Repeated and excessive traffic pollution and poor air quality were determined to be linked to Ella's worsening asthma.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2023

The federal government,” West Virginia Sen. Like nitrogen dioxide, methane combines with other pollutants to form ground-level ozone—more commonly known as smog—and it is a significantly more potent global warming pollutant than carbon dioxide. At least one fossil fuel-friendly Democrat stoked the fire, too.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Since global and local pollutants are often byproducts of the same activities, mitigation policies for global warming emissions have the potential to simultaneously mitigate local air pollution 2. One good example of the nexus between global warming and local pollution is ground-level ozone. have a diameter of 2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

NO x also contributes to the formation of ozone (or “smog”), another toxic pollutant. pollution, which are particles with diameters of 2.5 In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7 A recent study found that more than 99 percent of the global population is exposed to unsafe levels of PM 2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

These trucks, which move shipping containers and goods from ports and railyards, are among the dirtiest on the road and are a primary source of air pollution in disproportionately impacted communities. pollution from vehicles. A full transition to electric drayage truck operations in 2035. There are more than 1.8

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

At the high temperatures in internal combustion engines, some of the nitrogen in the air actually burns, resulting in the formation NO or NO 2 , which are collectively called NOx. NOx plays a role in forming ground level ozone and final particulates (PM2.5), both of which are human health hazards. gpm NOx standard.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

EPA has already finalized a rule that aims to address interstate ozone pollution , dubbed the Good Neighbor Plan. For coal-fired power, the economic case has been bleak for a long time now, which has brought US coal-fired generation down to less than half of its 2010 level.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released. These air pollutants include such things as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene. “I Unconventional gas development cannot happen without significant air pollution, even under the best of circumstances.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- Awards/Recognition -- Saint Vincent College: Angela Belli Receives 2025 PA Association of Environmental Educators Keystone Award -- Post-Gazette: Local Elementary Students Draw, Clean Up In Keep PA Beautiful Litter Hawk Youth Award Program (..)

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Breezometer

JUNE 12, 2022

Clean Air Day brings together different communities, businesses, educational institutes, and health sector facilities to participate in the largest air pollution campaign in the UK, which suffers from an estimated 36,000 air pollution-linked deaths every year. Clean Air Day 2022: What’s the Big Deal?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

And today, we're gonna hear from the ethics of work of EHP on how our state government has failed to defend, to protect our children and the citizens of Pennsylvania from this real problem. There are public health protections baked into government policies and practices.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

I named the Priority Pollutants a moment ago, which are 129 chemicals of interest under the Clean Water Act, RCRA, one of two federal laws governing hazardous wastes has several hundred “Appendix IX” groundwater monitoring compounds. For example, VOCs tend to be more soluble in water and one can order a “VOC lab analysis.”

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Coral Reef Task Force and requires the federal government to create a new national coral reef resilience strategy and new coral reef action plans. EPA says state agencies’ regulation of air pollution may violate civil rights of Black residents – Nola.com. Organizations and governments must confirm nominations by Nov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

Justice40ward Toxic Tours are happening all over the country in an effort to educate folks, including federal government employees, about the Biden Administration Justice40 goal to prioritize 40 percent of federal investments in clean energy, energy efficiency, clean transit, clean water infrastructure, remediation of legacy pollution, etc.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

None of that means climate change isn’t, and won’t continue to be, a factor in global health, particularly if action to prevent it also reduces air pollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants. For example, the Green New Deal proposed by Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2022

Other States/National/International -- Utility Dive: EPA Regional Ozone Proposal Threatens Electric Reliability: RTOs, State Utility Regulators PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh-Area Man Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This, along with many other chemicals, like diesel particulates and ground-level ozone that form soot and smog, and metals like lead in paint and drinking water, are regulated by the EPA to keep us safe. PFAS is shorthand for a class of “forever chemicals” that persist in the environment indefinitely.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2024

EPA also granted another waiver for something called the Omnibus Low NOx rule, submitted more than two years ago, which would require trucks to cut NOx pollution by 90 percent below current levels. In granting the waiver, EPA made clear that the California program will cut the air pollutants that cause smog dramatically.

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