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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Environmental News Bits

JULY 11, 2023

Oil and gas production is one of the largest emitters of methane, a potent greenhouse gas and a significant contributor of air pollution emissions.

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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. This feasible and commonsense regulation would result in 46.45

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The scoping process has been key to California’s success in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The State of New York most recently adopted the scoping process as part of an aggressive new scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)

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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

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) A lower threshold would bring more reductions in air pollution sooner for the communities who need it most.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

To increase the global warming benefits of electrification and significantly reduce air pollution, electricity must be generated from renewable sources. Wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy already make up more than 20 percent of our electricity today, and in the study this portion grows to more than 90 percent in 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But while greenhouse gas emissions may be reduced, a delivery fulfilled by a diesel-burning truck may lead to increases in emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and lung-damaging particulate matter. While the latter part of this conclusion is obvious, the former part isn’t as much.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

To explore a small piece of what is at stake, let’s take a quick look at some of the rules currently under review at the EPA: Air emission reporting requirements If finalized and implemented, this rule will improve the way air pollution emissions are estimated and collected by the EPA.

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Inside Climate News

MAY 11, 2022

Air pollution cuts in North America and Europe helped to increase tropical Atlantic hurricane activity, and may do the same in the western Pacific as Asia cuts emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

Electric vehicles (EVs) can eliminate tailpipe emissions altogether and so are an attractive option for reducing both global-warming and smog-forming air pollution. Switching from conventional vehicles to electric vehicles reduces carbon emissions and smog-forming air pollution. global warming) emissions.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. The accompanying smoke plumes contribute to air pollution, affecting wildlife and human health. Image: PARALAXIS/Shutterstock.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

As you can see there are tax credits and subsidies for electric vehicles, renewable energy, nuclear energy, transmission, hydrogen, air pollution reduction, energy infrastructure, climate resilience, rural development, residential buildings, etc.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s immediately clear how fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEVs) can help reduce emissions; eliminating gasoline and tailpipes in favor of increasingly clean electricity helps limit both climate change and air pollution. Plug-in hybrids are a bit more complicated.

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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. EPA , the Obama Administration issued a series of regulations dealing with greenhouse gases. EPA said that it applied to power plants that emitted a lot of carbon dioxide but not much of other air pollutants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

billion tons of greenhouse gases each year, resulting in the transportation sector being the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors. Vehicles emit 1.5

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 21, 2022

emissions, and just under 15 percent of climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the state’s on-road vehicles. CARB must account for the varying levels of pollution of the different trucks and a lower fleet threshold for tractor trucks is the most effective way to do this.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 4, 2023

Trucks and buses on California’s roads and highways are responsible for the majority of lung-damaging fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions, and a sizable amount of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions as well.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Not only does burning coal contribute massively to rising greenhouse gas emissions, it also endangers people’s health. Air pollutants from coal plants are linked to chronic heart and respiratory disease, and a host of acute ailments. Years later, it has still made no progress – and Canadian ports continue to ship coal.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In 2022, the amount of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions nationwide was over one billion tons , making Japan the 5 th largest GHG emitter in the world. The citizens in the Kobe case argue that the aggravation of climate change and air pollution by the new power plants violate their rights.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

Although these programs differ in their details, they all attempt to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions cost-effectively by creating a market for permissions to emit—called “allowances”—subject to an overall cap on the amount of aggregate emissions allowed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By using recycled instead of newly mined materials, reduction of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions is approximately 64%. Since the materials recovered through recycling were already in the economy, the only impacts associated with their production are from transporting the battery to recycling, pre-processing, and recycling.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 28, 2024

In a new study, researchers broke down how human-induced greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions influence rainfall in the United States. Greenhouse gas emissions increase rainfall, while aerosols have a long-term drying effect as well as short-term impacts that vary with the seasons.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 24, 2023

And lastly, the EPA establishes that water and wastewater are eligible categories for billions in federal funding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. “We By the Numbers $27 Billion : Size of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a pot of money included in the Inflation Reduction Act.

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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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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. After 2036, all new MHDVs sold in California will be electric. There are more than 1.8

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

It’s clear , and it has been clear for decades, that to stave off the worst impacts of climate change we must drastically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Much of California also continues to be out of compliance with federal air quality standards, and millions of Californians breathe unhealthy air every day.

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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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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A second set of climate model simulations can be run with all of the factors we think of as important – the natural drivers of course, but also the anthropogenic changes (greenhouse gas changes, air pollution, ozone depletion, irrigation, land use change etc.).

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2023

The sector—including personal transportation like passenger cars, as well as air, marine, and surface goods and people movement—is the largest source of greenhouse gasses in the U.S.: But, as our panelist Beth Osborne has argued , greenhouse-gas reductions will also depend on reducing the amount of driving we do in general.

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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. His applied research is focused on solutions to environmental problems in China. His new working paper considers how “constructive competition” between the U.S.

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Breezometer

MAY 26, 2022

Smoke haze impacts multiple countries across Southeast Asia every year, affecting agriculture, economy, and health to such a degree it’s become known as the ‘Asian haze’ phenomenon and created major public outcry for better air quality management solutions. What Causes The ‘Southeast Asian Haze’? What Exactly Causes the Haze Smoke?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently developing a regulation to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from trucks, known as the Phase 3 GHG standards, which would in theory result in increased adoption of electric trucks.

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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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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

The state’s Department of Ecology has expressed confidence that “air quality is going to improve , even without this program [as] new cars [become] cleaner,” and as the state “ continue[s] to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles — the largest source of carbon pollution in Washington.”

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