Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides Politics 
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 18, 2025
As crucial as these vehicles are, and as important as the goods and services they supply are, they also bring high levels of air pollution that endanger peoples health and contribute to climate change. However, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles like commercial trucks, vans , and buses, pollute at far greater rates than cars.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 19, 2022
And we’re still trying to recover from a pandemic that has made even more clear the disproportionate impacts of air pollution on overburdened communities, making them even more vulnerable to the negative impacts of COVID 19. And our modeling shows renewables’ power.
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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. by 13 percent and other key pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide by 77 and 90 percent, respectively.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Beyond the climate harms of fossil fuels, they also impose a terrible toll on human health, as numerous recent studies show—including the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change , a BMJ study on global deaths from air pollution caused by fossil fuels, and a study on US deaths attributable to coal-fired electricity generation.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
They obviously include climate change, but it also include health impacts from air pollution and water pollution. degrees goal is threatened by political inaction. degrees C is scientifically possible; the reason the world might blow past it is political. Why not just start with renewables?
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 29, 2023
Passing fees in California requires a two-third’s vote from both houses of the legislature, and when vote margins are slim, the politics get tricky. Now, Assembly Bill 241 (AB 241) would extend these fees and modernize the funding programs to make sure that public dollars are spent in common sense and equitable ways.
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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