Air Pollution Ozone Politics 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 9, 2024
If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. The Supreme Court just overturned the doctrine known as “Chevron deference.”
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Diesel pollution is a known carcinogen , and particulate emissions like those from trucks have clear negative health impacts including heart disease and increased emergency room visits for cardiovascular problems. We in Colorado have many days of problematic ozone. We need every tool we can apply to gain healthier air.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
In effect, the Court argued that for decisions of “such economic and political significance”—here, shifting electricity generation from one resource to another—there must be clear congressional authorization. In issuing its decision , the majority relied upon a new-to-the-Supreme-Court framework called the “major questions doctrine.”
Greenbuilding Law
JULY 9, 2023
Co Benefits for Human Health : Methane is a key precursor of tropospheric ozone (ground level), a harmful air pollutant. Increased methane emissions are responsible for more than half of the observed increase in tropospheric ozone levels.
Vermont Law
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
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. carbon dioxide. environmental effects. would suggest increasing the price of carbon.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.
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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