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Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
by Daniel Cohan, Rice University Tens of millions of Americans, including many Texans like me, live in counties that will soon be violating air pollution particle standards for the first time. It’s not that our air is getting dirtier – it’s because the U.S.
Greenbuilding Law
JULY 4, 2021
With that wide public sentiment for fireworks, there is actually almost no environmental regulation for the setting off of millions of little explosions of the more than 99% of fireworks imported from China. But, San Diego does regulate fireworks for locations near the coast, requiring expensive permits (.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 26, 2022
California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.
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.
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
. -- Indoor exposure to emissions from cooking on gas stoves can worsen asthma symptoms, cause wheezing, and result in reduced lung function in children , particularly in the absence of ventilation and for children living with asthma or allergies. -- Wood-burning stoves used for heating create sharp increases in indoor levels of particle pollution.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
On February 7, the US Environmental Protection Agency finalized a significantly stronger air quality standard that will better protect America’s families, workers, and communities from the dangerous and costly health effects of fine particle pollution, also known as soot. related health effects to sources of air pollution.
Vermont Law
APRIL 8, 2022
Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 8, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes air quality standards under the Clean Air Act. (1) 1) The EPA permits states to draft and execute regulations to satisfy national standards in most circumstances. (2)
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