Air Pollution Politics Recycling 
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 18, 2025
School buses that bring kids to school, city buses that serve commuters, garbage and recycling trucks that keep streets clean, 18-wheelers that haul goods: these are all classified as medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. UCS supporters can also push for electrification by being more conscious and informed consumers.
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. We urgently need the political will to make the right investments to accelerate this transition to a clean and equitable transportation system.
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Legal Planet
APRIL 19, 2023
As a corollary, local decision-makers are far less politically accountable to residents living outside of their jurisdiction, allowing these decision-makers to impose negative externalities on neighboring communities.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 2, 2024
PA Bulletin, page 4537 ) 2024 Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 181 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. The following DEP notices were published in the August 3 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. Philadelphia. ( Wyoming County. (
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 17, 2022
Along with rising temperatures, drought makes vegetation and forests drier and increases the risk of fires that generate air pollution. This action is particularly important in terms of equity because water pollution disproportionately affects under-resourced communities with low political representation.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
AB 2101 expands carbon sequestration projects to include whole orchard recycling (onsite grinding or chipping of whole trees during orchard removal for use in topsoil). While the Governor’s veto message asserted that additional legislative direction was not necessary, communities in the Valley continue to suffer from serious air pollution.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 11, 2023
Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Folta Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with production wastewater for the well pad located in Tuscarora Twp., . -- Project Part II: Olympus/Hyperion is proposing 8.4 Read more here. Bradford County. ( Butler County. (
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