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. How much global technological innovation will be spurred by these investments?

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

China has become the dominant manufacturer of clean energy technologies. Chinese government support for manufacturing of clean technologies may be partly due to concern about climate change and urban air pollution. How is China’s commitment to clean energy impacting other countries? auto sector.”

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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

MARCH 3, 2022

They are also disproportionate sources of air pollution. At least with present technology, electric batteries do not seem to be a viable solution for long-haul trucking. Another option would not require new technology. A quarter of carbon emissions from transportation come from heavy-duty trucks.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A focus on revolutionary solutions like carbon capture and geoengineering is slowing the uptake of existing answers to the problems of climate change, air pollution and energy security, says environmental engineer Mark Jacobson

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Scientific American

JUNE 16, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 20, 2023

Electric vehicles (EVs) can eliminate tailpipe emissions altogether and are also more efficient than gasoline vehicles making EVs an important technology for reducing both global-warming and harmful air pollution from personal transportation. However, avoiding driving is even better.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2380 ) -- Columbia Gas Trans LLC - Eagle Compressor Station: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan approval covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in West Vincent Twp., Received Dec. 27, Issued Jan. Chester County. Received Feb. 21, Issued March 7. ( Washington County. Received Feb.

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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. In other words, technological solutions are necessary but not sufficient. On the technology side, decarbonization is the key.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

First, there’s air pollution. Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality. Exposure to NOx and other gas infrastructure air pollutants has been associated with respiratory illnesses and an increase in childhood asthma rates.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Research shows there are enough explored or prospective reserves to electrify the global transportation sector using current technology if a high amount of battery recycling occurs. Reserve estimations are therefore much less than total resources and fluctuate based on material value, mineral exploration, and technological development.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On November 13, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it approved funding for two Oil City recreation projects from penalties collected for Air Pollution Act violations at the Webco Oil City Plant in Venango County.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way). DR: Adding EVs to the grid is unlike other typical demands, such as air conditioning or refrigerators, which have to run at certain times during the day or continuously.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

It wouldn’t require placing bets on what zero carbon technologies will win out. It would provide an incentive for cutting carbon emissions, with the byproduct of cutting air pollution everywhere. A carbon tax could cover the economy without the need for scores of regulations tailored to each industry.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Even when accounting for pollution from electricity generation, electric trucks can significantly reduce air pollution and get us on a better track to addressing climate change. Some of the same researchers are currently working on a comparable study for the United States and their preliminary results are similar.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

However, the availability of CCS is highly dependent on local topology, such as salt caverns available to sequester carbon and the availability of a pipeline infrastructure to transport carbon emissions from individual generating plants to CCS sites potentially hundreds of miles away. Friel-Otten, Rep. Abney Introduce Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 1, 2022

Truck traffic has been on the rise , even during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that increase means even more air pollution in communities already disproportionately impacted by the public health emergency. Communities have been clear: a zero-emissions freight system is required to reach environmental justice. Image: Freightliner ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Electric cars , trucks , and buses are a key technology to reduce climate-warming emissions as well as health-harming local air pollution, and those vehicles need readily available charging infrastructure. The big picture.

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Breezometer

MARCH 14, 2022

BreezoMeter was honored to join Texas A&M University for a scientific research project that linked hurricanes to serious spikes in air pollution. The Results Speak Volumes: Higher Concentrations of Air Pollution Following Hurricane! The Results Speak Volumes: Higher Concentrations of Air Pollution Following Hurricane!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2023

I’ve blogged in detail about this effort, focusing mainly on the severe analytical shortcomings in the Postal Service’s 2021 study of air quality, climate, economic, and technological aspects of the new fleet of vehicles, known as the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Electric vehicles (EVs) can eliminate tailpipe emissions altogether and are also more efficient than gasoline vehicles, making EVs an important technology for reducing both global-warming and harmful air pollution from personal transportation.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you become an IP lawyer, there’s work to be done on clean energy technologies. Traditional land use law is tied in with urban sprawl, a big problem in terms of carbon emissions and urban air pollution. If you do corporate work, you can focus on ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance). Land Use Law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 19, 2023

. “Ambient NO2 Air Pollution and Public Schools in the United States: Relationships with Urbanicity, Race–Ethnicity, and Income.” ” Environmental Science & Technology Letters 10(10), 844-850. DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00507

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

and Canada, more than 180 models of these vehicles are available, according to CALSTART’s Zero-Emission Technology Inventory. Each of these also creates additional market certainty, which accelerates technology development and infrastructure deployment. In the U.S. If you throw transit buses into the mix, the number jumps to over 200.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. Today, sales in California not only far exceed these targets, but ahead of schedule, because regulators in part underestimated how fast technology would improve. ). By making historic investments in the U.S.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

Students who are interested in conservation biology may often be interested in other issues like air pollution; they may also seek jobs that address sustainability as a broad topic. Human societies and technologies, ecological systems, and atmospheric and oceanic systems are tightly interconnected.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants : This $5 billion program administered by the EPA aims to reduce climate warming emissions and other air pollution. UCS is partnering with the Environmental Protection Network to help connect our network of experts to community groups looking to apply for funding. It is made up of $4.75

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c) A 2015 law, AB197, requires that the scoping plan discuss the following for each emission reduction measure: (a) The range of projected greenhouse gas emissions reductions that result from the measure. (b)

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Boyd is recognized as one of the country’s leading energy and environmental law scholars and has written pathbreaking articles on public utilities, risk regulation, forestry, and the role of science and technology in environmental law. His applied research is focused on solutions to environmental problems in China. Through the project, Prof.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Our color-coded pollution heatmaps are one of BreezoMeter’s best-loved features and have always been a key part of what we do: Highly visual representations of air quality in a way that anyone can understand and act upon. The Air Quality Monitoring Technology Behind our Pollution Heatmaps: Models within Models.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Mitigating methane emissions from oil and gas operations by supporting investments in leakage reduction technologies and charging a fee for emission exceedances. Incentivizing industrial decarbonization by providing grants for investments to reduce emissions and federal procurement support to backstop demand for clean products.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Workers in facilities that produce and use EtO as well as people living near facilities that release it into the atmosphere are at risk of unsafe exposures even when the facilities are using the best available technologies to handle and contain it. Have I been exposed to ethylene oxide?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Environmental justice analysis: DTE’s energy plan includes an assessment of environmental justice that utilized US Environmental Protection Agency screening and mapping tools to evaluate its facilities’ air pollution and health impacts.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Read the full story from the University of Technology Sydney. Low levels of traffic-related air pollution harms the liver and may raise the risk of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease, a new study in mice suggests.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

First of all, electric trains are quieter and less polluting. There are immediate gains for air pollution, especially as they pass through urban areas. Technological improvements have gone hand in hand with more clean energy in the generation mix, and with every passing year, theres more renewable energy coming online.

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