PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

Equitrans provided emission estimates that indicated approximately 1.037 billion cubic feet of natural gas was released into the atmosphere, violating Pennsylvania’s Air Pollution Control Act. The impact of methane is over 25 times greater than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Another clue indicating a shortcoming is if you look at the atmospheric CO 2 -concentrations over time to see how much impact the IPCC reports have had on the real policy-makers in the world (Figure below). The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Recent science doesn’t support this optimism, as new studies show that the increased release of Black Carbon, one of the most potent climate change forcers—as well as soot, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone from more traffic in the Arctic—could lead to a 20% increase in the global heating that is causing warmer ocean temperatures.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

The AFIG Program funds projects that replace older gasoline- or diesel-fueled vehicles with cleaner fuel vehicles that helps reduce emissions of carbon monoxide, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxides, and carbon dioxide, a principal greenhouse gas.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The JWST’s main exoplanet task will be to probe the atmospheres of the planets as they pass between the telescope and their parent stars. That’s a pretty clear benefit of being late,” he tells Physics World. Courtesy: NASA/R Hurt/T Pyle). But the telescope’s exoplanet studies will go deeper, too.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Fossil fuel combustion produces carbon dioxide (CO2), the most abundant global warming pollutant, but also produces local pollutants such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). which is formed in the atmosphere from precursor gases such as NOx.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

The plan cuts power plant and industrial ozone pollution that wafts from central parts of the nation into eastern states. According to the American Lung Association, nearly 120 million people in the nation—one of every three—lives with unhealthy levels of particle and ozone pollution. A 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling (Chevron v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This, along with many other chemicals, like diesel particulates and ground-level ozone that form soot and smog, and metals like lead in paint and drinking water, are regulated by the EPA to keep us safe. In addition, the EPA should revise or scrap the social cost of carbon (SCC), according to the Blueprint.

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

The JWST’s main exoplanet task will be to probe the atmospheres of these distant worlds as they pass between the telescope and their parent stars. Today we know of thousands of worlds beyond our solar system, and – all being well – the JWST will be in prime position to study their atmospheres.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. But there’s a bright side to our black carbon problems: it doesn’t live very long.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. 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.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Satellites, for example, are used in meteorology to track weather systems and to monitor atmospheric fronts to predict what the weather will do next. Known as ENSO, they are opposite effects of the same process and are defined as an oscillation (a variation in magnitude) between the temperature of the atmosphere and the ocean.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It is mainly methane, which is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat for the first 20 years after it is released. Nitrous oxide has been called the “ forgotten greenhouse gas ” because while it is a powerful contributor to climate change, it generates far fewer headlines than carbon dioxide.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

“Additionally, methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere and is responsible for 25% of the human-produced warming we experience today. The higher temperatures we are seeing in the U.S.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide for the first twenty years that it remains in the atmosphere. “For the future of Pennsylvania’s climate and the health of those living closest to oil and gas wells, the EPA must adopt the strongest rules possible as quickly as possible.”

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide, on average, over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. can take in the short term to slow the rate of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

This latest report looks at mitigation — or what the world can do to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Capturing carbon is a must. Countries will also have to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to keep global warming in check. EPA – National and Governmental Advisory Committees to the U.S.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. 3692 ), which requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop climate impact management plans for marine mammals that are at significant risk due to climate change.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. What Are the Key Variables Affecting the SCC Amount?

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