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The 2023 strategy is more ambitious than the earlier one it replaces and covers full life cycle (also known as well-to-wake or WtW) emissions of all greenhouse gases (GHG), not just those from burning fuel onboard and not just carbondioxide (CO 2 ).
Getting more zero- and low-emission vehicles on the road in Pennsylvania helps reduce harmful air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds. It also helps lower the level of carbondioxide, one of the greenhouse gases heating up the climate, in the air.
Getting more zero- and low-emission vehicles on the road in Pennsylvania helps reduce harmful air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds. It also helps lower the level of carbondioxide, helping to address climate change.
By replacing older polluting engines and equipment with new technologies, funded projects remove nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and hydrocarbon pollution from the air. Zero- and low-emission vehicles also lower carbondioxide emissions, helping to lessen climate change. Annually, the project will remove 1.38
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 carbondioxide, a principal greenhouse gas.
Transportation generates 47 percent of nitrogen oxide and 21 percent of carbondioxide emissions in Pennsylvania. “DEP is committed to supporting this choice by increasing public knowledge of electric vehicles, making it easier for consumers to find electric models, and helping to expand charging infrastructure.”
Fossil fuel combustion produces carbondioxide (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.
The commitments under the settlements will significantly reduce pollution from these companies’ operations, including volatile organic compounds that contribute to ground-levelozone, and methane, a potent greenhouse gas.” Specifically, by Dec. million to plug or remediate them.
This, along with many other chemicals, like diesel particulates and ground-levelozone 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.
Like nitrogen dioxide, methane combines with other pollutants to form ground-levelozone—more commonly known as smog—and it is a significantly more potent global warming pollutant than carbondioxide. A 2022 Sierra Club investigation , for example, found nearly 400 methane leaks in Washington, D.C.,
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 carbondioxide (on a per ton basis).
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-levelozone, 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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