Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 is still driving up Ohioans’ electricity bills—and undermining the state’s prospects for a clean energy future. 6 was enacted, the plants have emitted more than 29 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 28,000 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 16,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SOx). Since H.B. But thanks to H.B.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

We also evaluated the potential to accelerate the use of renewable energy dramatically through state-level renewable electricity standards, which have been major drivers of clean energy in recent decades. Under the no-new-policy scenario, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides decline only by 27 percent and 18 percent, respectively.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). I’ll start off with the good.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The case for phasing out of fossil fuels and making a just and equitable transition to clean energy has never been more clear. Contrast that with some of the wider benefits of the clean energy transition, such as phasing out coal generation by 2030, which are realized by everyone including historically disenfranchised groups.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

UCS Senior Energy Analyst Julie McNamara addressed the industry’s ruse in a recent blog post: “Given the fallacy of the fossil fuel solution, our policymakers should stop hyper-focusing on fossil fuel production and instead take a full-field view of near- and long-term needs and opportunities, both at home and abroad.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

Their contribution to local air pollution is also highly disproportionate, as heavy-duty vehicles are responsible for 45 percent of on-road nitrogen oxides (NOx) and 57 percent of on-road fine particulate matter (PM2.5) by 13 percent and other key pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide by 77 and 90 percent, respectively.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Most notable of these polluting emissions are nitrogen oxides (NOx). In parallel, there should be more concerted efforts to break down the barriers to the clean energy buildout. Clean energy, done right, avoids many of the very harmful impacts of gas-fueled power plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Had the court ruled fully in favor of the EPA— or not taken the case at all —a much more meaningful dent in power plant carbon emissions would be within reach, while also delivering much greater reductions in other dangerous co-pollutants from burning fossil fuels such as particulate matter, mercury, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a major—forthcoming—refresh for one of the biggest policy drivers of the nation’s clean energy transition to date: tax credits subsidizing the deployment of clean electricity resources. The underlying statute defines “clean” to mean that the facility GHG emissions rate—i.e.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 18, 2024

This included a bill that would have started a statewide conversation about the diminished role fossil fuels should play in Maine’s energy system as the state strives to meet its climate and clean energy commitments.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

Aging plants and state clean energy goals are certainly helping that trend. Source: Energy Information Agency It might be surprising to see a state like California pumping out so much gas-generated electricity since it’s generally considered a leader in the clean energy transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2025

Those include: More NO x The higher fuel flow rate (faster use of fuel, given hydrogens lower energy content) and the higher temperatures produced by gas-hydrogen blends produce more nitrogen oxides (NO x ), which can cause and exacerbate asthma and other respiratory diseases.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 3, 2025

It is powered by a 6-megawatt-hour battery system that eliminates emissions, equipped with onboard energy management systems to optimize power use and fitted with azimuth thrusters for enhanced maneuverability.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As described in Latham’s previous reporting on the rulemaking [iii] and adoption [iv] of Rule 2305, the regulation applies to warehouses in the South Coast Air Basin [v] of 100,000 square feet or more and aims to reduce regional nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions and local diesel particulate matter emissions. i] Case No.: 2:21-cv-6341. [ii]

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In order to ensure a safe and stable future, we need more clean energy, not more fossil power. Respected bodies like the International Energy Agency have been clear – there is no room for new fossil fuel infrastructure if we want to hold warming to 1.5 Ontario doesn’t need more gas plants.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2022

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. “This comprehensive approach to reducing vehicle emissions will help improve Pennsylvanians’ health while also helping to slow climate change.”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

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. Gasoline and diesel vehicles generate 47 percent of nitrogen oxides emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to ground-level ozone.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2024

In Pennsylvania, 47 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions come from gasoline and diesel vehicles, and transportation contributes up to 22 percent of Pennsylvania's overall greenhouse gas emissions. This is the second round of 2023 AFIG funding, with each project building on Pennsylvania's clean energy economy.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Hydrogen’s supply-side has been buttressed by incentives from state and federal governments, refineries and utilities looking to extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure, and renewable energy companies seeking to take advantage of the huge amounts of clean energy needed to produce green hydrogen.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

billion in public health benefits by 2050 including 140 fewer premature deaths, 131 fewer hospital visits from breathing polluted air, and 71,760 fewer cases of acute bronchitis, exacerbated asthma, and other respiratory symptoms. -- 3,524 new jobs by 2035 , supporting growth in clean energy jobs across the country. billion by 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Similarly, the province’s subsidy to Emerald—the owner of the garbage incinerator in Peel—in the name of clean energy and innovation is terrible double speak. The Emerald incinerator in Brampton is the second highest local industrial emitter of the toxic pollutant nitrogen oxide, according to the National Pollutant Release Inventory.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

The WAIRE Program essentially requires warehouse operators to take actions to electrify warehouse activities and the trucks that visit warehouses in order to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and diesel particulate matter (DPM) emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2572 ) This facility is classified as a major facility for RACT purposes having the potential to emit greater than 100 tons per year of nitrogen oxide (NOx) and 50 tons per year of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The 2016 AQMP analyzes existing and potential regulatory control options and seeks to achieve multiple goals in partnership with other entities promoting reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs) and toxic risk, as well as efficiencies in energy use, transportation, and goods movement.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

Million May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation DEP Sets June 28 Hearing On Response To PFOA/PFOS Contamination Around University Park Airport, Centre County EPA Announces Brownfields Cleanup, Assessment Funding; 8 Grants In PA Totaling $7.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New UCS study shows how we can accelerate US clean energy ambition An interdisciplinary team of UCS experts set out to explore how the US can meet its goals to cut heat-trapping emissions 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions no later than 2050.

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

Shifting toward low-carbon clean energy requires major investments in electricity and hydrogen. Particulate matter harms lungs and hearts, while nitrogen oxide compounds contribute to ozone pollution and other health impacts. Fuels : About 86 percent of transportation fuel is petroleum.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency methodologies to assign a dollar value to each ton of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide reduced. PJM recommended states enact policies to facilitate quicker deployment of new generation and electricity transmission infrastructure in the transition to a clean energy grid. billion - $1.02

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2022

House Committee Passage Of Environmental Justice For All Act, Urges Further Action -- Reading Eagle: EPA Cleaning Up Hazardous Exide Property In Muhlenberg Twp. 4-5 [PaEN] -- EQB Meets Aug. 9 On Final Reg. 4 Harnessing Hydrogen: Exploring Local & Regional Opportunities In Appalachia [PaEN] -- U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Given that heightened awareness, a Commerce Department advisory committee of electric and gas utility executives acknowledged at a meeting in the fall of 1970 that their industry needed “to show what they are doing about pollution [and] suggested that the gas industry take a look at the NOx [nitrogen oxides] problem.”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Read more here ] The plant would mix the captured CO2 with ammonia to produce urea, which is used in diesel exhaust systems to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. Street Announces Bill Package To Transition From AEPS To New Clean Energy Standard With Carbon Capture [Posted: August 3, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

The Union of Concerned Scientists maintains that when clean energy technologies go head-to-head with the various facility-specific options to reduce coal- and gas-fired power plants’ carbon emissions, such as hydrogen co-firing or carbon capture and sequestration, clean energy technologies will overwhelmingly win the day.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 17, 2025

He also oversaw a new rule that let industrial facilities use less-effective methods to monitor their emissions of nitrogen oxides, and withdrew grants that funded research on how chemical exposures affect young children. Trump officials also withdrew an EPA request for oil companies to share information on their methane emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2022

Billion Profit -- Bloomberg: Germany Approves $180 Billion Funding To Accelerate Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency Shift American Rescue Plan Funding -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. 9 On Final Reg.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

But for all other greenhouse gases (which include methane, nitrogen oxides and f-gases) it gave a surprising range, saying that if efforts accelerate rapidly in the next few years, they could continue to be emitted at low and decreasing levels until 2100, long after previous estimates. The IPCC said 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2025

Cleaner cars, cleaner air Our Cleaner Cars, Cleaner Air Report showed that while pre-2004 cars make up fewer than 20% of the cars on the road, they are responsible for the majority of tailpipe pollution because they produce higher amounts of lung-damaging particulate pollution and contribute significantly more smog-forming nitrogen oxide emissions.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

Another $35 billion goes towards climate solutions research and developing clean energy technologies and jobs. competitiveness in science and technology with China and to develop clean energy technologies to reduce emissions. A new climate-focused national lab will be affiliated with an HBCU. 961 & H.R.

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