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DEP: $3.47 Million In Alternative Fuel Vehicle Grants Announced To Lower Costs, Improve Air Quality; Deadline For New Applications Oct. 10

PA Environment Daily

On July 15, the Department of Environmental Protection awarded more than $3.47 AFIG aims to lower greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality for many Pennsylvania communities with the use of electric school buses, Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) trucks, electric charging stations, and other clean transportation alternatives.”

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Nearly Half of US Breathes Unhealthy Levels of Pollution—Cars and Trucks Largely to Blame

Union of Concerned Scientists

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. Secondary PM 2.5 The report compares PM 2.5

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Part I - Environmental Impacts: State Dept. Of Health, Penn State Medical Webinars On Caring For Persons Living & Working In Communities With Oil & Natural Gas Extraction

PA Environment Daily

If you are interested, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, or DEP, publishes multiple interactive resources. Editor's Note: the Department of Health Environmental Health Indicators Map and DEPs Oil and Gas Mapping application are good tools to local oil and gas threats near you.]

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Rolling Back Vehicle Standards is Bad for Drivers, the Auto Industry, and Anything that Breathes

Union of Concerned Scientists

Our health, some of the largest climate actions in US history, and more Transportation is the largest source of US climate emissions, so its not surprising that undermining recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actions targeting climate emissions from cars and trucks will be a major setback in meeting climate targets.

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New Analysis Shows Public Health Impacts of Proposed Gas Plants in Wisconsin 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Costly and Inequitable In addition to emitting greenhouse gases, gas power plants also pollute the air with nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds.

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Part II - Health Impacts: State Dept. Of Health, Penn State Medical Webinars On Caring For Persons Living & Working In Communities With Oil & Natural Gas Extraction

PA Environment Daily

Flaring, demonstrated in the photo on the right, is the uncontrolled burning of excess or unwanted petroleum pools such as, excuse me, flaring can be a significant source of air pollution such as nitrogen oxides and greenhouse gas emissions. It is also an additional source of noise and light pollution.

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EPA Moves to Ignore Power Plant Carbon Emissions, Deny Climate Science 

Union of Concerned Scientists

On June 11, less than five months into the Trump administration, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin used a rulemaking about regulating power plant carbon pollution to officially establish climate denial as EPA policy. But that’s just the start.