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Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossilfuel-fired power plants. One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA decision, but it did not ground EPA.
It’s in their very first mitigation recommendation, for a “graduated, differentiated phaseout” in production and consumption of fossilfuels. Isn’t it obvious that the world needs to get rid of fossilfuels, and haven’t a bunch of people called for it? Targeting fossilfuels not emissions.
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This investment will enable us to begin transitioning our fleet from burning fossilfuels to using renewable resources to reduce our carbon footprint, which will benefit both our company and our community.” Gasoline and diesel vehicles generate 47 percent of nitrogen oxides emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to ground-level ozone.
The same is true for freshwater and marine eco-toxicity; ozone depletion and POCP (photochemical oxidant creation potential). With regard to acidification and eutrophication potentials, nuclear energy is also comparable to or better than solar PV and wind.
Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossilfuel phaseout to meet climate goals. The industry is pushing a narrative that misleadingly calls out emissions , not fossilfuels as the problem. Source: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
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including urban photochemical smog, acid rain and increased tropospheric ozone, and climate change at the local, regional, and global level respectively. would be to charge individuals based on their consumption (usually of fossilfuel) as a proxy for their total carbon emissions. carbon dioxide. environmental effects.
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