Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

It then disapproved plans that had been submitted by state governments much earlier and issued its own plan covering sources in 23 upwind states. The Court’s Ruling Justice Gorsuch, a fierce skeptic of government regulation, wrote the opinion for the Court. It shows her willingness to take EPA’s arguments seriously.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

This funding, provided by the Inflation Reduction Act , is available to a wide variety of entities, including port authorities, local and tribal governments, and regional air quality agencies as well as businesses and non-profits that partner or collaborate with these public entities.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

And New Jerseys pollution calamity isnt limited to rivers; ozone pollution is among the worst in the nation. According to the American Lung Association, all counties in New Jersey except for one fell into metropolitan areas that ranked among the twenty-five worst for ozone pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

You can compare this to ozone which has a half-life on the order of minutes, and some PFAS chemicals that have a half-life in air on the order of several years. There are two ways that government agencies can work to reduce toxic air emissions, through regulations or through voluntary pollution reduction measures. What can be done?

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

SCAQMD will issue solicitations for projects to be funded by the WAIRE Mitigation Program, and awards of funds must be presented to the SCAQMD Governing Board for approval at least annually. These state and federal standards require areas to reach certain ambient concentrations of ozone to be considered in “attainment.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2025

So it kind of stifles business, could hurt local governments, maybe they need the tax base, maybe they need the jobs, said Rep. He added, I think local governing bodies already have the right, if they see a business trying to come in, that may be a pollutant or may be not good for the community, they already have a way to get around that.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 The District is targeting formal adoption of Proposed Rule 2305 at its May 1, 2020, Governing Board meeting. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Endnotes. [1]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 4, 2023

Trucks and buses on California’s roads and highways are responsible for the majority of lung-damaging fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions, and a sizable amount of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions as well. Both the state and federal governments have committed billions of dollars to spur this work.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

After the 2014 shutdown Toledo spent $53 million to install an ozone treatment system at the city’s drinking water plant to safeguard customers from algal toxins, said Andrew McClure, the plant’s administrator. Then there is the ongoing cost of putting that equipment to work.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Gasoline and diesel vehicles generate 47 percent of nitrogen oxides emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to ground-level ozone. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, helping to address climate change. The transportation sector makes up 22 percent of Pennsylvania’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

29 [PaEN] -- Observer-Reporter: Hydropower Makes Splash As Washington & Jefferson College Center Resumes Series -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Duquesne Light Reaches Last-Minute Deal With Union To Avoid Strike -- TribLive Guest Essay: Manufacturers Need Pragmatism From EPA On Ozone Pollution Rule - By Former Rep.

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Breezometer

JULY 3, 2021

Studies have also shown that fireworks can create a ‘burst’ of ozone formation, also harmful to human health. The German government announced a €500m investment towards improving ventilation systems in public buildings to help stop COVID-19 spread. This can cause a rapid impact on the surrounding air quality.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But they also could plausibly be adopted within a few years if governments are serious about ramping up their ambition, so do not necessarily meet the aim of proposing something radical enough to move the debate. They also call for cutting short-lived climate forcers even faster than now being pursued. So, where’s the radicalism?

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

Instead, environmentalists were mainly concerned about the ozone layer, nuclear meltdown and chemical industrial pollution, the erosion of biodiversity and population explosion. In 2008, the year before I turned 30, the UK government introduced the world’s first legally binding climate change legislation the Climate Change Act.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Billion In Winter Storm Elliot Nonperformance Penalties; Details Confidential Now But Will Be Made Public Later In September -- PA Federation Of Sportsmen & Conservationists Oppose State Budget Bill Transfer Of $150 Million From Game Commission Fund To Clean Streams Fund -- DEP Hosts Sept.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A key critique of California's Cap & Trade program has been that it hasn’t reduced health-harming criteria pollutants , including carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, and particulates.

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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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Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Motor vehicle exhaust is one big source of ground-level ozone or smog, fine particulate matter, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. Most of us spend much of our time inside, either working, doing chores, sleeping or being sedentary; one government estimate believes the average American spends 90% of their time indoors.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I often think back to being a kid in the nineties when saving the ozone was taught as a shining example of international cooperation fueling innovation. But I was wrong to view this one event as a sign that justice is a foregone conclusion.

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Acoel

JUNE 21, 2022

Pairing renewable projects with landfills is a true opportunity for industry and government to partner for the common good. According to RMI, an organization that advances clean energy projects, last year local governments across the U.S. These indexes take various environmental factors (ex: ozone, PM, Superfund, etc.)

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. Fully fund and staff government agencies that protect public health. There's often large withdrawals of surface water.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

Transportation generates 47 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to the formation of ground-level ozone. Local governments, schools, businesses, and organizations may apply for AFIG funding. It also supports the installation of fueling stations for these vehicles.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We can turn in the direction of healthier air quality and slow down climate change by switching to electric vehicles, whether we're government officials, business owners, school administrators, community leaders, or individual consumers. It’s free for public use and distribution.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. Air conditioning and refrigeration.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators. Reference Links: -- DEP’s Environmental Justice Plan -- DEP Expands Environmental Justice Protections With Updated Policy, Improved Mapping Tool; Enhanced Permit Reviews Start Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Serving on EJAB helps me to facilitate communication between communities and government officials.” The research team will present their findings and host discussions with community members and individuals from academia, industry, government agencies and environmental organizations at the annual Shale Network Workshop.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2022

The plan includes resources and suggestions for the General Assembly, state agencies, local governments, and the public. Vince has exemplified the mantra of ‘government that works’ by taking the initiative to do what needed to be done for the people of Pennsylvania.”

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In an era when charges of greenwashing and green hushing are proliferating across social media while at the same time governments are mandating ESG including environmental disclosures by businesses, an update to the Green Guides is a welcome effort toward providing safety bumpers for companies.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. including urban photochemical smog, acid rain and increased tropospheric ozone, and climate change at the local, regional, and global level respectively. federal government. jointly committed. to reducing their carbon emissions. carbon dioxide.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 21, 2017

NASA satellites have been collecting data for years on nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particulate matter, and sulfur dioxide. AQAST aimed to increase the utility of satellite data to researchers and public agencies while improving communication with stakeholders such as the public and government officials. “We

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

The constitutional right to a clean environment is guaranteed to all, not only to those with the funding to lobby government officials. This legislation would be another step towards upholding that right,” said Rep. Causer, Republican Chair Rep. Not only demographics, but also specific environmental impacts,” said Trevino.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

the overall energy consumption of the building is lowered, and green-roofs “provide a beneficial environmental modification that reduced building energy needs and protects against two current public health stressors: high summertime heat and ground-level ozone. Through green-roofs. , Green-Roofing Benefits to Offset the UHIE.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. Click Here for a copy of Altenburg’s complete testimony with footnotes.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. Deforestation.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. Click Here for a copy of Altenburg’s complete testimony with footnotes.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The federal government argued that denial of the motion to dismiss was based on clear error and that mandamus was warranted to confine the district court to the lawful exercise of its jurisdiction. Federal Government Moved to Dismiss Keystone Pipeline Challenges. filed June 13, 2017).

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