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Proposed DEP Regulation Would Require 22% Of Passenger, Light Duty Vehicle Fleet Offered For Sale In PA Be Zero Emission Vehicles Starting In 2025

PA Environment Daily

On October 14, the Department of Environmental Protection presented a proposed regulation that would adopt California’s existing Zero Emission Vehicle Program that requires 22 percent of the new passenger and light duty vehicle fleets offered for sale in the state be zero emission vehicles starting in model year 2025.

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Green on Top: Zoning Against Climate Change with Green-Roof Legislation

Vermont Law

the UHIE occurs in metropolitan areas and “can affect communities by increasing summertime peak energy demand, air conditioning costs, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, heat-related illness, mortality, and water quality.”. Third, current building regulation is opaque, inconsistent, and unpopular with developers.

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EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc., Hilcorp Energy Company For Federal, State Clean Air Act Violations

PA Environment Daily

These settlements are the latest in EPA’s urgent efforts to limit the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change and hold corporate polluters accountable for jeopardizing public health.” Uhlmann for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

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Cars, Smog, and EPA

Legal Planet

NOx plays a role in forming ground level ozone and final particulates (PM2.5), both of which are human health hazards. For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx standards for new cars itself. When fully phased in, they will set a 0.7 fleetwide ceiling of 0.07

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The Problems with Liquefied Natural Gas

Ocean Conservancy

If we are to avert climate catastrophe, the shipping sector must immediately begin to eliminate the 1 billion-plus metric tons of greenhouse gases it emits every year. When the IMO’s regulation to cut SO x emissions went into effect in 2020, LNG became a growing alternative fuel choice for marine transportation.

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Volatile Chemical Products: Important Contributors to Harmful Particulate Matter

HumanNature

We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation. One of the most well-known ways we have impacted our atmosphere is through the emission of greenhouse gases, which have adversely affected our climate. The volatile chemical precursors (e.g.,

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Project 2025’s Assault on EPA, Human Health and the Environment Must Never Be Put into Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

This, along with many other chemicals, like diesel particulates and ground-level ozone that form soot and smog, and metals like lead in paint and drinking water, are regulated by the EPA to keep us safe. Project 2025 calls for all of these regulations to be reexamined. 107 million symptomatic asthma incidents.

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