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These penalties are in addition to a $670,000 civil penalty DEP accessed against Shell Falcon Pipeline and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLC for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. Read more here. Read more here. Decrease To 31.2%
These vehicles make up just over 1 in 10 of the vehicles on our roads but emit around half of the fine particulate and nitrogenoxide pollution among on-road vehicles. However, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles like commercial trucks, vans , and buses, pollute at far greater rates than cars.
they were approved by the legislature and are now sitting on Newsom’s desk, awaiting his signature to become law. Luckily, these new challenges have proven solutions and – look at that! These dirty vehicles are overrepresented in low-income neighborhoods and disproportionately impact the health of these already overburdened communities.
But while greenhouse gas emissions may be reduced, a delivery fulfilled by a diesel-burning truck may lead to increases in emissions of smog-forming nitrogenoxides and lung-damaging particulate matter.
The Threats of Gas Appliances Every day, domestic gas-powered building appliances emit 65 tons of toxic and highly reactive gases called nitrogenoxides (NOx) per day. The Rule and Other Potential Developments By adopting this rule, BAAQMD is exercising its legal authority under both federal and state law to regulate nitrogenoxides.
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To supercharge the transition to clean school buses, Congress amended and reinvigorated the Clean School Bus Program with a $5 billion dollars over 5 years investment as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law). Why not 100 percent?
I applaud Governor Shapiros continued support for Community Solar and look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get it signed into law. Solar panels do not emit carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogenoxides, or other harmful air pollutants when theyre working.
Municipal zoning laws, meanwhile, allowed companies to build power plants and other industrial facilities in those same neighborhoods. Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogenoxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality. EN: US infrastructure planning has a long history of discrimination.
6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. 6 was enacted, the plants have emitted more than 29 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 28,000 tons of nitrogenoxides (NOx), and 16,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SOx).
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, nitrogenoxides and sulfur dioxide.
Emissions which create smog and impact human health can also be mitigated; sulfur oxides can be reduced by 89% and nitrogenoxides by 78%. EV battery recycling policy in the United States to-date consists of investment in recycling research, development, and demonstration, such as in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Eliminating gasoline combustion also means getting rid of harmful pollutant emissions like nitrogenoxides and reactive organic gases. That’s less than a quarter of the emissions per mile of the average gasoline car on the road in California (29 mpg).
The action against Shell Chemical Appalachia’s plant, located in Potter Township, is for illegal emissions of volatile organic compounds (or VOCs), which contribute to smog and can cause nausea, nerve damage, and other health problems, as well as nitrogenoxides, which can trigger asthma attacks and respiratory illness.
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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 nitrogenoxide (NOx) emissions and local diesel particulate matter emissions. i] Case No.: 2:21-cv-6341. [ii]
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The consent order and agreement included a $4,935,023 penalty to the DEP Clean Air Fund (25% of which was directed to the host community as required by law) and an additional $5 million was allocated to a Beaver County Environmental Mitigation Community Fund. However, in Paragraph 14.b Paragraph 14.b on June 20, 2023 -- $1,046,766.94
The very least this international corporation can do is to follow the law and not make Pennsylvania taxpayers breathe in their illegal pollution,” said Sarah Kula, attorney for the Environmental Integrity Project. Joseph Minott, Executive Director of the Clean Air Council, said: “Shell’s persistent law-breaking must end.
The emissions from these trucks, such as particulate matter & nitrogenoxides, can contribute to poor air quality in these communities. This target has been incorporated into the National Climate Agreement, a binding law that ensures political commitment to implementation.
The Clean Air Council and the Environmental Integrity Project asked DEP to temporarily halt operations of the Shell Polymers Monaca plant in Beaver County until the company can demonstrate it can operate in compliance with pollution control laws.
The tax credits do not consider other fundamental dimensions of “clean,” such as emissions of health-harming pollution like nitrogenoxides or particulate matter. The underlying statute defines “clean” to mean that the facility GHG emissions rate—i.e.,
The consent order and agreement included $10 million in penalties -- a $4,935,023 penalty to the DEP Clean Air Fund (25% of which was directed to the host community as required by law) and $5 million was allocated to a Beaver County Environmental Mitigation Community Fund. However, in Paragraph 14.b Paragraph 14.b
Pollutants of concern emitted by the facility include particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogenoxides, volatile organic compounds, and hazardous air pollutants, among others. "We Click Here for a copy of EPA’s order. Posted: February 12, 2024] PA Environment Digest
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“Pennsylvanians have a constitutional right to clean air and pure water, and my Administration will hold all companies – no matter how big or small – accountable when they violate the laws and regulations protecting our air and water,” said Gov. Josh Shapiro. Shell recognizes that as a company, it must do better, and this $6.2
The WAIRE Program essentially requires warehouse operators to take actions to electrify warehouse activities and the trucks that visit warehouses in order to reduce nitrogenoxides (NOx) and diesel particulate matter (DPM) emissions.
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By reducing nitrogenoxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants from the transportation sector, we make the air quality healthier in our communities, while helping to slow down climate change and its impacts,” Ziadeh added. million settlement with Volkswagen.
One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogenoxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012.
Under the rule, certain “upwind” states were required to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) and nitrogenoxides (NO x ), based on those states’ contributions to downwind states’ air quality problems. Industry strongly criticized CSAPR for its draconian reductions in allowable power plant emissions.
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This growing network of warehouses and the freight vehicles that serve them contribute significantly to a community’s greenhouse gas emissions and exposure to harmful pollutants like nitrogenoxides, carbon monoxide and particulate matter.
In its first year of operations, Shell exceeded four air permits limits for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), carbon monoxide, nitrogenoxide, and hazardous air pollutants. Shell can’t operate safely and that’s why we expect PA DEP to hold Shell to at least operate within the law,” said anaïs peterson of Earthworks.
Dan Farber at Legal Planet recently posted on "Cars, Smog, and EPA" An excerpt: For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx [nitrogenoxides] standards for new cars itself. That’s quite different from the standards for industrial pollution sources, which Congress has always delegated to EPA.
Also on the agenda is a final regulation setting RACT (Reasonably Available Control Technology Standards) for major sources of nitrogenoxides. DEP said it complied with Act 40 of 2017 by including what the law required at the proposed rulemaking stage of this regulation. Read More here.
PA Bulletin, page 2390 ) The station is classified as a major facility for RACT purposes having the potential to emit greater than 100 tons per year of nitrogenoxide (NOx) and 50 tons per year of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions.
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