Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But it’s not totally clear what he meant, because “climate change” was used at the time to refer to a range of issues including acid rain, damage to the ozone layer, local weather control efforts, and desertification. In one sentence of a 1975 article, John Barton referred to “climate change” as a potentially severe long-term problem.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. It was not a catchy slogan to write on a cardboard sign, but the message is important to all of our lives.

Toxic Substances Control Act

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. And political power with it. Just lack of political capital. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue. The Lake Erie Bill of Rights.

2014

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

They include, but are not limited to, altering rainfall and monsoon patterns, damaging the ozone layer, increasing global conflicts, and – most unacceptable of all – giving political cover for fossil fuel industries to continue polluting rather than cut greenhouse gas emissions. The potential risks are legion.

Fossil Fuels

Environment, Law, and History

MAY 12, 2022

Among other things, it demonstrates that environmental regulation is often driven politically by pressure from businesses that stand to profit from the regulation, a phenomenon we have also seen, for instance, in the history of the Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting substances.

Ozone

Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 8, 2023

That substantive list is substantially the same as the original version of TRACI released by EPA in August 2002. Humans aren’t the sole ‘cause’ of climate change, and environmentalists have done a disservice in making that claim too assertively.”

Climate Change

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As you may recall, the Commission’s informal (but serious) job description was to speak of elephants in the room and unclothed emperors: to say things that are true and important about climate risks and responses that other, more political constrained bodies cannot. Invoking the successful Montreal Protocol.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

23 In Western Region, Including Part Of PA; Aug. 23 In Western Region, Including Part Of PA; Aug.

Natural Gas

Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

A little while back Environmental Politics carried a review by Katarina Eckerberg of The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty by Maria Ivanova (MIT Press, 2021).

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

7 General Election -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: ERIC Interstate Voter Verification Service Is Partisan, Expensive And Ineffective, PA Should Leave It - By Sen.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2023

16 In Liberty-Clairton Area, Allegheny County -- Scranton Times Editorial: Ozone Layer Healing Makes Case For Regulation -- TribLive: Natural Gas vs. Electric?

Natural Gas

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.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

In effect, the Court argued that for decisions of “such economic and political significance”—here, shifting electricity generation from one resource to another—there must be clear congressional authorization. In issuing its decision , the majority relied upon a new-to-the-Supreme-Court framework called the “major questions doctrine.”

Clean Air Act

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 21, 2022

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.

Nitrogen Oxides

Law Columbia

JULY 24, 2025

The submissions reflected competing legal paradigms: one that views international law as a living tool for advancing climate justice and accountability, and another that emphasizes legal caution, treaty limits, and political sensitivities.

Climate Change

Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Co Benefits for Human Health : Methane is a key precursor of tropospheric ozone (ground level), a harmful air pollutant. Increased methane emissions are responsible for more than half of the observed increase in tropospheric ozone levels.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Baka's approach to the five-year project, which falls under the nascent field of political-industrial ecology, will examine the environmental impact of the whole system and how environmental costs are distributed across society.

Ground-Level Ozone

Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

including urban photochemical smog, acid rain and increased tropospheric ozone, and climate change at the local, regional, and global level respectively. Notwithstanding the assured political battles, one way to increase the price of carbon is through an economy wide carbon tax. carbon dioxide. Air pollution generally has many proven.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

Clean Water Action Maurice Sampson, Eastern PA Director for Clean Water Action , said, “I interpret the intent of this legislation to even the playing field for low income and politically challenged residents by valuing health over wealth in denying facility permits.”

Natural Gas

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.

Government

Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

This radiation hits the atmosphere and is absorbed by the ozone layer which reduces the most harmful. The turmoil that followed was political but also showed the lack of resources in societies led to their collapse. It was five times larger than Krakatoa and no other volcano has come close to matching its power. Deforestation.

Atmosphere

Law and Environment

AUGUST 1, 2023

With respect to the ozone NAAQS, which EPA has proposed remain at 70 parts per billion, WHEJAC recommends that EPA lower the NAAQS to “the low end of the range recommended in the forthcoming review by EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee….” This administration has paid a lot of attention to EJ and the NAAQS for PM 2.5

Ozone

Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

Regulations

Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

NOx plays a role in forming ground level ozone and final particulates (PM2.5), both of which are human health hazards. The reason may have been the high political stakes in the car industry or the relatively easier task of setting standards for new products in a single industry using a single energy process. gpm NOx standard.

Ground-Level Ozone

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Exxon said dismissal would “set a precedent with nationwide consequences” by “granting state officials license to harass perceived political opponents unimpeded by review in federal courts.” Exxon Mobil Corp. Schneiderman , No. 1:17 -cv-02301-VEC (S.D.N.Y. June 16, 2017).

2017

Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

Methane emissions, which can result from the production and consumption of LNG, are linked to significant impacts on air quality by influencing concentrations of ground-level ozone. Ozone exposure causes and exacerbates respiratory issues, including asthma, and has been linked to cardiovascular disease and premature death.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2024

Of The Interior Awards $28.67

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. It is also a precursor to other pollutants, including ozone (a key component of smog).

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

NO x also contributes to the formation of ozone (or “smog”), another toxic pollutant. A recent study found that more than 99 percent of the global population is exposed to unsafe levels of PM 2.5 pollution, which are particles with diameters of 2.5 micrometers or less. What can be done?

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2023

Coal, Gas Power Plants Reflect ‘Urgency’ Of Climate Crisis PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- PennLive: Election Officials In Central PA Expect Smooth Sailing With Primary Results Tuesday -- PA Capital-Star: PA House Republican Budget Maven Calls For Reforms In 2023-24 Budget Process -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Sen.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Shapiro, The Fracking Clock Is Ticking - By Megan McDonough, Food & Water Watch -- DEP: Find Out More About Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy; 9 Upcoming Public Hearings -- PUC Investigating Delaware County Natural Gas Pipeline Leak, House Explosion And Evacuation Of 100+ People [PaEN] -- PUC Orders Philadelphia Natural Gas Works To Stop (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I don’t care what your politics are but I do care who’s side you are on. “It’s too late to change what happened to me and my family, but it’s not too late to prevent this disaster from visiting itself upon anyone else. Enact setbacks now. Let your legacy in this committee be one of saving families across Pennsylvania.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2022

[PaEN] -- Bay Journal: With Waters Rising, Baltimore Eyes $138 Million Plan To Limit Coastal Flood Damage -- Reuters: EPA To Use Limits On Ozone, Coal Ash To Encourage Retirement Of Remaining Coal-Fired Power Plants After U.S.

Natural Gas

ESA

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Antarctic ozone hole shrinks slightly – The Hill. Learn more about voting policies and rights in your state and register to vote at Rock the Vote , a nonprofit dedicated to engaging young people in politics. EPA – Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and CASAC Ozone Review Panel (Nov.

2022

ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Learn more about voting policies and rights in your state and register to vote at Rock the Vote , a nonprofit dedicated to engaging young people in politics. EPA – Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and CASAC Ozone Review Panel (Nov. Be sure you are registered to vote in time to participate!

2022

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

I’ve rethought that conclusion, however for a combination of policy and political economy reasons. Because methane contributes to ozone pollution, emissions cause immediate health effects as well as warming effects. More purely on the political economy side, cutting methane emissions provides a quick, cheap win for climate action.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

At face value, investigative initiatives like advisory bodies seem like positive steps, but at several points in time, it really was merely political theater. What Do Communities Experience Now, what's a community's experience? There's often large withdrawals of surface water.

Natural Gas