Air Pollution
E.P.A. Aims to Reduce Truck Pollution, and Avert Tougher State Controls – The New York Times
Instead, the administration appears to be complying with the wishes of the trucking industry, which has called for a new national nitrogen dioxide regulation to override states that could otherwise implement their own, tighter rules. On that front, the E.P.A. rule is likely to open a new battle in Mr. Trump’s long-running war with California over environmental regulations and states’ rights. California is already moving ahead with stringent state-level standards on nitrogen dioxide pollution from trucks that could be replicated by other states.
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Welcome to 2020! This morning in clean air technology: 😀
1) An all-electric, battery powered CDTA bus was running the #233 Schodack-Albany route this morning. 🚌🔋
2) ANSWERS plant smoke stack is no more. 🏭
New York state imposes new smog limits on power plants – New York Daily News
Power plants will have to emit lower levels of smog on hot days, under new guidelines from the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
The regulations are aimed at the state’s oldest power plants, which emit levels of harmful nitrogen oxides that are at least 30 times higher than emissions from newer turbines, according to Gov. Cuomo’s office.
"While the Trump Administration continues its assault on protections that keep communities safe from harmful emissions, New York is once again taking aggressive action to protect public health and combat climate change,” Cuomo said in a Monday statement.
“These restrictions on dirty and inefficient power plants will improve air quality in overburdened communities and spur investments in the clean energy economy,” he added.
Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study | Environment | The Guardian
This totally makes sense. Cities with lots of air pollution are dark and dingy with buildings covered with black soot and gray and dingy skies. I think one of the reasons why crime has fallen in recent decades so much - murder after all is suicide by other means.
Meet America’s super polluters
Trump’s EPA Can’t Erase Interstate Smog Rules | InsideClimate News
A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday struck down a 2018 Trump administration rule that had relieved states of their obligation to curb air pollution that causes smog in downwind states hundreds of miles away.
The ruling requires the Environmental Protection Agency to draw up a new plan for addressing the nation's long-standing problems with ground-level ozone, or smog, to meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act. It's a task that the Trump administration has made far more difficult by rolling back the restrictions on coal power plant pollution in the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's signature policy on climate change.