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Category: Air Quality
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Yikes. *Ohio (Come Back to Texas)
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Current air quality. Oof.
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Gallup reports: "Concern About Several Environmental Problems Dips in U.S." Here's the evidence. So, I downloaded the data, redrew the graphs, added trendlines, then deleted the original data to better suss out the underlying trends without all the confusing squiggly lines. Here you go. Oh, and I gave it a new title: No Obvious Conclusion…
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New York City will implement its first congestion charge program by the end of 2023… perhaps. The charge was passed in 2019 but has faced delays until present. Unsurprisingly, New Yorkers don't love it… but it will grow on them (if you'll forgive my out of sample prediction). The figure below reports percent of residents…
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From NOAA Research News (One facility makes a big contribution to Salt Lake’s winter brown cloud): The 2.4 million people who live along Utah’s Wasatch Front experience some of the most severe winter particulate matter air pollution in the nation. Now, analysis of measurements taken during NOAA research flights in 2017 indicates that emissions from…
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From the WSJ (EVs Made Up 10% of All New Cars Sold Last Year): Electric-vehicle sales crossed a global milestone last year, achieving around 10% market share for the first time, driven mainly by strong growth in China and Europe, according to fresh data and estimates. While EVs still make up a fraction of car…
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Warning: NSFW (Unless you work at a University and part of your job is to watch stuff like this and post it on a blog). The highlights of this have been around all week, but most of the clips are just Bill Nye the Science Guy saying "motherf***ers. But this segment on Last Week Tonight…
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Here is a summary of an analysis of part of the Trump Administration energy policy from a new RFF working paper by Daniel Shawhan and Paul Picciano: A leaked US government memo proposes preventing the scheduled retirement of coal and nuclear power plants for two years. Using a detailed simulation model, we estimate the effects of…
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And then there's this… Citing the risk of conflicts of interest, the EPA administrator instituted a sweeping change to the agency’s core system of advisory panels on Tuesday, restricting membership to scientists who don’t receive EPA grants. In practice, the move represents “a major purge of independent scientists,” Terry F. Yosie, chair of the EPA’s Science Advisory…
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