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Top A&WMA Newswire Articles of 2020
As 2020 comes to a close, A&WMA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide a look back at the most accessed articles from the year. Look for more of the top articles from 2020 in the Dec. 30 issue. Our regular publication will resume Wednesday, Jan. 6.
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Atmospheric CO2 levels rise sharply despite COVID-19 lockdowns
Carbon Brief
From June 10: Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have risen strongly to a new peak this year, reports the Guardian, despite the impact of the global effects of the coronavirus crisis. According to readings from the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 417.2 parts per million (ppm) in May, 2.4 ppm higher than the peak of 414.8 ppm in 2019, the paper says.
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Court orders EPA to redo ozone findings in five states
Bloomberg Law
From July 15: A federal appeals court ruled that the EPA erred when it found at least seven counties in five states were meeting federal ozone limits, and the court ordered the agency to rework the designations for all the challenged areas using the latest science. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in a per curiam decision, sided with multiple environmental groups led by Clean Wisconsin. The groups claimed the Environmental Protection Agency didn’t follow its own scientific and technical record when it decided many counties nationwide had met the 2015 ozone pollution standard of 70 parts per billion.
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As CO2 emissions drop during pandemic, methane may rise
Scentific American
From April 15: The novel coronavirus is slowly changing the mix of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere. The most profound changes in carbon dioxide were measured late last month by Columbia University in New York City, where there were 10% reductions in CO2 and a whopping 50% drop in carbon monoxide. A more serious aspect of the pandemic, however, may be that the most potent greenhouse gas — methane — could increase, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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Deadly air pollution is blowing into your state from a surprisingly large source
Science
From Feb. 19: Air pollution doesn't respect borders. A power plant in one place often ends up killing people who live far downwind. Now, a detailed analysis of how air pollution moves in the United States reveals that since 2005 premature deaths caused by two of the biggest polluters — power plants and traffic — have fallen significantly. The bad news: Deaths from residential and business emissions, like those from heating and burning trash, grew nearly 40% over the same period.
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America's air is getting worse: Here's why
Forbes
From May 27: Over the past half-century, the EPA and the Clean Air Act have dramatically reduced environmental pollutants and improved the health of all Americans. Despite this successful legacy, the EPA is facing an unprecedented threat. The White House has already rolled back emissions regulations designed to fight climate change and air pollution. By reducing efficiency standards, these rollbacks will cost consumers money. However, by reducing air quality, they may cost Americans far more than that.
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Methane emissions from burning fossil fuels has been 'vastly underestimated,' study says
USA Today
From Feb. 26: The amount of methane that comes from burning fossil fuels is much higher than previously thought — as much as 40% higher, a new study suggests. And the amount from natural sources is far lower. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with more than 80 times the climate warming impact of carbon dioxide over a 20-year span. It is also the main ingredient in natural gas and is the second-largest contributor to global warming, after carbon dioxide.
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Ozone across northern hemisphere increased over past 20 years
University of Colorado at Boulder via ScienceDaily
From Aug. 26: In a first-ever study using ozone data from commercial aircraft, researchers found that levels of the pollutant in the lowest part of Earth's atmosphere have increased across the Northern Hemisphere over the past 20 years. That's even as tighter controls on emissions of ozone precursors have lowered ground-level ozone in some places, including North America and Europe.
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EPA updates plan to limit science used in environmental rules
The New York Times
From March 11: The Trump administration has formally revised a proposal that would significantly restrict the type of research that can be used to draft environmental and public health regulations, a measure that experts say amounts to one of the government's most far-reaching restrictions on science. The revisions made public on March 3 mean the Environmental Protection Agency would give preference to studies in which all underlying data is publicly available.
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Air pollution kills thousands of Americans every year — here's a low-cost strategy to reduce the toll
EconoTimes
About 1 of every 25 deaths in the U.S. occurs prematurely because of exposure to air pollution. Dirty air kills roughly 110,000 Americans yearly, which is more than all transportation accidents and shootings combined. We study air pollution and options for reducing it. In a newly published study, we flipped the traditional approach around by starting with the goal of finding emission control actions, among all sources, that could save a specified number of lives for the lowest cost. In doing so, we identified a set of low-cost actions to reduce air pollutant emissions from highly polluting industrial and residential sources that can provide highly cost-effective health benefits.
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6 former EPA bosses call for agency reset after election
The Associated Press via The Spokesman-Review
Six former Environmental Protection Agency chiefs are calling for an agency reset after President Donald Trump’s regulation-chopping, industry-minded first term, backing a detailed plan by former EPA staffers that ranges from renouncing political influence in regulation to boosting climate-friendly electric vehicles. Most living former EPA heads joined in Wednesday’s appeal, with Trump’s first EPA chief, Scott Pruitt, being the notable exception. The group — William Reilly, Lee Thomas, Carol Browner, Christine Todd Whitman, Lisa Jackson and Gina McCarthy — served under Republican and Democratic presidents.
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The Sudbury model: How one of the world's major polluters went green
The Christian Science Monitor
From Sept. 30: When the Superstack was constructed in 1972, it was the tallest structure in Canada — and the tallest smokestack in the world. At 1,250 feet, it’s visible from every vantage point in the area. Built by Canadian company Inco before it was purchased by Vale, the Superstack has long stood as a reminder of the environmental devastation that mining wrought here. Volunteers have worked for decades in Sudbury, Ontario, to restore the land in the once-polluted mining town. They say their work holds lessons for breaking the endless cycle of conflict between industry and environmentalists.
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EPA reduces number of states that must curb downwind ozone to 12
Bloomberg Law
From Oct. 21: The EPA wants to change its regulations limiting air pollutants that cross state lines, cutting to 12 the number of states that would have to take additional actions to cut summertime power plant emissions that raise ozone levels in neighboring states.
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Trump takes on 50 years of environmental regulations, one by one
The Christian Science Monitor
From Jan. 22: The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is under attack. The Trump administration recently announced proposed reforms to the act that would significantly reduce its scope. It's the latest move in an unprecedented effort to roll back not only recent Obama-era environmental regulations but also some of the bedrock laws that have shaped federal environment policy since the 1970s.
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Thousands allowed to bypass environmental rules in pandemic
The Associated Press via Star Tribune
From Aug. 26: Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment because of the coronavirus outbreak, The Associated Press has found.
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