During the recent virtual Leaders Summit on Climate,
President Biden announced his goal to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by
50-52% from 2005’s levels by the year 2030. This more than doubles the previous
US goals set in 2015 to cut emissions by 26-28% by the year 2025. Additionally,
President Biden also set a target to have net zero emissions economy-wide no
later than the year 2050. The focus on environmental standards would allow for
new infrastructure and thus new technologies and job creation.
Biden also re-entered the Paris Agreement, an international
treaty with the goal to tackle climate change. Some of the main objectives
include limiting greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity to levels
that the earth can naturally absorb as well as setting national determined
contributions (NDCs) that are reviewed every five years to maintain and
increase climate change momentum.
Environmental Source Samplers, Inc. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Instagram EPA Validates First Analytical Method for PFAS in Wastewater, Surface Water, Groundwater, and Soils. Share on facebook
The final rule for National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Major Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters: Amendments, also knows as the Boiler MACT, are due shortly.
In a study published July 9, 2021, researchers at Duke University correlated theorized elevated rates of Alzheimer’s disease, non-Alzheimer’s dementia, and Parkinson’s disease to long-term exposure to elevated levels of ambient air particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) that exceed the World Health Organization (WHO) air quality standards (≥10μg/m3).
