More than one meteor every minute will streak across the night sky when the annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak over the coming week.
The meteors are expected to appear low in the northern sky and much of the show will be blocked by the horizon, according to astronomer Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society.
SUMMARY: The question of grant-making exemptions is a political football. It has been a recurring theme in Seattle since the mid-1990s. Longstanding pleas for innovative regulation have mixed with justifications for continued exemption-policing and mitigation. Proposed exemptions have alarmed citizens, naysayers of government, and energy executives in search of bringing new capital to Seattle. This document evaluates the costs and long-run complications to cities and metropolitan areas in granting exemptions and describes San Francisco the one city that struck the balance right, keeping other cities' scads of exemptions at bay while adding oversight and transparency to existing rules.
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The State of State Air Pollution Laws in Washington. 2000-2016.
"The state of Washington's air pollution laws are outdated, inequitable, and toothless. The state legislature needs to ensure that air pollution laws are adapted to modern air quality and address the aviation industry's safety practices," said David Erickson, early warning programs manager for the Seattle Sierra Club. "Operating in an industrialized, global economy, the air industry must continue lowering emissions to ensure quality air. Washington State's breathing free air by passing adopted air pollution legislation provides the most realistic freedom to cleaner air." These conclusions are drawn from a series of legal studies over the last three years. These include perspectives from numerous experts on air pollution policy in the United States, a report from the non-partisan National Research Council, public hearings, and online comment periods on proposed air pollution carve-outs. This report examines all 50 states, cities and metropolitan areas, and the District of Columbia in order to develop a best-practice model for states to replicate.
SUMMARY: Forecasting the benefits of air polluters' exemption policies is difficult or impossible when the air is so bad.
Key findings
The most historically significant differences are found in the range and scale of compliance costs incurred by cities and metropolitan areas in sharing project-reported emissions data with regulators from 2002 to 2015. The lower costs of such disclosure have consequences for civil harm and offense litigation building costs. In the United States today, all states aim for some motive for compliance: higher public health and safety, channels money to vulnerable populations, or both. In these rules, exemptions stand in the way of transparency, disclosure, or compensation. This means air pollution monitoring has been limited, accountability has been limited, and the percentage of permit applications before an authority for regulatory review by the AG has been limited. Despite
The meteors are expected to appear low in the northern sky and much of the show will be blocked by the horizon, according to astronomer Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society.
SUMMARY: The question of grant-making exemptions is a political football. It has been a recurring theme in Seattle since the mid-1990s. Longstanding pleas for innovative regulation have mixed with justifications for continued exemption-policing and mitigation. Proposed exemptions have alarmed citizens, naysayers of government, and energy executives in search of bringing new capital to Seattle. This document evaluates the costs and long-run complications to cities and metropolitan areas in granting exemptions and describes San Francisco the one city that struck the balance right, keeping other cities' scads of exemptions at bay while adding oversight and transparency to existing rules.
Read the full report
The State of State Air Pollution Laws in Washington. 2000-2016.
"The state of Washington's air pollution laws are outdated, inequitable, and toothless. The state legislature needs to ensure that air pollution laws are adapted to modern air quality and address the aviation industry's safety practices," said David Erickson, early warning programs manager for the Seattle Sierra Club. "Operating in an industrialized, global economy, the air industry must continue lowering emissions to ensure quality air. Washington State's breathing free air by passing adopted air pollution legislation provides the most realistic freedom to cleaner air." These conclusions are drawn from a series of legal studies over the last three years. These include perspectives from numerous experts on air pollution policy in the United States, a report from the non-partisan National Research Council, public hearings, and online comment periods on proposed air pollution carve-outs. This report examines all 50 states, cities and metropolitan areas, and the District of Columbia in order to develop a best-practice model for states to replicate.
SUMMARY: Forecasting the benefits of air polluters' exemption policies is difficult or impossible when the air is so bad.
Key findings
The most historically significant differences are found in the range and scale of compliance costs incurred by cities and metropolitan areas in sharing project-reported emissions data with regulators from 2002 to 2015. The lower costs of such disclosure have consequences for civil harm and offense litigation building costs. In the United States today, all states aim for some motive for compliance: higher public health and safety, channels money to vulnerable populations, or both. In these rules, exemptions stand in the way of transparency, disclosure, or compensation. This means air pollution monitoring has been limited, accountability has been limited, and the percentage of permit applications before an authority for regulatory review by the AG has been limited. Despite
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