Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In its legislative findings, which remain in air quality statutes today , Congress justified air pollution regulation because “the growth of the amount and complexity of air pollution brought about by urbanization, industrial development, and the increasing use of motor vehicles, has resulted in mounting dangers to the public health and welfare.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In an increasingly polarized world, geothermal occupies a rare political and social space where environmental and climate-focused groups and oil and gas entities can unite to support the same cause, and it is at this nexus that Project InnerSpace focuses its funding and efforts.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

Capitol -- Politics PA: Conservative Moms For Liberty Group: Who Are They? A hearing was held on the bill June 5. Room 140 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online. Read more here. What Do They Want?

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theater that violates basic civility. That may be the case. I do not represent a large trade association.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released. These air pollutants include such things as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene. “I I don’t care what your politics are but I do care who’s side you are on. Enact setbacks now.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

TUESDAY 9:00: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 652 (Bullock-D-Philadelphia) requiring environmental impact reports on certain electric generation, waste management, sewage treatment and other facilities that are a major source of air pollution proposed in already burdened communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It’s due to a combination of factors, including tremendous demand for clean energy from states, utilities and consumers; federal regulations to reduce toxic air pollutants; and—most important—the simple fact that renewables and natural gas are now the cheapest options to meet our electricity needs.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Faces Behind a Global Crisis: US Carbon Billionaires and the UN Climate Deadlock (International Forum on Globalization, December 2012). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. billion methanol production complex under construction in St.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

The legal and political responses to the accident have been predictable. EPA’s efforts to regulate vinyl chloride as a hazardous air pollutant under section 112 of the Clean Air Act also went on for more than a decade and was ultimately a big part of the reason why Congress overhauled that section of the statute in the 1990 amendments.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Day That Changed Everything “Then by December 2012, I got my first check in. It was December 17th, 2012, remember that day explicitly, it was $148 bucks. The day I showed up there on December 17th, 2012 with a camera was the day everything changed.” “I So that's how we got off onto a bad footing,” said Latkanich.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Economic Benefits So since 2012, companies drilling for gas in the Marcellus [Shale] are paying a per well fee that can compensate state and local communities for the burdens on public services and the environment, hopefully. In Pennsylvania there was also this big increase in local employment in oil and gas sector from 2007 to 2012.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The Court affirmed that Kanuk’s specific policy requests are non-justiciable political questions. [9]. air pollution. , By constitution, statute, and precedent, Alaska’s duty to preserve natural resources probably does extend to air, and maybe to airborne effects on more traditional trust elements. March 16, 2012) (.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012. Following the transition between administrations, EPA withdrew the January version, finding that its conclusions had been compromised by political interference.[[N:News OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012. 9, 2021).]]

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. Thirteen states, the District of Columbia, and the City of Chicago sought leave to intervene on behalf of the petitioners. June 16, 2017).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

So starting in Act 13, passed in 2012, which I know lots of people are familiar with, that was really an act of deference to the oil and gas industry. At face value, investigative initiatives like advisory bodies seem like positive steps, but at several points in time, it really was merely political theater. Read more here.]

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

After the 2012 program review, RGGI lowered the cap by 45 percent between 2014 and 2020. [46]. AB 32 directed the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the state’s air pollution regulator, to implement a cap-and-trade program, which went into effect in 2013. [51].

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

6, 2012). [7]. Moreover, science cannot answer questions that are at heart economic or political, such as whether the Kyoto Protocol is worthwhile. [13]. 6, 2012, 11:15 AM), [link]. [8]. manufacturing non-competitive.” (#(@realDonaldTrump, Nov. and “This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING b t has got to stop. 2, 2014). [8].

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