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EPA’s Power Plant Rule is Not Bold. It’s What’s Required.

Legal Planet

Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. For weeks, we’ve seen headlines about “Biden going big on regulating power plants” and “Biden’s aggressive new rule for power plants” as if it were simply a White House strategy.

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NRDC: Regulation Is Too Weak For Radioactive Oil And Gas Drilling Wastewater, Other Waste

PA Environment Daily

A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. Despite the clear health risks, there are no dedicated federal regulations to ensure comprehensive and safer management of radioactive oil and gas materials. What does this mean for workers and communities?

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Will EPA Follow the Science and Protect Us from Ozone Pollution?

Union of Concerned Scientists

This track record is even more troubling considering that the Clean Air Act requires that only science can be used when setting the standard for major ambient air pollutants, something I covered in depth in a previous blog post. The Obama administration continued this ugly tradition.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” The case ultimately wound up in the US Supreme Court, which, in its controversial West Virginia v.

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Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Corp Watch

billion in 2014 to the U.S. References: In Mexico, $2 per hour workers make $40,000 SUVs A Toyota Factory Revs Up in Tijuana Toyota Warns US Workers: Build Camry for Less, or Else Toyota workers urged to reject union Toyota slapped with $180 million fine for violating Clean Air Act U.S. It paid out a fine of $1.2

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EPA’s Shifting Guidance on Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction Defenses in State Implementation Plans and Its Effect in Louisiana

The Energy Law Blog

On September 30, 2021, the EPA once again signaled a policy change on what provisions a state can include in its Clean Air Act State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) for exemptions and affirmative defenses during periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction (“SSM”). 2008), and a 2014 decision, in which the D.C. 3d 1019 (D.C.

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New Texas Legislation Authorizes TCEQ to Permit Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Energy Law Blog

By Jillian Marullo House Bill 788, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (“GHG”) “[t]o the extent that greenhouse gas emissions require authorization under federal law.”