Legal Planet
JANUARY 25, 2022
EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Our client is Tom Jorling, a former Senate staffer and EPA official who was directly involved in drafting the Act in 1970. (We As our brief details, the answer to both questions is plainly yes.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Vorys Law
JANUARY 26, 2021
On January 20, 2021, the Ohio EPA’s Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC) hosted a “Program Advisory Group” (PAG) meeting via Microsoft Teams to inform interested stakeholders of recent and upcoming DAPC activities.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
EPA has been implementing the Good Neighbor Provision since the 1990s to successfully reduce significant contributions from power plants (and sometimes other types of big industrial sources) to ozone pollution (also called smog) in downwind States. EPA’s latest Rule finalizes federal plan requirements for 23 upwind States.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 14, 2023
EN: These standards—or at least something based on the same Clean Air Act provision—have been in the works for a long time. In 2015, the EPA issued the Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, which at the time were the largest source of heat-trapping emissions in the country.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study.
Acoel
JUNE 29, 2022
It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. 16 of 22 counties) of the 2015 Base Case nonattainment counties are projected to be reduced by 1 ppb or more as a result of CAIR. Ozone concentrations in over 70 percent (i.e.,
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