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. This post focuses on Ohio EPA’s anticipated regulatory changes to address non-attainment of the 2015 Ozone NAAQS.
Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2022
Second, the agency needs information about the costs of facility-by-facility changes, such as shifts in how often facilities are used, their fuel consumption, and how pollution controls were actually operated. For example, natural gas production went up by around 50% from 2011-2015, displacing a lot of coal-fired generation.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
Section 111 employs a two-phase process where, once EPA moves to regulate pollution from a new source—here, power plants—(111(b)), it is then required to regulate that pollution from existing sources, too (111(d)). As a result, EPA will be updating standards for new plants and fully developing standards for existing plants.
Greenbuilding Law
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Rare earth metals are not only used in automobile pollution control devices (and not just in the U.S. The National Insurance Crime Bureau, the public source for vehicle theft data reported to insurance companies, stopped tracking catalytic converter thefts in 2015. The pollution control devices have been required in the U.S.
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 3, 2022
Since this final-form rulemaking is being promulgated under the APCA [state Air Pollution Control Act] in Title 35, the requirements of Act 52 do not apply. Even so, the Board amended this final-form rulemaking to clarify that the control measures are only applicable to unconventional sources of VOC emissions.”
Legal Planet
JANUARY 25, 2022
The challenge originates with the Obama Administration’s 2015 Clean Power Plan , which required states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants by 32 percent (below 2005 levels) by 2030, in line with the national commitment under the Paris Agreement.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
By 2051, the Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant would receive between 20 million and 40 million more liters of wastewater per day, which the facility would clean and dump into Lake Ontario. Moreover, Ontario’s wastewater management system would be put to the test.
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