PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

On February 17, the Clean Air Council and the Environmental Integrity Project sent a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection urging the state to temporarily halt operations at a Shell plastics chemical plant in Beaver County that has repeatedly violated air pollution limits and recently released plumes of black smoke for several hours.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On November 17, Erie Coke Corporation, along with a corporate officer, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on among other charges, Violation of the Clean Air Act, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today. The eight-count Indictment, returned on Nov.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Carol F. One such tool is EPA’s Geospatial Measurement of Air Pollution (“GMAP”) mobile laboratory. As explained in its fact sheet , the GMAP is a mobile air monitoring vehicle that is equipped with analyzers for methane, BTEX, total VOCs, H? In actions in St.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Look at it this way: In 1970, when the Clean Air Act was passed, the unemployment rate was twice what it is today. A March 2022 article in the Journal of Economic Literature took a careful look at the impact of the Clean Air Act on jobs. The Act applied everywhere in the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

The Heritage Foundation’s argument against the 2022 rule reads the West Virginia case very broadly: “Under West Virginia v. In West Virginia , the Court stressed that EPA had used an obscure, seldom used provision of the Clean Air Act to adopt an unprecedented regulation. Circuit are slim to none.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2022

million penalty and make extensive improvements at its steel production facility in Braddock, Pennsylvania, as part of a settlement covering longstanding air pollution violations. Steel is required to make numerous improvements in training, monitoring and work practices to increase compliance and timely response to air pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

I had a small glimpse into this work in early 2022 when his office reached out to me after reading a report I co-authored on the risk of chemical spills from storage tanks in Virginia. A myriad of studies since have validated these findings across a number of exposures, such as soot air pollution (PM2.5

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 Still, the program has an inherent limitation: it addresses pollution per mile, but not the number of miles driven. trillion miles in 2022. (If grams per mile (gpm) for NOx. That has approximately tripled since 1970. How about that for tax reform?)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. The Supreme Court clipped the agency’s wings in its 2022 West Virginia v. EPA decision, but it did not ground EPA.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The Donora Smog Disaster of 1948 in Washington County is perhaps the most infamous air pollution event in American history. For more information on programs, initiatives, upcoming events and how you can get involved, visit the Group Against Smog and Pollution website. Posted: November 16, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The EPA also plans to issue a rule by the end of 2022 with strengthened emissions requirements for approximately 100 commercial sterilizer facilities across the country. EPA plans to issue a Clean Air Act rulemaking for commercial sterilizers later this year and for other chemical facilities soon, as well.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Robert B. EPA as a decision depriving EPA of an important tool to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. First Court did not eliminate the Agency’s ability to require greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reductions under section 111 or any other section of the Clean Air Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Since the beginning of 2022, electric vehicle sales in the United States have been downright electrifying. This has been particularly true in your home state of California, which historically has set the clean car agenda for the rest of the country because of its waiver under the Clean Air Act to set its own air pollution standards.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection notified the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County it will no longer be able to operate under an Air Quality Construction permit and must submit an application for a full Title V Air Quality Permit within 120 days. 12,671,044.75

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Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act added reporting requirements of PFAS releases for certain industries. EPA intends to propose a rulemaking in 2022 to categorize the PFAS on the TRI list as “Chemicals. Evaluate whether PFAS Compounds should be Designated “Hazardous Air Pollutants” under the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

On April 25, the Eyes On Shell citizens initiative reported fenceline air pollution monitoring data at Shell's Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County reported benzene levels of over 185 µg/m3 and 89 µg/m3 they said was above the 29 µg/m3 minimum risk level established by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency's ability to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants under the federal Clean Air Act. EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Donora Smog Disaster of 1948 is perhaps the most infamous air pollution event in American history and it happened in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Visit the Group Against Smog & Pollution website for more information on air pollution and environmental health issues in Western Pennsylvania.

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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. At the end of 2022, there were more than 283 million. Even so, cars and trucks are still making us sick—and killing us.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

The information may assist states and local air pollution control agencies, Tribal authorities, and regulated entities in their consideration of technologies and measures that may be implemented to reduce GHG emissions from stationary combustion turbines. EPA is asking for public comment for 45 days, through June 6, 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

On November 15, 2022, Erie Coke Corporation, along with the plant superintendent, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on among other charges, violation of the Clean Air Act. Such hazardous air pollutants were released directly into the air to avoid the plant’s environmental monitoring system.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2023

Report -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pittsburgh Air Quality Improves In New Report, But Takes Steps Back, Too -- MCall: Lehigh Valley Has Some Of The Worst Air Quality In The Country -- PennLive: Harrisburg Area Air Quality Gets Mixed Grades -- UnionProgress.com: Half Of 1.8

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

July 12, 2022 — On June 30, the U.S. EPA held the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan Rule exceeded EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. EPA ) held that CO2 and other greenhouse gasses meet the definition of an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Eugene M. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. This level of forced retirements is far in excess of any prior EPA projections of plant shutdowns resulting from implementation of a Clean Air Act rulemaking. It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

-- UnionProgress.com: Environmental Groups Give Beaver County Shell Petrochemical Plant ‘F’ Grade For First 100 Days In Operation -- Beaver County Times: Shell Petrochemical Plant Hit With Air Violations; Activists Call For Operations Halt -- PennLive Guest Essay: Air Pollution Is Killing Us, We’ve Got To Act Now To Stop It - By Carolyn Heckman, Evangelical (..)

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 8, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes air quality standards under the Clean Air Act. (1) ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION (EIA), NATURAL GAS VENTED AND FLARED (2022), [link] U.S.

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Acoel

JANUARY 11, 2022

Posted on January 11, 2022 by David G. 9, 2022) at SR-7. Times No. 9, 2022) at SR-7. In my January 2021 column for the Legal Intelligencer ’s Pennsylvania Law Weekly I suggested the opposite, or maybe an inside-out version of the same thing: “[t]he governmental response to the viral pandemic is. 7, 2022) ; Biden v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. In the 2022-23 term, the court will hear Sackett v.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 26, 2022

On October 21, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) released a request for information (RFI) regarding Section 60103 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) , also known as the IRA’s “green bank” provisions. Public comments may be submitted on the RFI’s docket until December 5, 2022. By Amy Turner.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

The regulations are based on federal law and regulations that classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant that is required to be regulated under the federal Clean Air Act and by states with primacy for regulating air pollution like Pennsylvania.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013.

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