Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2022

The Biden Administration is slowly grinding away at an important regulatory task: reconsidering the air quality standards for particulates and ozone. Quick legal background: The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set national ambient air quality standards or NAAQS (pronounced “knacks”). is over 600 pages long.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards. Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. The history of these pollution standards is quite distinctive. grams per mile (gpm) for NOx. gpm NOx standard.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

and numerous affiliated companies (collectively, GWRSI) for violation of Clean Air Act (CAA) locomotive regulations. NOx is a contributor to the formation of summer ozone, and particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns has been shown to cause lung damage and cancer.

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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.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2022

discussing the ways in which local air districts can take action to end harmful air pollution from building appliances. In California, CARB and the state’s 35 local air districts share authority to adopt and enforce control strategies to achieve these standards.

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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. The proposed rule would provide de minimus air quality benefits in downwind areas with extremely high costs – estimated by EPA at $22 billion discounted 2016 dollars for the 2023-2042 period.

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