Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. None of these apply to the new car rule: The new rule is based on a legal provision that EPA has applied for decades to regulate cars, rather than an obscure and rarely used legal provision. The rule is not unprecedented.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

District Court on Monday a proposed consent decree in settlement of their federal Clean Air Act lawsuit against United States Steel Corporation. Steel will pay a $5 million penalty -- by far the largest in a Clean Air Act citizen enforcement suit in Pennsylvania history, and one of the three largest ever nationally.

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MGKF Law

MARCH 27, 2023

EPA’s Clean Air Act (“CAA”) rulemakings directed at power plants are often the target of regulatory challenges in federal court. Read More » Tags: Air , Clean Air Act , EPA , HAPs , Hazardous Air Pollutants , Rulemaking 13956 (Mar. EPA, 576 U.S. 743 (2015).

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Environment, Law, and History

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But the Clean Air Act has nonetheless had a major impact. Here’s what EPA has to say on the subject — and remember, this is from the Trump EPA, which is no fan of regulation: Experience with the Clean Air Act since 1970 has shown that protecting public health and building the economy can go hand in hand.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Ohio and some other states argue that the waiver unconstitutionally gives California more power to regulate than it gives them. Q: Hi, Sean.

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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. EPA regulations require that rebuilt locomotive engines use the latest technology (for that model year locomotive) to reduce emissions.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

On October 17, 2022, the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed finding that lead air pollution may reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health and welfare within the meaning of Section 231(a) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

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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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

But in this blog post, I unpack an aspect of the decision where I think it was more of a mixed bag: the court’s treatment of the international air pollution provision of the Clean Air Act, Section 115. The headline here is that the Second Circuit found that Section 115 authorizes the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

May 11, the Environmental Integrity Project and Clean Air Council filed a federal lawsuit against the Shell Petrochemical Plant for repeatedly violating permitted air pollution limits from a massive new plastics production plant in Beaver County, which opened last year. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S.

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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.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

EPA , conservatives and industry interests have claimed that just about every new regulation violates the major question doctrine. The regulations coming out of the EPA and the Transportation Department are the most expensive in U.S. They are designed to remake, not to regulate, our energy systems.”

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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

Croix and in South Carolina, EPA invoked Section 303 of the Clean Air Act, which provides for the issuance of an emergency order in response to an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health or welfare, to require immediate actions to either pause operations or reduce emissions from the facilities. In actions in St.

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Legal Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Does this decision increase the threat that EPA’s proposed new regulations will be struck down under this doctrine? The Court painted a picture of the loan forgiveness program that is worlds away from the regulations EPA is considering. EPA does not claim “virtually unlimited power to rewrite” the Clean Air Act.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2023

There are Supreme Court cases going back a century or more dealing with what we would now consider environmental issues such as preserving nature or air pollution. I began with a Westlaw search for the term “air pollution.” The earliest opinion I found was Huron Portland Cement Co. City of Detroit. Seattle Disposal Co.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 23, 2023

That bill, introduced in 2001 and passed the next year, told the California Air Resources Board to create such standards using ARB’s special powers under the Clean Air Act to develop more strict air pollution controls for cars than the federal government (explained here ). Frank Pallone, Jr.,

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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. Reducing appliance emissions is a critical step on the path to healthy air. Local air districts can and should use their power to push for zero-emission appliances. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

Ground-level ozone pollution is a nasty air pollutant that can cause lung problems and asthma attacks. Sadly, the process of setting an outdoor ozone pollution standard has a long history of being undermined by political leaders under the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. Here’s how the process is supposed to work.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The case involved the lynchpin of the Clean Air Act, EPA’s power to set national air quality standards. The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. Among other things, the Clean Air Act gives federal protection to wetlands.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In a major win for community members in South Memphis, Tennessee, a facility emitting a toxic air pollutant— ethylene oxide (EtO)—announced late last month that it will close its doors. We also estimated that EtO emissions contributed to more than 80 percent of the cancer risk attributable to toxic air pollution around the facility.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

After weeks of hints and leaks, yesterday morning (May 11, 2023), EPA proposed a new rule regulating emissions from power plants. SO2, and NOx – harmful air pollutants that are known to endanger public health. This language, particularly the bolded text, is important. The Court rejected this approach.

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Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2021

In its closing days, the Trump Administration issued a rule designed to tilt EPA’s cost-benefit analysis of air pollution regulations in favor of industry. The Trump rule contained an industry wish list of provisions, all of them designed to make regulation more difficult. Last week, EPA rescinded the rule.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Here are the options going forward for regulating existing power plants. Switch to another legal basis for regulation. The Clean Power Plan was based on section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. Fossil fuel plants — coal-fired power plants in particular — cause serious air pollution problems.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates emissions of EtO, yet the agency is years behind on updating standards and control requirements, despite mounting evidence of the harm of long-term EtO exposure. A decade overdue , EPA is finalizing updated regulations for commercial sterilizers now.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Robert Bullard, “environmental justice embraces the principle that all people and communities have a right to equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.” 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

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The EJ focus now includes other measures to ensure that vulnerable communities get the benefit of climate regulations. The most powerful tool for assisting those communities, however, may be the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). Air pollution is the biggest threat to poor communities and communities of color.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

“At GASP we not only monitor air quality and challenge industrial polluters’ illegal emissions, we also work to hold air quality regulators accountable for doing their jobs and fulfilling the duties that air pollution laws impose on them,” Executive Director Patrick Campbell explained.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation. The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. Download as PDF

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

California has a longstanding leadership role on transportation pollution, and the Clean Air Act grants the state the right to set strong vehicle emissions standards. Over 10,000 UCS supporters chimed in with EPA in support of granting California’s ability to enforce its truck regulations. Washington.

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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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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

At the high temperatures in internal combustion engines, some of the nitrogen in the air actually burns, resulting in the formation NO or NO 2 , which are collectively called NOx. For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx standards for new cars itself. The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On February 12, environmental groups announced the US Environmental Protection Agency formally objected to an air quality permit for the US Steel Edgar Thomson Plant issued by the Allegheny County Health Department in August 2023 saying it was not in compliance with the Clean Air Act. Steel Edgar Thomson by ACHD.

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Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 23, 2021

This week the Biden Administration released their PFAS Strategic Roadmap which sets forth ambitious action on regulation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) pollution, including targeted action with deadlines for eight different federal agencies. Regulation of PFOA and PFOS in Drinking Water on an Accelerated Schedule.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2022

Cleaning up the mess and issuing new regulations is Priority #1 for the Biden Administration. No one of them is transformative standing alone, but their cumulative impact will be substantially cleaner air and lower carbon emissions. EPA restored of California’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 1, 2022

And as EPA moves forward with its own proposal to finally strengthen truck pollution regulations, industry has been waging an all-out war on those, too. This fight by industry to delay, obstruct, and otherwise thwart stronger regulation has devastating consequences. Image: Freightliner ).

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