MGKF Law

AUGUST 2, 2023

On July 25, 2023, a Third Circuit panel rejected an environmental group’s challenge of federally approved changes to Pennsylvania’s State Implementation Plan (“SIP”), holding that the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) emissions-based analysis did not violate the Clean Air Act (“CAA”).

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A citizens’ group in West Virginia is suing the Environmental Protection Agency, alleging that federal regulators have failed to protect a majority-Black community in the state and residents of parts of Louisiana and Texas from cancer-causing chemicals. Read the full story from ProPublica.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 4, 2021

With that wide public sentiment for fireworks, there is actually almost no environmental regulation for the setting off of millions of little explosions of the more than 99% of fireworks imported from China. Congress has legislated the treatment of air quality data influenced by exceptional events, which includes fireworks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

The power sector is the second highest source of climate pollution in the U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a proposed rule which would limit carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning power plants, a move which is critically important, statutorily required, and long overdue.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

On April 30, Senate Bill 1174 (Stefano-R-Fayette) was reported out of the Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee with unanimous Republican support that would allow any “public utility” to petition the Public Utility Commission to waive any law, regulation or policy under the Commission’s jurisdiction, if it benefits ratepayers.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

The following factsheet on asthma and air pollution from natural gas facilities was compiled by the Environmental Health Project -- Asthma is a chronic disease that affects breathing. Air pollution from shale gas infrastructure tends to be episodic, so symptoms may come and go. In the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

On February 3, the Associated Press reported the Department of Environmental Protection filed a lawsuit in Commonwealth Court to compel the Legislative Reference Bureau to publish the final RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Regulations covering power plants in the PA Bulletin so they can become effective.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Now comes the court’s crippling of the most important federal weapon available to avoid catastrophic climate change and its associated killing of tens of thousands of Americans every year with fossil fuel air pollution. When it comes to environmental hazards, air pollution is by far the most common, with 90 percent of the world’s 2.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) released a draft set of recommendations calling on the EPA to tighten its current standard for ground-level ozone pollution to protect public health. Here’s how the process is supposed to work.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The study-- Hazardous Air Pollutants In Transmission Pipeline Natural Gas: An Analytic Assessment -- was accepted for publication in Environmental Research Letters journal September 16. blowdowns and blowouts), which we now know not only contains methane, but also Hazardous Air Pollutants and other chemicals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Late last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asked the public to provide oral comments on a major rule that will determine how much soot pollution you are exposed to. But the oral comments also included several speakers representing the industries producing a substantial amount of this deadly air pollution.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The inflation claim is new, prompted by the passage of the 2021 Infrastructure law and the 2022 IRA. In fact, we might need even stricter environmental regulations to help cool the economy and cut inflation. The National Association of Manufacturers recently claimed that new regulations to cut air pollution would “threaten $162.4

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2022

On May 17, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Allegheny County Health Department announced the U.S. 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 Corporation will pay a $1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

According to scholar and advocate Dr. 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.”

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

Derailing Environmental Protection: Concerns Over Air and Water After the East Palestine, OH Derailment By Jacob Baverso The Department of Transportation recognizes rail shipment for hazardous materials as the safest method to move such materials over long distances. ppm averaged over 8 hours).

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Environment, Law, and History

APRIL 29, 2022

The recently published open-access book, Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook , edited by Anna-Katharina Wöbse and Patrick Kupper (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021), has a number of law-related chapters.

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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.

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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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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. Community members quickly came together and a local grassroots group, Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP), began to sound the alarm.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2023

This means that our congressional representatives will debate and discuss scientific integrity protections in committee and potentially even vote on the issue in coming months. Stop attacks on science and urge Congress to pass this bill It is hard to overstate the importance of codifying scientific integrity protections into law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2024

At the top of my mind are efforts to defend and advance environmental justice, the idea that all people have the right to equal protection under environmental laws and regulations, as defined by scholar and advocate Dr. Robert Bullard. For a completely hypothetical example, if the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on a proposed Chapter 105 Encroachments Permit covering a proposed CNX Midstream double 24-inch, 13.9 mile long gas pipelines in Bell, Loyalhanna and Salem Townships, Westmoreland County.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

but nothing has been done [ Read more here ] Frustration in the ability of state law to prevent damage caused by pipeline construction related to the Mariner East Pipeline can be illustrated by a 2018 quote from Republican Sen. million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. Wolf [ Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2023

Pennsylvanians have a constitutional right to clean air and pure water, and my Administration will hold all companies – no matter how big or small – accountable when they violate the laws and regulations protecting our air and water,” said Gov. Josh Shapiro.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2023

Research shows that gas stoves emit hazardous pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), as well as methane, which leaks mainly when the stoves are off. As far back as 1986, scientists at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warned the CSPC about gas stoves’ potential health risks.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

The agency launched its Environmental Justice Index on August 11, 2022, which would assign an environmental justice score for communities based on data identifying the cumulative impacts of environmental burden. Tax Credits.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Here’s the issue that the industry thinks the Supreme Court absolutely has to consider right this minute: “Whether the court should stay the Environmental Protection Agency’s Federal ‘Good Neighbor Plan’ for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards as it applies to reheat furnaces and boilers at iron and steel mills.”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2024

page 17 ] The original language of the bill established a new Independent Energy Office, which is still in the legislation, to analyze energy policies, regulations and laws. As draft, any permit ordered to be issued by the Authority would fail to meet minimum standards in federal laws and regulations on its face.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

On February 22, the Department of Environmental Protection reported the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County paid an additional $2,671,044.75 in civil penalties for air quality violations occurring after the May 24, 2023 consent order. However, in Paragraph 14.b Paragraph 14.b on June 20, 2023 -- $1,046,766.94

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In the absence of a federal heat standard, hundreds of thousands of farmworkers remain without protection. Personal protection equipment mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency—including long sleeves and multiple layers—are often uncomfortable to wear in warmer weather and can cause overheating.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

On April 9, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has assessed significant civil penalties totaling $1,114,000 from Equitrans, L.P. billion cubic feet of gas was released at the facility in uncontrolled venting. Related Articles - Rager Mountain: -- Equitrans Determined Leak Of Over 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency announced a record 45 states , plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and dozens of Metropolitan Statistical Areas have now developed priority climate action plans through investments made possible by the federal Inflation Reduction Act’s Investing in America program. On March 11, the U.S.

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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. Then a coalition of states and environmental groups challenged the denial, and the result was the landmark decision Massachusetts v. In the year 2023, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

On November 15, Beaver County residents joined with organizations from across the region to call for accountability and heightened emergency preparedness after dozens of malfunctions and pollution from the Shell Petrochemical Plant during its first year of operation. These pollutants include things like benzene, a known cancer-causing agent.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, he asserted, “Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. In his draft ruling, Alito conferred credibility and salience to British anti-abortion laws of the 17 th and 13 th centuries. Broader implications.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This week, the federal government discussed their ambition to tackle highly hazardous and cancer-causing chemicals regulated under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). We are watching with bated breath to see if chemical industry resistance and lobbying will take precedence over protecting human and environmental health.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

On August 29, the Environmental Hearing Board ruled in favor of three environmental groups in their appeal of the air pollution permit for the proposed Renovo Energy Center natural gas-fired power plant in Clinton County, finding the Department of Environmental Protection set limits for sulfur dioxide and volatile organic compounds too high.

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