Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Frito-Lay today announced the near completion of its Modesto, California, facility’s transformation into a first-of-its-kind showcase for sustainable manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution technologies.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

That’s primarily due to two key features of the CWA: first, a nationwide permit system designed to mandate aggressive application of pollution control technology to limit pollution from “point sources” such as factories and power plants.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

First, the agency needs to figure out which changes in the power sector were due to new technologies, other regulations, or market shifts. This would be especially challenging for the mercury rule, according to EPA, “because the rule regulates hundreds of units within a complex, interdependent, and dynamic economic sector.”

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Circle of Blue

JULY 28, 2021

The Hindustan Times reports that the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board identified six major drains as the main sources of the pollution. People familiar with the situation said potential investors were deterred by the plant’s old age, use of outdated technology, and poor environmental credentials. 30 CASES.

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Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 18, 2022

That’s primarily due to two key features of the CWA: first, a nationwide permit system designed to mandate aggressive application of pollution control technology to limit pollution from “point sources” such as factories and power plants.

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Water Research & Technology

JANUARY 27, 2021

We are delighted to announce that Jason Ren (Princeton University, USA) is joining the Associate Editor team for Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. Jason has been an Editorial Board member of the journal since 2018. Jason is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University, USA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

As a result, these new standards only consider facility-specific pollution controls, such as installing carbon capture equipment or burning lower-carbon fuels with higher-carbon fuels, like hydrogen with fossil gas. That means there are really two different questions when you ask about “feasibility.”

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Instead, EPA said, the proliferation of “local control measures to reduce pollution from building heating by restricting or limiting the use of natural gas-fired heaters support their general availability as technologically feasible measures.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Which means the consequences of these polluters unabashedly continuing to pollute aren’t just severe—they’re compounding. The IRA gave us effective tools for cleaning up the power sector through dedicated support for the rapid and widescale deployment of renewable resources and the technologies that support them.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Gas stoves, which are in 38 percent of US households, not only emit methane, but also toxic pollutants besides NO2 that are associated with respiratory ailments and cancer. A 2022 study in Environmental Science and Technology detected more than 20 volatile organic compounds, including hexane, toluene and benzene, in unburned stove gas.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Require Use Of Latest Technology Most importantly, DEP should restrict this funding to gas companies that use the most up-to-date pollution control technologies at their functioning gas wells and compressor stations, such as those that will be required in EPA’s forthcoming rules.

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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. Cars and trucks are a lot cleaner than when I was growing up.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2022

Other grants will be spent on projects to reduce gang violence, restore historic sites, and fund health technology. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced a new statewide monitoring system for PFAS, the family of toxic chemicals sweeping across water systems in the Midwest and beyond. ON THE HILL: U.S. Other News.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

DEP said it has the statutory authority in the 1995 law that created the agency, the state Air Pollution Control Act and other laws to establish grant and funding programs to implement the Plan. Pennsylvania’s Climate Action Priority Plan is available online. Visit DEP’s Priority Climate Action Plan webpage for more information.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste. But efforts to add new pollutants to the list haven’t kept pace with our growing understanding of the risks from substances that weren’t on regulators’ radar 50 years ago, including PFAS.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2021

However, he thought that this particular law did clearly preclude consideration of cost, partly in the interest of forcing industry to innovate new pollution control technologies. He found that approach reasonable.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

Today’s settlement requires GWRSI to bring its fleet of locomotives into compliance with Clean Air Act pollution control requirements,” said Acting Assistant Administrator Larry Starfield of EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2022

The groups also objected on the grounds that this second extension authorized the use of an outdated and inappropriate pollution control technology, that DEP set air pollution limits too high, and several other deficiencies spelled out in the Notice of Appeal. Click Here for a copy of the settlement.

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Montrose

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

“In what is widely regarded as a stable market, a number of companies exceeded the norms of low single-digit growth with double-digit growth or ambitious ventures into new practice areas or technology development,” said Grant Ferrier, president of Environmental Business International Inc. publisher of Environmental Business Journal.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Congress specifically “entrust[ed] such complex balancing to EPA,” because that “expert agency” has the needed “scientific, economic, and technological resources” to carry it out. at 427; see §7411(a)(1) (instructing EPA to consider “energy requirements,” “cost,” and other factors). at 427–428. Milo Minderbinder would be very pleased.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. Buildings are one of Colorado’s top five sources of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s a major step forward in protecting both public health and clean air.”

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2019, EPA issued the Affordable Clean Energy rule , repealing the Clean Power Plan on the basis that EPA only had the narrow authority to base standards on technologies that could be applied directly “to or at” individual power plants, rather than strategies that involve broader shifts in power sources (so-called “beyond the fenceline” measures).

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Vermont Law

MARCH 30, 2020

On September 12, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a judgment that added another untenable wrinkle in the fabric of groundwater pollution regulation. At first blush, groundwater appears distinct from the federally regulated category of navigable waters.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

The draft white paper presents information on the performance of state-of-the-art combustion turbine technologies and describes additional opportunities for GHG emission cuts. States and the public may also find the white paper useful to inform state-level actions to combat climate change and individual permitting considerations.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Copper and nickel are crucial minerals for clean energy technologies. 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.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

However, he thought that this particular law did clearly preclude consideration of cost, partly in the interest of forcing industry to innovate new pollution control technologies. He found that approach reasonable.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Both systems have required very little maintenance during this time and are utilized as prime examples of the benefits of Anoxic Limestone Drain (ALD) technology when used for the proper water quality. The SR114B and SR114D passive systems, located in the Slippery Rock Creek Watershed, were constructed in 1995 and are now 28 years old.

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Vermont Law

MAY 20, 2021

Much of the technology for this sustainable development already exists, but is covered by exclusive patent rights. Because of this, there have been many attempts to develop programs that can facilitate the dissemination and use of existing patented technology for developing and less developed countries. implementation. together.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2022

Bogen wrote this introduction to the report-- In 2021, ACHD expanded and implemented new technology and programs and completed some long-term studies that will inform our future. On August 15, the Allegheny County Health Department released an Air Quality Annual Review covering accomplishments in 2021. Dr. Debra L.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Moreover, inclusion of offsets would be entirely discordant with the intention of 45V, which is specifically designed to incentivize technology and process innovations to enable truly clean hydrogen production. Allowing project qualification via offsetting undermines that innovation while further entrenching polluting production projects.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2022

This regulation adopts reasonably available control technology requirements and RACT emission limits for oil and natural gas sources of volatile organic compounds. This regulation, which is a key part of DEP’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Commonwealth, has been in development since early 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

EPA’s final rule leverages the latest cost-effective, innovative technologies and proven solutions to prevent an estimated 58 million tons of methane emissions from 2024 to 2038, the equivalent of 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide – nearly as much as all the carbon dioxide emitted by the power sector in 2021.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The tools and technology for achieving that goal in agriculture are well understood and applied with differing levels of authority, commitment, and effectiveness around the world, but not across the United States. a potential solution is chemical technology to scrub harmful algal blooms from lakes. In the U.S.,

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

By mandating pollution controls on wastewater treatment plants and industrial facilities, it marked a new era of environmental stewardship — an era in which rivers and lakes were viewed not as dumping grounds but as civic assets that fostered recreation, ecological rebirth, and economic development. During a storm?

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Breezometer

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District urged people with heart or lung disease to follow doctors’ advice for dealing with episodes of particulate exposure. ” - - Fresnobee. To learn more about our air quality monitoring technology, check out our dedicated guide below: LANCASTER, Calif.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

billion for a competitive grant and rebate program for the purpose of “purchas[ing] or install[ing] zero-emissions port equipment or technology” at ports. Funds from this appropriation may also be awarded for planning and permitting relating to such zero-emission equipment and technology, and for a port’s climate action planning.

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