Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to review—and update—its ethylene oxide emissions standards every eight years, but the last time it did so was in 2006. Last year, the Texas Department of State Health Services published the results of a cancer cluster study near a commercial sterilizer in Laredo, Texas.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Two other states—Texas and North Dakota—filed an amicus brief supporting EPA; the petitioners opposed their participation on procedural grounds. Clean Air Council v. Pruitt , No. 17-1145 (D.C. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). The California Supreme Court denied three petitions for review.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

6] But events in mid-February throughout the center of the country, including Texas, and last summer in California, suggest that attempting to replace nuclear plants with variable renewable energy sources could make electricity grids less resilient. The answer is that there was a lot more generating capacity in 2006 than in 2020.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

It changed long-time agency policy to allow major sources of pollution to reclassify as area sources, a category with fewer regulatory requirements, once their emissions fell below a certain threshold. Texas power generation companies will have to better prepare for extreme weather under bills Gov.

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