Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

This level of forced retirements is far in excess of any prior EPA projections of plant shutdowns resulting from implementation of a Clean Air Act rulemaking. For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule. million tons, a reduction of 5.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. In January 2012, at a hearing of the California Air Resources Board I attended, the board considered updates to the Zero Emission Vehicle standards through model year 2025. Just look at the past 10+ years.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

Gas plants are also big industrial facilities that create air pollution for surrounding communities. Remember the gas plants in Mississauga and Oakville that were abruptly axed before the 2011 election, causing a massive scandal? The Aamjiwnaang First Nation is exposed to high levels of pollution from Sarnia’s Chemical Valley.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 20, 2012

Moreno On August 16, 2012, EPA published a new rule that revises the NESHAP Subpart HH standards for the oil and gas industry. The Final Rule wassigned on April 17, 2012, but publication in the Federal Register did not occur until August 16, 2012, making the rule effective on October 15, 2012. 16, 2012.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

million on the Shell Petrochemical Plant and associated pipeline for repeated air pollution and construction violations. Under the COA, Shell will pay a civil penalty of $4,935,023 – and as required by Act 57 of 2011, 25 percent of this penalty will be directed to local communities. Read more here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Faces Behind a Global Crisis: US Carbon Billionaires and the UN Climate Deadlock (International Forum on Globalization, December 2012). Koch’s Web of Influence by John Farrell (Center for Public Integrity, April 2011). Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine (Greenpeace, March 2010).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

After all, these agencies actions often have a direct impact on how well the public is protected from threats such as climate change impacts, natural disasters, unsafe food and drugs, transmissible disease, and air pollution.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

None of that means climate change isn’t, and won’t continue to be, a factor in global health, particularly if action to prevent it also reduces air pollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants. For example, the Green New Deal proposed by Rep.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

After the 2012 program review, RGGI lowered the cap by 45 percent between 2014 and 2020. [46]. AB 32 directed the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the state’s air pollution regulator, to implement a cap-and-trade program, which went into effect in 2013. [51].

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012. The rule will impose a one-time reporting requirement on persons who have manufactured PFAS in any year since January 1, 2011. OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012. EPA Takes Steps to Set PFAS Agenda.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

So starting in Act 13, passed in 2012, which I know lots of people are familiar with, that was really an act of deference to the oil and gas industry. He created the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission in 2011. Read more here.] Much of it was reduced by, reversed by the courts, but some of it remained.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

FWS developed the interpretation in a 2011 “Polar Bear Memo” that addressed the determination of threatened status for polar bears.) Montana Federal Court Agreed to Consider Keystone XL-Specific Documents and 2012 Biological Opinion in Challenge to Authorization Under Nationwide Permit. Williams , No. 19-cv-6855 (E.D.N.Y.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Of Environmental Professionals Award Scholarships To Isaac Nulton, Poppy Northing; Conference Starts Oct.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

6, 2012). [7]. and indeed the world, face a number of pressing environmental issues, most notably climate change, but other threats to the environment remain, including contaminated drinking water, air pollution, and ancient wastewater treatment systems. 6, 2012, 11:15 AM), [link]. [8]. 29, 2011), [link]. [30].

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