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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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

All three landfills are operated by the County subject to oversight and permits by the County Department of Environmental Health Services, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District. County of Alameda (2012) 54 Cal.4th

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Recognizing the environmental and public health risks posed by methane, in January 2015, the Obama administration set a goal of reducing emissions from the oil and gas industry by 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025. That request was withdrawn by the Trump administration in March 2017.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison Radio Free Asia PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:44 Thursday, January 11, 2024 Read more Nguyen Van Hoa was arrested in 2017 following massive demonstrations against a Taiwan-owned steel plant. By RFA Vietnamese 2024.01.11 Organizations such as EarthJustice and Rise St.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2017

of the Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to address this through emissions standards for air pollution from cars and trucks. The EPA had stated in its 2017 mid-year review that the auto industry was on track to meet the 2022-2025 standards. Section 202. Fuel Efficiency Standards Trumped?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2018, the state Department of Health and DEP, with assistance from the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, released a public health evaluation of long-term air sampling data in the vicinity of natural gas operations in Washington County. Read more here. Read more here.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

It’s due to a combination of factors, including tremendous demand for clean energy from states, utilities and consumers; federal regulations to reduce toxic air pollutants; and—most important—the simple fact that renewables and natural gas are now the cheapest options to meet our electricity needs. Our work is having a major impact.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The report looked at environmental compliance in the industry between 2017 through 2021. Overview Of Non-Compliance DEP reports between 2017 through 2021, the agency did 63,026 inspections of wells belonging to 1,512 conventional oil and gas well owners operating 34,812 wells.

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Breezometer

JULY 27, 2021

Wildfires create a toxic mix of pollution that appears as smoke and ash and pollutes the air we breathe, as well as soil and water. That’s what this study found out - it’s air pollution - so the fire smoke that forms in a wildfire. Ronit, do you know how fire creates its own lightning?

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The World Health Organization reports that nearly 4 million premature deaths per year are “attributable to household air pollution from inefficient cooking practices.” They experience greater exposure to household air pollution since they are typically responsible for household chores, and spend multiple hours per day collecting fuel.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Economic Benefits So since 2012, companies drilling for gas in the Marcellus [Shale] are paying a per well fee that can compensate state and local communities for the burdens on public services and the environment, hopefully. In Pennsylvania there was also this big increase in local employment in oil and gas sector from 2007 to 2012.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In October 2017, RGGI, Inc. 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]. As of 2017, some $3.4

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012. ” The Fifth Circuit also found that it had jurisdiction to review the October 2017 rule because the regulation was a “consumer product safety rule” subject to the Consumer Product Safety Act’s (CPSA’s) procedure for judicial review.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Montana Federal Court Agreed to Consider Keystone XL-Specific Documents and 2012 Biological Opinion in Challenge to Authorization Under Nationwide Permit. The court noted that the administrative record currently documented the Corps’ decision to reissue NWP 12 in 2017. Williams , No. 19-cv-6855 (E.D.N.Y.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

6, 2012). [7]. as a pollutant at all to the Clean Power Plan, which has no chance of clemency before its swift execution at some point in 2017. [14]. 6, 2012, 11:15 AM), [link]. [8]. manufacturing non-competitive.” (#(@realDonaldTrump, Nov. and “This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING b t has got to stop. 2, 2014). [8].

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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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