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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. By 2012 about half of 1980 employment had already been lost, nearly all in Appalachia.

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EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Will Have A Dramatic Impact on Texas and Louisiana

The Energy Law Blog

By: Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 8, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching Clean Air Act rule intended to address the interstate transport of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from upwind to downwind states. See 76 Fed. 48208 (Aug. See David E.

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

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.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

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. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9

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Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa

Corp Watch

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. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9

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Court orders 42 Ugandan families evicted to make way for oil project

Corp Watch

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. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9

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Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa

Corp Watch

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. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9

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