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Fifth District Holds Issue Exhaustion Not Required Where Agency Gave No Notice of Intent To Rely On CEQA Exemption Prior to Hearing, And Existing Facilities Categorical Exemption Does Not Apply to Unlined Landfills As A Matter of Law

CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. The proposed amendments relied on the 1999 MNDs and 2012 addendum, with no additional CEQA review or mitigation deemed necessary by the County. or if the public agency failed to give the notice required by law.”

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Environmental Quality Board Tables Vote On Accepting Petition For Study To Increase Setbacks From Shale Gas Wells Until Last Minute Comments Can Be Reviewed

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Since 2012, 42 independent peer-reviewed studies show fracking at current setback distances has caused dangerous impacts to health and the environment due to releases of benzene and other harmful fracking pollutants. Industries claim that this Board lacks the authority to act on this petition is not supported by these laws.

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In Memoriam: Former Sen. Mary Jo White, Republican Chair Of The Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

She also served on the Wild Resource Conservation Fund, the Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee, the Environmental Quality Board, and the PA Commission on Sentencing. She retired from the state Senate in 2012. For the 2001-2002 Legislative Session, Sen.

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

The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Specifically, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) requires 27 states, including Louisiana and Texas, to make dramatic cuts in power plant emissions. Emissions reductions will take effect quickly, starting January 1, 2012 for SO2 and annual NOx reductions, and May 1, 2012 for ozone season (May-September) NOx reductions.

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Fifth Circuit Vacates EPA’s Disapproval of the Texas Flexible Permits Program

The Energy Law

AUGUST 21, 2012

Moreno On August 13, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) disapproval of revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) dealing with the state’s Flexible Permits program. 13, 2012) ( quoting in part from 42 U.S.C. State of Texas v. 7410(a)(1).

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule. Greater compliance flexibility, and smaller adverse job impacts, could be achieved by an incremental approach to pollution control upgrades. EPA MATS Regulatory Impact Analysis, 2011.

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Federal Courts Need to Allow the EPA to Clear the Air

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The EPA’s cap-and-trade program to control smog in the Central and Eastern United States is lawful and wise, and the Supreme Court should overturn the D.C. In 2012, in. Circuit struck down the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), which was the EPA’s latest attempt to regulate smog in the Central and Eastern United States.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75 SEC Charges Total S.A.

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

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75 SEC Charges Total S.A.

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

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

Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75 SEC Charges Total S.A.

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

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

Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75 SEC Charges Total S.A.

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

Climate groups call for funding withdrawal of TotalEnergies’ Mozambique project

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75 SEC Charges Total S.A.

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South Africa gives go-ahead for TotalEnergies to drill offshore

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75 SEC Charges Total S.A.

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

Green groups target TotalEnergies over Tanzania, Uganda projects

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75 SEC Charges Total S.A.

2013

2013 2007 Fossil Fuels Government

US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012). Carreno-Coll signed a judgment approving the $25 million settlement and consent decree between the parties over allegations that the companies polluted Puerto Rico’s drinking water with gasoline additives. HarperCollins, 1991). by Ida Tarbell (1904).

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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012). Carreno-Coll signed a judgment approving the $25 million settlement and consent decree between the parties over allegations that the companies polluted Puerto Rico’s drinking water with gasoline additives. HarperCollins, 1991). by Ida Tarbell (1904).

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

The Obama Administration set the first vehicle GHG emissions standards in 2010 for vehicles manufactured in model years 2012 through 2016, and set revised standards in 2012 for model years 2017 through 2025. The post Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards appeared first on Climate Law Blog.

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Ask a Scientist: Top Takeaways from the New EPA Carbon Pollution Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

The proposed standards are the most recent in a series of administration policies to address the climate crisis, including new EPA requirements for vehicle tailpipe pollution and methane leaks from oil and gas facilities. Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2022, installed wind and solar power more than tripled , according to American Clean Power.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

An analysis of Army Corps of Engineers data conducted by the Southern Environmental Law Center found that 91 percent of streams and wetlands adjudicated under the Trump definition fell outside of federal regulations. But when the Trump administration took office, it repealed that rule and issued its own, far narrower definition. 3, 2021.

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The Chemical Compound—December 2021

Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

EPA inspectors found that the two companies failed to submit timely quadrennial reports regarding their imports of five chemical substances between 2012 and 2015 under the 2016 CDR Rule. N: Memorandum from Director, Pollution Control & Clean Up Directorate, EPA Office of Inspector Gen., EPA, Pay $117,000 in Fines (Oct.

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