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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. But this could only have a contributing factor.

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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

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.

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

The Energy Law Blog

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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Federal Courts Need to Allow the EPA to Clear the Air

Vermont Law

The Clean Air Act (CAA) regulates smog, setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and PM. NAAQS because of pollutants emitted from Midwestern power plants. In 2012, in. The EPA then assumed that each polluter in the NO. 2.5. ), mostly from fossil fuel consumption. EME Homer City Generation v.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule. The 2028 deadline proposed in the less stringent alternative is more realistic, and is consistent with timelines under other federal regulations. EPA MATS Regulatory Impact Analysis, 2011. Eugene M.

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

Corp Watch

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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