PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2022

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet on June 14 to vote on a revised final regulation reducing volatile organic compounds and methane emissions from unconventional (shale gas) wells and facilities. In the executive summary of the revised regulation applying to only unconventional shale gas facilities DEP maintains “.Act

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

On June 14, the Environmental Quality Board voted 15 to 3, with one abstention, to adopt Part I of a revised final regulation reducing volatile organic compounds and methane emissions from just unconventional (shale gas) wells and facilities. Representatives of Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) and John St.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The case involves a group of challenges to EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing stationary sources under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a monumental piece of environmental and public health legislation.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Herzog (former Emmett/Frankel Fellow at UCLA School of Law 2012-2016) and Sean H. When EPA strengthened the national ozone standard in 2015 based upon updated scientific understanding of ozone’s health harms, it triggered States’ obligation to develop Good Neighbor plans. The Rule is already working to reduce dangerous smog.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

In 2015, the EPA issued the Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, which at the time were the largest source of heat-trapping emissions in the country. First, the court did not question the EPA’s authority to regulate power plant carbon emissions. EPA Supreme Court decision in 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2022

On July 21, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted unanimously 5 to 0 to approve Part I of final Environmental Quality Board regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane emissions from unconventional (shale gas) wells and facilities. The Preamble to the revised rulemaking says “.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990. The proposed rule would provide de minimus air quality benefits in downwind areas with extremely high costs – estimated by EPA at $22 billion discounted 2016 dollars for the 2023-2042 period. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. ppb by 2025.

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