Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

At a contentious board hearing on May 7, 2021, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) approved a first-in-the-nation rule to regulate trucking emissions from warehouses by a 9-4 vote. These state and federal standards require areas to reach certain ambient concentrations of ozone to be considered in “attainment.”

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In August 2015, the Obama administration announced the. Nevertheless, in December 2015, 195 countries adopted an. The fiscal conservative theory is that increased regulation to protect the environment will restrict the market and prevent capitalism from operating efficiently. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 3, 2015

regulate toxic emissions from power plants, rather than consider the cost when determining . regulate emissions. The Court has a history of groundbreaking decisions in the realm of environmental law and the lesser-publicized. Mercury and Air Toxics or MATS rule. ,” the regulation at issue in the. Massachusetts v.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S.

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2017 Clean Air Act Climate Change Renewable Energy 40

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Here’s the issue that the industry thinks the Supreme Court absolutely has to consider right this minute: “Whether the court should stay the Environmental Protection Agency’s Federal ‘Good Neighbor Plan’ for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards as it applies to reheat furnaces and boilers at iron and steel mills.”

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It is a practice and a philosophy, utilizing scientific tools and methods with applied ethics, and, where necessary, regulation and environmental law to limit the use of certain materials. Working to maintain biodiversity is conservation (regulate), making it illegal to build in a designated wilderness zone is preservation (eliminate).

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Conservation Law Natural Resources Fossil Fuels 52

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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Regulations Radiation Ozone Pollution Control 52

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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Regulations Ozone Pollution Control 2008 83

Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”). By Romany Webb. That is not always the case, however.

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Environment, Law, and History

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Here’s what EPA has to say on the subject — and remember, this is from the Trump EPA, which is no fan of regulation: Experience with the Clean Air Act since 1970 has shown that protecting public health and building the economy can go hand in hand. For more on the history of the Act, see here.

Clean Air Act 52

Clean Air Act Carbon Monoxide Ozone 2017 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) released a draft set of recommendations calling on the EPA to tighten its current standard for ground-level ozone pollution to protect public health. But will the EPA follow CASAC’s recommendations?

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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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Regulations Radiation Ozone Pollution Control 52

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. and non-U.S.

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2020 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Read more here ] “Every day, Pennsylvania residents’ health and safety are at unnecessary risk due to outdated laws.” “To If you do, then do the right thing and pass HB 170 into law. Are you on the side of the families who live in PA and have the right to clean air and water? “Do Read more here.

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Natural Gas Air Pollution Regulations Law 115

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” The case ultimately wound up in the US Supreme Court, which, in its controversial West Virginia v.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Sea Level Electricity 345

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EPA unveiled a proposed rule that would take the Navigable Waters Protection Rule off the books and reinstate long-standing regulations defining which streams and wetlands are subject to federal protection, a category known as “Waters of the U.S.,” or WOTUS. “In United States. 2225 ) this past summer.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

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2021 Endangered Species Act Ocean Climate Change 98

ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

This body will review the EPA’s scientific review of current ozone pollution standards. In 2019, the Trump administration opted to keep ozone pollution standards the same. Visit this page on ESA’s website for updates on opportunities from the Federal Register , including upcoming meetings and regulations open for public comment.

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