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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990. The agency’s air quality modeling indicates that most areas would receive an ozone reduction of less than 0.1 enjoyed ozone reductions of 3 to 5 ppb or more. Ozone concentrations in over 70 percent (i.e., ppb by 2025. EPA estimated that: .

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Ohio EPA Division of Air Pollution Control hosts Program Advisory Group Meeting

Vorys Law

On January 20, 2021, the Ohio EPA’s Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC) hosted a “Program Advisory Group” (PAG) meeting via Microsoft Teams to inform interested stakeholders of recent and upcoming DAPC activities. This post focuses on Ohio EPA’s anticipated regulatory changes to address non-attainment of the 2015 Ozone NAAQS.

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EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Are Critical—and Complex. Here’s What to Know, and What to Watch.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Section 111 employs a two-phase process where, once EPA moves to regulate pollution from a new source—here, power plants—(111(b)), it is then required to regulate that pollution from existing sources, too (111(d)). As a result, EPA will be updating standards for new plants and fully developing standards for existing plants.

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The Problems with the SCOTUS ‘Good Neighbor’ Arguments

Legal Planet

EPA has been implementing the Good Neighbor Provision since the 1990s to successfully reduce significant contributions from power plants (and sometimes other types of big industrial sources) to ozone pollution (also called smog) in downwind States. EPA’s latest Rule finalizes federal plan requirements for 23 upwind States.

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EQB Meets June 14 On Revised Final Regulation Reducing Methane Emissions From Just Unconventional (Shale Gas) Wells, Facilities; Working On Conventional Reg.

PA Environment Daily

Since this final-form rulemaking is being promulgated under the APCA [state Air Pollution Control Act] in Title 35, the requirements of Act 52 do not apply. Even so, the Board amended this final-form rulemaking to clarify that the control measures are only applicable to unconventional sources of VOC emissions.”

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EQB Adopts Part I Of Final Regulation Reducing Oil & Gas VOC/Methane Emissions; DEP Documents 80% Of Methane Emissions Come From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities

PA Environment Daily

Since this final-form rulemaking is being promulgated under the APCA [state Air Pollution Control Act] in Title 35, the requirements of Act 52 do not apply. Even so, the Board amended this final-form rulemaking to clarify that the control measures are only applicable to unconventional sources of VOC emissions.”

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IRRC Unanimously Approves Part I Of Final Reg. Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Unconventional Shale Gas Facilities; DEP Moves To Avoid Federal Highway Funding Sanctions

PA Environment Daily

the Department will develop a separate rulemaking for the RACT requirements for sources of VOC emissions installed at conventional well sites” since the regulations covering oil and gas facilities are being promulgated to attain both the federal 2008 and 2015 ozone standard. The Preamble to the revised rulemaking says “.