Vorys Law
JANUARY 26, 2021
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.
Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2022
Second, the agency needs information about the costs of facility-by-facility changes, such as shifts in how often facilities are used, their fuel consumption, and how pollution controls were actually operated. For example, natural gas production went up by around 50% from 2011-2015, displacing a lot of coal-fired generation.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
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.
Greenbuilding Law
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Rare earth metals are not only used in automobile pollution control devices (and not just in the U.S. The National Insurance Crime Bureau, the public source for vehicle theft data reported to insurance companies, stopped tracking catalytic converter thefts in 2015. The pollution control devices have been required in the U.S.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
million cut beginning in FY 2010-11; -- FY 2014-15 budget for the State System of Higher Education zeroes out funding again for the PA Center for Environmental Education ($368,000) and McKeever Environmental Center ($213,000); -- FY 2014-15 budget cuts $500,000 for Delaware River Basin Commission; -- FY 2015-16 transfer of $31.9
Acoel
JUNE 29, 2022
It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990. 16 of 22 counties) of the 2015 Base Case nonattainment counties are projected to be reduced by 1 ppb or more as a result of CAIR. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. Ozone concentrations in over 70 percent (i.e., EPA CAIR Modeling Analysis, March 2005.
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