Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2022
But this seemingly simple calculation turns out to be riddled with uncertainties, particularly when you’re talking about regulating the energy industry. Those uncertainties need more attention in designing regulations. That’s because figuring out what the regulation actually cost is tricky.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
A multi-decade legal history, including four Supreme Court decisions, has led to unimpeachable clarity on this one point: EPA has a statutory obligation to regulate carbon emissions from power plants under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. So what follows from that obligation? Will EPA use CCS or other means as the BSER?
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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.
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.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
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.
Vermont Law
JULY 28, 2014
Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and economic infrastructure. Deforestation, air and water pollution, and lack of sanitation systems have led to public health problems and resource scarcity.
CEQA Developments
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Following release of an October 2015 draft and May 2016 final EIR, the County’s Planning Commission recommended denial, but the Board of Supervisors thereafter approved the specific plan, and the immediate rezoning of the 662-acre portion of the West Parcel out of the TPZ, by 4-1 vote. California Department of Fish and Wildlife (2015) 62 Cal.4th
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