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.
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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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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