Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
As with too many other air pollutants, people of color face a disproportionate impact from sterilizers that pose greater cancer risks, co-located facilities, and those violating the Clean Air Act. To be clear: EPA is not proposing that these facilities cease operations or suddenly banning the use of EtO.
PA Environment Daily
MAY 18, 2022
million penalty and make extensive improvements at its steel production facility in Braddock, Pennsylvania, as part of a settlement covering longstanding air pollution violations. Steel is required to make numerous improvements in training, monitoring and work practices to increase compliance and timely response to air pollution.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to review—and update—its ethylene oxide emissions standards every eight years, but the last time it did so was in 2006. In 2016, it concluded that the gas is 60 times more toxic than its previous estimate. However, the EPA does caution that children may be more susceptible.
Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2024
percent of the MY 2016 fleet and were actually only 2 percent. Fourth, unlike the Clean Power Plan, this regulation is not just about greenhouse gases and climate change. It also applies to conventional air pollutants – the same pollutants that EPA has regulated since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970.
Acoel
JUNE 29, 2022
The proposed rule would provide de minimus air quality benefits in downwind areas with extremely high costs – estimated by EPA at $22 billion discounted 2016 dollars for the 2023-2042 period. The agency’s air quality modeling indicates that most areas would receive an ozone reduction of less than 0.1 ppb by 2025.
Corp Watch
MARCH 8, 2024
million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total settles U.S.
Corp Watch
JANUARY 17, 2024
million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total settles U.S.
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