PA Environment Daily
APRIL 26, 2024
The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 27 PA Bulletin inviting public comments on a proposed declaration of an Exceptional Air Quality Event due to 2023 wildfires from Canada and New Jersey causing elevated levels of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds impacting ozone pollution in Pennsylvania.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 14, 2023
But, as you noted, despite all the groundwork leading up to the 2015 rule, the Clean Power Plan was immediately challenged, and in 2016—before it went into effect—the Supreme Court stayed the rule. It sets a framework for states and utilities across the country to fully reckon with their power plants’ carbon emissions. billion to $5.9
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Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
However, leaks which allow gasses to escape can mitigate reductions or result in overall increases in emissions relative to alternate storage methods, and generating energy via anaerobic digesters can emit pollutants like nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide, among others. 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al.,
Vermont Law
APRIL 8, 2022
Indeed, the EPA, under the Obama administration, in 2016, completed Quad Oa, also known as the "New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for [volatile organic compounds] VOC[s] and methane emissions from the oil and gas sector," which is a substantial source of methane emissions. (7) Turner, Jr.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 6, 2022
Air Pollution Air pollutants such as carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are released from various stages of shale gas development. NOx and VOCs mix in the presence of sunlight to form ground level ozone (smog).
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 30, 2023
There have been no comprehensive changes in Oil and Gas Program regulations covering unconventional shale gas development in seven years-- since 2016-- and no comprehensive update in conventional oil and gas industry regulations in 36 years-- since 1987. Read more here.
Clean Energy Law
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
The 2016 AQMP analyzes existing and potential regulatory control options and seeks to achieve multiple goals in partnership with other entities promoting reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs) and toxic risk, as well as efficiencies in energy use, transportation, and goods movement. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.
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