2020 Air Pollution Clean Air Act Regulations 
Legal Planet
JULY 25, 2022
Earlier this year, a team of economists published a retrospective paper on the Clean Air Act. Some of the findings are not surprises: stricter regulations actually do result in improved air quality. Many people identify that discipline with cost-benefit analysis and assume that economists are opposed to regulation.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 22, 2023
States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.
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MGKF Law
MARCH 27, 2023
EPA’s Clean Air Act (“CAA”) rulemakings directed at power plants are often the target of regulatory challenges in federal court. Read More » Tags: Air , Clean Air Act , EPA , HAPs , Hazardous Air Pollutants , Rulemaking 13956 (Mar. EPA, 576 U.S. 743 (2015).
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 6, 2022
EPA proposed changes to its MON rule in 2019, regulating toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants that produce solvents, plastics, and pesticides across the country. EPA plans to issue a Clean Air Act rulemaking for commercial sterilizers later this year and for other chemical facilities soon, as well.
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. People of color, people with low-incomes, and non-English speakers have for too long shouldered the weight of weak environmental regulation.
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
These permits are required under the federal Clean Air Act for any large or major source of air pollution. Covanta submitted its renewal application in December 2020; DEP deemed the application administratively complete in February 2021 and commenced a technical review.
Acoel
JULY 30, 2021
In the race to regulate PFAS substances, Congress’ actions have outpaced agency knowledge, leaving industry to wager on the outcome. The bill would require the EPA to designate PFAS and related PFOA compounds as hazardous substances under CERCLA within one year of the Act’s enactment. Posted on July 30, 2021 by Donald K.
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