PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2024

EPA has three previous settlements with PES from 2020, one regarding CAA Renewable Fuel Standards, one for compliance issues related to a prior CAA Consent Decree, and the other for recovery of EPA costs related to the refinery’s explosion and fire under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.

2019

Breezometer

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Air pollution impacts every aspect of our lives, especially health. Companies across all industries now seek to integrate environmental intelligence into their offerings and provide actionable insights to improve daily health choices. government to provide the official figures on premature deaths caused by air pollution.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The National Aeronautics and Atmospheric Administration offered to fly an airplane equipped with the world’s most sophisticated air samplers over Houston to monitor air pollution. Meanwhile, residents and rescue crews continued to feel sick, despite assurances from officials that the air pollution posed no health threat.

Government

Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act added reporting requirements of PFAS releases for certain industries. EPA is developing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to designate PFOA and PFOS as Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) “hazardous substances” for Spring 2022.

Regulations

Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

Preliminary 2020 TRI Dataset Shows “Seemingly Limited” Scope for PFAS Reporting. EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 requires EPA to promulgate this rule by January 1, 2023. The House bill ( H.R.

2021

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The plaintiffs argued that there was “no longer a viable dispute” that the organization lacked standing because the individual member had become pregnant in or around December 2020 and feared “the very sort of neurodevelopmental harm that was the focus of Plaintiffs’ trial evidence.” Wheeler, 2020 U.S.

2021