PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2022

Portable hydrogen sulfide monitors were deployed around the impacted areas to provide important data. -- Added a new section to the county’s Air Pollution Control Regulations, the Mon Valley Air Pollution Episode Rule. Posted: August 15, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

Joe has over 40 years of community organizing experience, and he served on the PA Department of Environmental Protection’s Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee and its Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, and the City of Philadelphia’s Air Pollution Control Board.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2022

A state cannot exempt itself from a federal law or regulation. It still applies whether EPA enforces it or the state does through its federally-approved pollution control programs. A state cannot exempt itself from a federal law or regulation. Read more here. Note: BTW, the price at the pump didn’t go to zero.]

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

China also required stricter pre-shipment inspections to enforce existing laws, such as the import ban on electronic waste (e-waste). However, most of the world’s recycling is exported to lower-income countries, where recycling is cheaper to process due to weak law enforcement and informal sector recycling with no pollution controls.

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Renewable + Law

MARCH 18, 2021

First, FERC reversed its Broadview Solar decision issued in September 2020, which prior decision overturned decades of precedent related to the method for determining the net output of qualifying facilities under PURPA.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

c); CEQA Guidelines, 15250, 15251), and under special provisions of CEQA that apply specifically to regulations CARB promulgates to set performance standards and to require the installation of pollution control equipment[.] On February 13, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. 93130 et seq). Citation omitted.)

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2020, sources in both the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) NOX annual program and the A(cid) R(ain) P(rogram) together emitted 0.78 Greater compliance flexibility, and smaller adverse job impacts, could be achieved by an incremental approach to pollution control upgrades. million tons, a reduction of 5.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Just a year later, however, the industry encountered a potentially major obstacle: A study conducted by the government’s National Air Pollution Control Administration found a link between outdoor NO2 exposure and childhood respiratory problems. Likewise, they have been busy shoring up their markets.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. Will the law help transit agencies deal with their looming budget crises? Transit agencies in Washington, D.C.,

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The plan — importing millions of liters of drinking water from Lake Simcoe to York Region, and exporting the area’s wastewater to treatment facilities on Lake Ontario — is seen as both environmentally risky, and in breach of international law. Moreover, Ontario’s wastewater management system would be put to the test.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

That theme continues throughout, from the Prevention of Significant Deterioration program , which helps protect attainment areas from pollution caused by new sources, to ongoing monitoring requirements for attainment areas. Thus, the CAA sets a floor for regulation of air pollution, not a ceiling.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The two professors, David Nixon and John Zavodni, were not merely interested in the bounty provision of the law (a common feature of legislation in the late 19th century,) but they wanted to make a point: the rivers were a dump. Nobody at the Corps of Engineers had heard of the law, let alone a permit program to enforce it.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

While TRPA had “jurisdiction by law” in that it exercises authority over resources affected by the project, it was not a responsible agency. Per the Court: “CEQA…does not require the lead agency to accept and utilize the threshold or significance standards which the jurisdiction-by-law agency used to determine the impact was significant.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2021

Million For PFAS Cancer Study WHYY: What’s In The Water? 27-28; Moraine State Park Regatta Aug. 27-28; Moraine State Park Regatta Aug.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

The new laws compiled below add to that already very green environmental regulatory scheme. Savvy players in the environmental industrial complex and associated industries will find business opportunities to lead and profit in environmental matters, including opportunities advantaged by these newly enacted laws. Drinking Water.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

James, a faith-based grassroots organization fighting to reduce pollution in the community, and lawyers at Earthjustice, a national nonprofit environmental law organization, and other community groups led the years long battle. billion complex in St. USA: How many burial sites are on the land where Formosa Plastics plans to build?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Capitol -- WITF: These Republicans Did A Deep Dive Into 2020 Election Lawsuits, Including In PA; Woefully Deficient Filings Caused Most Of Them To Fail -- Post-Gazette: Ex-President Said He Would Pardon And Issue A Government Apology To Those Who Assaulted U.S. Of Revenue Reports August State Tax Collections 1.1%

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It’s been building and building,” said Rob Michaels, an attorney for the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), a Chicago-based legal group, who is working to limit CAFO manure discharges in Ohio and Michigan. CAFOs, though, are the only industrial polluting facilities not required to treat their wastes. As a legal issue.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court found that, as pled, the complaint was “premised solely on state law” and that City of New York v. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Obviously they couldn’t just be underpaid public servants doing their best to implement the law.) Crippling air pollution control. Given its passion for fossil fuels, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Project 2025 takes a dim view of pollution control. 424-425] and toxic air pollution [427]. #6. 402-404] #5.

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Ohio Environmental Law

MAY 8, 2020

On January 23, 2020, the Trump Administration released the final version of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR), which defines which waters and wetlands are protected under the Clean Water Act. 22,250, 22,251-22,252 (April 21, 2020). Does Ohio law protect wetlands and waters that are not federally protected?

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

World leaders have made several major commitments at the meeting to date: Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. Trump administration removed gray wolves from the endangered species list in November 2020. Half of the top 30 methane emitters have signed on to this pledge.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

However, diplomats failed to agree about how to fulfill a decade-old pledge that was set to begin in 2020 to provide $100 billion in climate finance to help developing counties with climate adaptation and mitigation each year. Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2020, the Trump Administration promulgated a new rule for model years 2021 through 2026 that reduced the required emissions reduction to only 1.5% The post Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards appeared first on Climate Law Blog. EPA , 142 S.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Congress has not passed appropriations bills since December 2020. States Win Bid to Freeze Biden’s Interim Social Cost of Carbon – Bloomberg Law. EPA and NOAA – Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Proposal To Find That Louisiana Has Satisfied All Conditions of Approval Placed on Its Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

EPA Revised Mercury Inventory Reporting Rule in Response to 2020 Second Circuit Decision. In addition, the infrastructure law provides $100 million for the Pollution Prevention Act grants to states for programs to promote businesses’ use of source reduction techniques. N:Asbestos Disease Awareness Org. Regan, No.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The cities also have filed a motion to amend their complaints to withdraw federal common law public nuisance claims that they added after the district court denied remand.

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