Boeing Cleans Up Its Act: Will Pay $750,000 and Implement Overdue Improvements to Tukwila Facility
Corp Watch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
The settlement requires Boeing
FRESH, July 12, 2022: Michigan Agency Launches Mercury Monitoring Program
Circle of Blue
JULY 12, 2022
The Ohio EPA spars with federal agencies over pollution control in Lake Erie. In 2020 for the Great Lakes News Collaborative, Great Lakes Now investigated how large-scale dairy and animal operations threaten the waters. A Michigan agency announces a new program to monitor mercury contamination. Looking Ahead. SHIPPING: The U.S.
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Ask a Scientist: UCS Transportation Program Adds Equitable Mobility to its Portfolio
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. Cars and trucks are a lot cleaner than when I was growing up. Transit agencies in Washington, D.C.,
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Allegheny County Health Dept. Releases Air Quality Annual Review Covering 2021
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. Click Here for a copy of the report.
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Desperate Tampering Industry Trying to Pass RPM Act to Continue Polluting
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
A couple years ago , I detailed how an industry designed to increase and sell devices tampering with pollution controls was trying to use the extremely small slice of its business targeted at racing as a Trojan horse to hinder EPA enforcement and let loose a bevy of tampering devices on the American public. Jack Reed ( March 2020 ).
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Solar Power Had a Big Day at FERC
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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Clean Air Council Celebrates Joseph Minott's 40 Year Commitment To Leading The Council, And To The Environment
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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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Read more here. -- FY 2020-21 $48.8 . -- FY 2019-20 transferred several programs formerly funded by the General Fund are now being paid for by the Environmental Stewardship (Growing Greener) Fund: $2.5
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Minnesota Can Do More to Protect People from Ethylene Oxide Emissions
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 1, 2023
If you live in Minnesota, you can help make sure the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) writes a comment letter supporting adequate protection in the EPA’s upcoming update to its rules covering emissions of ethylene oxide at commercial sterilizer facilities.
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Guest Essay: DEP Should Invest $33.6 Million In New Federal Funding Wisely To Plug Conventional Oil & Gas Wells And Not Reward The Industry For Bad Behavior
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Require Use Of Latest Technology Most importantly, DEP should restrict this funding to gas companies that use the most up-to-date pollution control technologies at their functioning gas wells and compressor stations, such as those that will be required in EPA’s forthcoming rules.
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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil
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. Total to pay $2.9
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Prohibitions on Certain HFCs in Refrigeration, Chillers, Aerosol Propellants and Foam End-Uses
Capaccio
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
On December 20, 2020, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) promulgated amendment 310 CMR 7.76 under the Air Pollution Control regulations 310 CMR 7.00.
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State Air Regulations Can Go Above and Beyond National StandardsÂ
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. All states must submit SIPs, regardless of attainment status.
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Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa
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. Total to pay $2.9
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Court orders 42 Ugandan families evicted to make way for oil project
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. Total to pay $2.9
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Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa
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. Total to pay $2.9
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Climate groups call for funding withdrawal of TotalEnergies’ Mozambique project
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. Total to pay $2.9
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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals
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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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The town has two wells, one of which began exceeding the federal nitrate standard in 2020. Tarr worked in other small towns in Nebraska before taking the Plainview job in August 2020. But the fact that the facility exists, Corrigan said, is an indictment of the state’s pollution-control measures. “It’s
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South Africa gives go-ahead for TotalEnergies to drill offshore
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. Total to pay $2.9
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Green groups target TotalEnergies over Tanzania, Uganda projects
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. Total to pay $2.9
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September 5 PA Environment Digest Now Available
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Million Penalty On PA Company For Selling Auto Parts That Avoid Vehicle Pollution Controls Public Participation Opportunities/Calendar Of Events Grants & Awards PA Bulletin - Public Notices Stories Invited - About PA Environment Digest Supporting Member PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers; PA Outdoor Writers Assn.;
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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors
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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The Essential - PA Environment Digest 7.5.21
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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In Memoriam: Walt Pomeroy, Environmental, Wildlife & Wilderness Advocate
PA Environment Daily
MAY 30, 2022
CBS reported, and not all its foundries had installed air pollution control equipment. But Pomeroy told reporter Hughes Rudd that he had arranged meetings with the local polluters to promote dialogue. “We Albion called itself “Manufacturing City U.S.A.,” He coached 175 scouts to their Eagle rank.
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Guest Essay: Before The Federal Clean Water Act, There Was The Rivers And Harbors Act Of 1899 To Help Clean-Up Pittsburgh’s 3 Rivers
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 10, 2022
The Circuit Court reversed in part, but the whole issue was mooted by the passage in mid-October of 1972 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 0f 1972. He died in 2020. The rest of us, the body politic, if you will, must give permission and can impose conditions. Posted: October 10, 2022] PA Environment Digest
Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule
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 In sum, EPA’s proposal for reducing interstate ozone transport adopts unrealistic deadlines and overly-aggressive emission control retrofit mandates. million tons, a reduction of 5.1
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Third District Addresses Significant CEQA Issues In Mixed Decision On Placer County’s EIR For Specific Plan/Rezoning Allowing Development of Martis Valley Timberlands
CEQA Developments
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
The FEIR reviewed other methods suggested by Newhall Ranch for determining the significance of GHG impacts, and modified and deleted portions of the DEIR’s GHG analysis, but ultimately did not change the DEIR’s significant-and-unavoidable impact conclusion, and the County therefore determined recirculation was not required.
Chesapeake Bay Program: Unusual Weather Conditions Continue To Impact Chesapeake Bay Water Quality
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 28, 2021
According to these computer simulations, pollution controls put into place between 2009 and 2020 are estimated to have lowered overall nitrogen by 13 percent, overall phosphorus by 14 percent and sediment by 4 percent. Photo: Conowingo Dam after a significant rain event.)
Montrose Environmental Group Receives 2019 EBJ Business Achievement Award
Montrose
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
IRVINE, CA (September 4, 2020) —Environmental Business Journal®* (EBJ), a business research publication which provides high value strategic business intelligence to the environmental industry*, has honored Montrose Environmental Group (Montrose) with an award for Business Achievement in Mergers & Acquisitions in 2019. “In
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FRESH, February 7, 2023: Development Planned for Greater Toronto Would Require a Controversial Water Shake-up
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
By 2051, the Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant would receive between 20 million and 40 million more liters of wastewater per day, which the facility would clean and dump into Lake Ontario. Moreover, Ontario’s wastewater management system would be put to the test.
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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison
Corp Watch
JANUARY 17, 2024
Army Corps of Engineers demanding the project’s federal permit be revoked due to environmental justice, wetlands destruction and pollution concerns. Wesley Muller | Louisiana Illuminator | July 20, 2020 Formosa plans to build on former sugarcane plantations near the Mississippi River, and Rise St. USA: Formosa Plastics Corp.,
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National Environmental Justice Art Campaign - We Refuse To Die - Launching In Pittsburgh Area
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
On Christmas Eve of that year, a catastrophic fire at the plant knocked out its pollution controls, resulting in 100 consecutive days of dangerous air. She buried her parents, her older brother, older sister, and younger brother between 2011 and 2020. Melanie came to environmental justice after experiencing incredible loss.
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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021
Greenbuilding Law
APRIL 25, 2021
As such, the bill retroactively allows qualified conservation that was completed in a forest mitigation bank on or before December 31, 2020, to be used, under both State and local forest conservation programs. A person exercising this right to intervene must act in accordance with applicable practices, procedures, and laws in the State.
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China’s Waste Ban Exposes Missing Links in Recycling
Vermont Law
DECEMBER 19, 2018
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. for urban household waste by 2020. For example, the cost of recycling a computer monitor is ten times cheaper in China.
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Gov. Shapiro, CNX Natural Gas Company Sign Statement Of Mutual Interests To Monitor Air Emissions At Drill Sites, Extend Safety Setbacks While Data Is Being Collected; DEP To Move Ahead With Some Reg Changes
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
These actions, which address several recommendations of the 43rd Statewide Investigating Grand Jury released in 2020. 2020 Grand Jury Report Gov. The company has also been criminally charged with violations of the Air Pollution Control Act in Washington County. Read more here. CNX committed crimes in our county.
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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science
Corp Watch
JUNE 7, 2023
USA: Coca-Cola plant employees protest, demanding better health care agreement in midst of pandemic Roxanne Elias | WTOL 11 | November 3, 2020 Workers at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in north Toledo are on strike, already planning for the days ahead after they walked off the job just after midnight Sunday.
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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Farmers who don’t agree to adopt the new pollution-control measures would lose the insurance subsidy. . Such requirements could be attached to a farmer’s access to crop insurance and the subsidies available to pay for it. We have hotspots in the watershed. South central Pennsylvania. The eastern shore of Maryland and Delaware.
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Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule and Its Impact on Ohio
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). What action was taken to define the scope of federal jurisdiction? underground waters (i.e.,
Republican Senators Introduce Bill To Deregulate Oil & Gas Industry, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Open State Forests To Drilling, Withdrawn From RGGI
PA Environment Daily
MAY 5, 2022
It still applies whether EPA enforces it or the state does through its federally-approved pollution control programs. 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.
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2 Republican Senators Lay Out Agenda For Deregulating Oil & Gas Industry, Power Plants In PA
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 11, 2022
Just because you have an abundant supply of something, doesn’t mean you control demand or the price. A good illustration of that is the oil price collapse in 2020 due to COVID when the price of crude oil dropped below zero for a time. A state cannot exempt itself from a federal law or regulation. Read more here.
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The Chemical Compound—December 2021
Arnold Porter
DECEMBER 3, 2021
EPA Revised Mercury Inventory Reporting Rule in Response to 2020 Second Circuit Decision. EPA Revised Mercury Inventory Reporting Rule in Response to 2020 Second Circuit Decision. N: Memorandum from Director, Pollution Control & Clean Up Directorate, EPA Office of Inspector Gen., N:Asbestos Disease Awareness Org.
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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
The court then found that BLM’s exclusion of foreign emissions in its alternatives analysis was arbitrary and capricious because its rationale “suffers from the same flaws the Ninth Circuit identified” in a December 2020 decision involving offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea. CDV-2020-307 (Mont. State , No.
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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us
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. Since May 2018, 15 of these state and regional front groups spent $3.6
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