PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency and state Department of Environmental Protection have acted to begin cleaning up 190 years of pollution on the site through the federal Superfund Program [ Read more here ] and the state Hazardous Sites Cleanup Program [ Read more here ] using taxpayer money. In November 2022, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. The Supreme Court clipped the agency’s wings in its 2022 West Virginia v. EPA decision, but it did not ground EPA.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 amended the Clean Air Act to create the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a new program which will deploy $27 billion in competitive grants to mobilize financing for clean energy and climate projects that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, especially in disadvantaged communities.

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National Law Center

AUGUST 11, 2022

The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: August 11, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. .

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2022

They date from September 1978–when Congress passed an “act to establish a comprehensive and coordinated national climate policy and program”–to the Inflation Reduction Act of August 2022. Environmental Protection Agency highlighted the issue of Congressional authorization for administrative action on climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2022

The EPA is proposing a new Clean Air Act rule to sharply reduce methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry – including, for the first time, reductions from existing sources nationwide. Posted: March 25, 2022] PA Environment Digest Karen has been with EPA for 11 years.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Sam Gutter. For much of that time, most of the environmental bar viewed Title II of the Clean Air Act as something that took up space between Titles I and III and had something to do with cars. I’ve been engaged in issues involving mobile sources for more than 40 years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The EPA also plans to issue a rule by the end of 2022 with strengthened emissions requirements for approximately 100 commercial sterilizer facilities 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.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection notified the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County it will no longer be able to operate under an Air Quality Construction permit and must submit an application for a full Title V Air Quality Permit within 120 days. 12,671,044.75

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MGKF Law

JUNE 30, 2022

S. _ (2022). The major questions doctrine requires that a federal agency have “clear congressional authorization” when acting on issues of great “economic and political significance.” citing Utility Air Regulatory Group v. West Virginia v. EPA 597 U. ” Id. EPA , 573 U.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

I had a small glimpse into this work in early 2022 when his office reached out to me after reading a report I co-authored on the risk of chemical spills from storage tanks in Virginia. Among its provisions, the legislation will: Require consideration of cumulative impacts in permitting decisions under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 31, 2023

This is a necessary step in the right direction; strong power plant carbon pollution standards can complement recently passed clean energy incentives to help facilitate the shift to a cleaned-up power sector, and are required of EPA by the Clean Air Act.

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MGKF Law

JULY 6, 2023

In April 2022, the Director of EPA’s Fuel Compliance Center responded to Sinclair’s email, stating, in relevant part, that “the 2018 RINs [would] not be returned… ” Sinclair filed the petition for review of EPA’s April 2022 email.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The California Attorney General, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), and a group of environmental NGOs intervened in defense of Rule 2305. In October and November 2022, CTA and A4A filed motions for summary judgment and the District and defendant-intervenors filed oppositions in December 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act. Supreme Court released its decision on West Virginia V. EPA, a crucial case concerning the authority of the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

That weekend of horrific air quality killed 20 people and sickened thousands more, but it also galvanized residents to take environmental action - a movement that culminated in the creation of the state Air Pollution Control Act and later the federal Clean Air Act. Click Here to register for this free event.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Under the federal Clean Air Act, plaintiffs must send notices of intent to sue at least 60 days before filing a complaint in federal court. DEP must act quickly to stop Shell’s ongoing violations of pollution limits that are meant to protect public health” said Sarah Kula, attorney for the Environmental Integrity Project.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Seth Jaffe. The Clean Water Act – It’s routine for EPA to take more than 10 years to act on NPDES permit renewals. The Clean Air Act – The Supreme Court has ruled that it does not provide authority for EPA to address the defining issue of our time.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

On November 15, 2022, Erie Coke Corporation, along with the plant superintendent, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on among other charges, violation of the Clean Air Act. Such hazardous air pollutants were released directly into the air to avoid the plant’s environmental monitoring system.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1966, vehicles were responsible for nearly 60 percent of the 146 million tons of pollutants discharged into the air across the United States. At the end of 2022, there were more than 283 million. The fact is there are a lot more cars on the road than when you were a kid. In 1960, there were 61.6 That’s not healthy.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Dairy digesters feature prominently in CARB’s 2022 Scoping Plan, California’s sector-by-sector roadmap toward carbon neutrality, as a significant source of emissions reductions. In the United States, we already have a model for regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

The discussion of technologies and measures in this paper may also provide context for permit development under the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) program of the Clean Air Act, including in the assessment of the best available control technology (BACT) for GHG emissions from stationary combustion turbines.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Eugene M. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. This level of forced retirements is far in excess of any prior EPA projections of plant shutdowns resulting from implementation of a Clean Air Act rulemaking. It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990.

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Brag

MARCH 4, 2022

On January 27, 2022, U.S. Senator Capito and her colleagues request specifically that EPA reassess its proposed denial of all pending small refinery exemption (SRE) petitions under the RFS program, because EPA’s decision breaches congressional intent under the Clean Air Act (CAA). consumers; and.

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Acoel

JANUARY 31, 2022

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Seth Jaffe. Of course, the EEI did so to ensure that the Clean Air Act continues to act as a shield against private tort actions over carbon emissions, but still. As everyone knows, the Supreme Court has teed up West Virginia v. Betting money does not favor EPA in either case.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When fully implemented, the Clean Power Plan was intended to cut carbon emissions 30% below the 2005 level by 2030. Compliance was set to begin in 2022, ramping up toward 2030 emission reduction goals. The rule required states to submit initial compliance plans in 2016, with final implementation plans in 2018.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

In late December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations for the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit. The tax credit, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, provides a generous incentive for the production of clean hydrogen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2023

For one of these rules, I testified at the EPA’s “ Virtual Public Hearings on the Risk Management Program Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention (SCCAP) Proposed Rule ” in September 2022. I rule, you rule, WE RULE As a member of the Science Network , I was made aware of the Risk Management Program (RMP) rulemaking.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Carol F. Chemical storage and safety are in focus under the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act and the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (“RMP”) requirements. Certainly 2022 will bring more in the way of EPA enforcement under the Clean Air Act and other programs.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Of Justice Indicts Erie Coke (Coal) And Corporate Officer For Violating Federal Clean Air Act Over 4 Years EPA To Host Dec. Of Justice Indicts Erie Coke (Coal) And Corporate Officer For Violating Federal Clean Air Act Over 4 Years EPA To Host Dec. Click Here for a Calendar of Upcoming Events.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

This free online resource includes a searchable database that catalogues all of the climate change-related provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as well as a tracker that records actions taken by federal agencies to implement those provisions. The IRA Tracker homepage.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2022

million penalty and make extensive improvements at its steel production facility in Braddock, Pennsylvania, as part of a settlement covering longstanding air pollution violations. ACHD, the co-plaintiff with EPA, is the local governmental entity charged with enforcement of Allegheny County’s air pollution control regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

The Bad The Supreme Court has limited the EPA’s ability under the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gases, ruling it does not have the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions across the entire energy sector but can only do so on a station-by-station basis.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Total to pay $2.9

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National Law Center

MARCH 17, 2022

20-1530 (2022), a lawsuit. The United States Supreme Court recently heard arguments in West Virginia v. Envt’l Protection Agency, No. The post Scope of EPA Authority Before the Supreme Court appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Pat Parenteau. The Supreme Court kicks off its 2022 term on October 3 with the highly anticipated argument in Sackett v EPA. This time the Clean Water Act is on the chopping block.

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