Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

EPA last year, the new draft rule does not determine emission limits based on “generation shifting,” or the closure of fossil fuel-powered plants in favor of cleaner sources of electricity. Still, the fact that this draft rule follows the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”) has enabled the EPA to be relatively stringent.

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JULY 1, 2022

EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. What does this mean for clean energy projects?

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 Theoretically, if the proportion of electric vehicles were high enough, it wouldn’t need pollution controls on its gas-powered vehicles. trillion miles in 2022. (If grams per mile (gpm) for NOx. That’s not, however, a realistic. compliance option.

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APRIL 20, 2023

Because beyond the importance of cleaning up the power sector itself, we also need a clean electricity system to enable the decarbonization of so many other aspects of our economy, from vehicles to homes and businesses to industrial processes. The Supreme Court clipped the agency’s wings in its 2022 West Virginia v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 31, 2023

An opportunity to directly tackle power plant carbon pollution The power sector remains one of the nation’s largest sources of heat-trapping emissions, with about 60 percent of the electricity generated to keep our lights on coming from fossil fuels. EPA must ensure the final rule equips states to take advantage of this flexibility.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2022, installed wind and solar power more than tripled , according to American Clean Power. percent of US electricity and utility-scale solar generated 3.4 percent the three renewables generated in 2022 exceeded coal’s output— 19.5 In 2012, coal generated 37 percent of US electricity.

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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. Soon thereafter, it began extolling the virtues of battery electric vehicles , which it continues to do today. At the end of 2022, there were more than 283 million. That’s not healthy.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

electricity generation in future years, primarily use natural gas to create electricity. The draft white paper is an important step forward in EPA’s efforts to engage communities and the power sector on strategies to improve clean air and reduce climate pollution in the years ahead. “As

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Robert B. EPA as a decision depriving EPA of an important tool to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. First Court did not eliminate the Agency’s ability to require greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reductions under section 111 or any other section of the Clean Air Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. Electric utilities, meanwhile, gave her $44,750.

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ESA

JANUARY 10, 2022

11, 2022, from 12-4 pm eastern time. Ted Lieu (D-CA) introduced the Climate Solutions Act ( H.R. 6351 ), which requires that 100 percent of electricity sold in the United States be generated from renewable sources by 2035. 15, 2022, and IPBES will hold an online workshop for reviewers Jan. Science and Engineering Jan.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court.

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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

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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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 reason why the plan has no further practical relevance is a rapid shift in the mix of sources for generating electricity.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Eugene M. EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

In March 2022, the SEC proposed amendments to Regulations S-X that would both enhance and standardize public companies’ climate-related disclosures (“Climate-Related Disclosures”). purchased energy and electricity), and for some companies to report on information related to “Scope 3” carbon emissions (i.e., Background.

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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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Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act added reporting requirements of PFAS releases for certain industries. EPA intends to propose a rulemaking in 2022 to categorize the PFAS on the TRI list as “Chemicals. Evaluate whether PFAS Compounds should be Designated “Hazardous Air Pollutants” under the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

While PA Environment Digest’s priority is to highlight positive examples of environmental and energy leadership, 2022 is an election year which demands accountability to voters. Natural Gas And Oil; Target Northeast U.S. For Pipeline Development [PaEN] -- TribLive/Bloomberg: U.S.

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Acoel

JANUARY 31, 2022

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Seth Jaffe. After all, no less a group of environmental radicals than the Edison Electric Institute has filed a brief in support of EPA’s authority to regulate GHGs. 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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2023

. -- Utility Dive: PJM Asks FERC To Help Resolve Complaints With 8 Power Companies Over Winter Storm Elliott Nonperformance Penalties [About 200 Companies Face Penalties] -- Marcellus Drilling News/CMU: 10% Of Natural Gas Pipeline Compressors Vulnerable To Outages Because They Run On Electricity -- The Guardian: Nearly 120 Million In U.S.

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Acoel

JULY 25, 2022

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Steven Chester. And importantly, the state plans are not limited to reducing carbon emissions from power plants but are economy-wide in scope, evaluating greenhouse gas reduction and clean energy opportunities in the electric supply, transportation, commercial and industrial, land use, and agricultural sectors.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The Biden administration told the justices that there was no need for them to step in now, because the Clean Power Plan “is no longer in effect and EPA does not intend to resurrect it.” Instead, the government explained, it intends to issue a new rule that takes recent changes in the electricity sector into account.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

July 12, 2022 — On June 30, the U.S. EPA held the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan Rule exceeded EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. EPA ) held that CO2 and other greenhouse gasses meet the definition of an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2023

Nature Gas Output To Hit Record High In 2023, Demand To Fall -- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Price Falls As Ample LNG Supply Outweighs Colder Weather Other States/National/International -- TribLive/Bloomberg: U.S.

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Acoel

JANUARY 11, 2022

Posted on January 11, 2022 by David G. 9, 2022) at SR-7. Times No. 9, 2022) at SR-7. In my January 2021 column for the Legal Intelligencer ’s Pennsylvania Law Weekly I suggested the opposite, or maybe an inside-out version of the same thing: “[t]he governmental response to the viral pandemic is. 7, 2022) ; Biden v.

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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

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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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Of Justice Indicts Erie Coke (Coal) And Corporate Officer For Violating Federal Clean Air Act Over 4 Years [PaEN] -- Erie Times: Erie Coke (Coal), Ex-Plant Chief Indicted On Charges Of Violating Federal Clean Air Act -- Pittsburgh's Group Against Smog & Pollution Hosts Dec.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) represent a radical change in federal climate policy. Similarly, as our panelist Dustin Maghamfar has written , the IRA amends the Clean Air Act in ways that will have a qualitative impact. RSVP here !

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2023

Steele, Environmental Health Project -- EPA/DOE To Provide More Than $1 Billion To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Sector -- Erie Times: Erie Coke (Coal) Plant Finally Gets Lawyers In Federal Clean Air Act Criminal Case -- Public News Service: PA Groups Support New EPA Carbon Pollution Standards For Coal, Gas Plants -- Feature: Comparing (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2023

Steel Edgar Thomson Steel Plant Air Pollution Violations $1.5 Million Penalty, Settlement With Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Over Clean Air Act Violations [PaEN] -- TribLive: Allegheny County Health Dept. Steel Edgar Thomson Steel Plant Consent Decree Explained -- EPA Announces $1.35 Hits Contractors With $1.1

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19, Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. million in settlement of 34 labor cases at the TST ( Superior Labor Court). But for all the wrong reasons.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19, Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. One topless woman interrupted CEO Oliver Blume's speech with the words "Dirty Money" painted on her back.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19, Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. One topless woman interrupted CEO Oliver Blume's speech with the words "Dirty Money" painted on her back.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19, Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. One topless woman interrupted CEO Oliver Blume's speech with the words "Dirty Money" painted on her back.

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