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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Incremental (step-by-step) approaches In 2022, the EPA published an Environmental Justice Legal Tools document and a Cumulative Impacts Addendum. However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. Overburdened communities cannot wait any longer.

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MGKF Law

JUNE 30, 2022

EPA , the Supreme Court limited the authority of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce greenhouse gases by setting emission guidelines for existing power plants, characterizing the energy generation shifting strategy proposed in the Clean Power Plan (CPP) as an overreach of the agency’s power.

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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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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 5, 2022

Environmental partner Ethan Shenkman was quoted in a recent article from Law360 , “Biggest Environmental Cases To Watch In 2022.” » Read the full article (subscription required).

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AUGUST 29, 2024

85 MAP 2022, 2024 WL 3450536 (Pa. Because of this ruling, the three nonprofit organizations (Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future, Clean Air Council, and the Sierra Club) (Nonprofits) are now able to pursue an appeal of the Commonwealth Court’s final order permanently enjoining the RGGI Regulation from going into effect.

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SPR Law

JULY 15, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court restricted the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its 6-3 decision for West Virginia v.

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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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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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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2022

The database collects Congress’s references to climate change, along with related terms and concepts like global warming and greenhouse gases. 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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

There are several federal programs with funding available to target medium and heavy-duty ZEV transition, including: The Commercial Clean Vehicle Credit (45W) under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) assists fleets by defraying upfront costs associated with purchasing a clean vehicle, a tax credit of up to $40,000 per vehicle.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

It kills the Environmental Quality Board’s final regulation reducing carbon pollution from power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. . -- Takes Away DEP’s Authority To Regulate Carbon Pollution: The bill takes away DEP’s existing statutory authority to reduce carbon pollution from power plants and other sources.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency issued for public input a draft white paper on control techniques and measures that could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new stationary combustion turbines. EPA is asking for public comment for 45 days, through June 6, 2022. Posted: April 21, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

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. The Clean Air Act requires that the EPA’s emission limits be based on the best system of emission reduction adequately demonstrated and accounting for cost , among other things.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

If signed, the state would have to withdraw Clean Air Act waiver requests already in process with the Environmental Protection Agency. Moreover, even a delay in the implementation of the standards delays cleaning up our air and cutting greenhouse gasses.

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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”). Environmental Protection Agency , citation, 597 U.S. ­­­ _ (2022), National Federation of Independent Business v. Background.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 In April of 2023, the Biden Administration proposed new standards for cars, SUVs, and light trucks that covering both greenhouse gases and conventional pollutants like NOx. trillion miles in 2022. (If grams per mile (gpm) for NOx.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 26, 2022

On October 21, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) released a request for information (RFI) regarding Section 60103 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) , also known as the IRA’s “green bank” provisions. By Amy Turner.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency's ability to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants under the federal Clean Air Act. EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority. Read more here.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2023

These include, for example, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program administered under the Clean Air Act and Underground Injection Control Program administered under the Safe Drinking Water Act, as well as the Internal Revenue Service’s § 45Q regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in the near-term. Recently, EPA issued a protective supplemental proposal under the federal Clean Air Act to reduce methane pollution from new and existing sources in the oil and gas sector.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

The Good The Supreme Court left the EPA’s overall ability to regulate greenhouse gases intact. It agreed with settled science that carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels is the major source of greenhouse gases, and that climate change is real.

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Acoel

JANUARY 31, 2022

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Seth Jaffe. EPA , which challenges EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, and Sackett v. 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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. These emissions, which in 2022 were 37.4

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

The Heritage Foundation’s argument against the 2022 rule reads the West Virginia case very broadly: “Under West Virginia v. In West Virginia , the Court stressed that EPA had used an obscure, seldom used provision of the Clean Air Act to adopt an unprecedented regulation. Circuit are slim to none.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

NDAA: The full Senate voted to pass the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). million for PFAS clean-up. After the release of the Arctic Report Card, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy published the Arctic Research Plan for 2022-2026. The bill includes $514.3 International.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

Yet, despite several requests from states over the years, most recently California during a 2022 “heat dome” and wildfires, no White House has ever approved a disaster declaration for heat or smoke. In the work world, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics says 43 workers died in 2022 from heat.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide, on average, over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. can take in the short term to slow the rate of climate change.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

James successfully sued to subject Formosa to an environmental review over the 800 tons of toxic air pollutants as well as the 13.6 million tons of greenhouse gases that the project is expected to emit annually. The plans for the plant are projected to double air pollution in an area with some of the worst air quality in the U.S.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Karl S. 13,990 ’s direction to consider the value of global environmental harms flowing from greenhouse gas emissions could not be adopted absent a clear statutory mandate to consider extraterritorial benefits of regulatory action. Biden reasoned that E.O In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled in Whitman v.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Environmental Groups Sue Shell Oil for Clean Air Act Violations at Deer Park Refinery and Chemical Plant Mike Metzger | Environment Texas | January 7, 2008 Sierra Club and Environment Texas filed a lawsuit today in federal district court against Shell Oil Company and several affiliates.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Environmental Groups Sue Shell Oil for Clean Air Act Violations at Deer Park Refinery and Chemical Plant Mike Metzger | Environment Texas | January 7, 2008 Sierra Club and Environment Texas filed a lawsuit today in federal district court against Shell Oil Company and several affiliates.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Environmental Groups Sue Shell Oil for Clean Air Act Violations at Deer Park Refinery and Chemical Plant Mike Metzger | Environment Texas | January 7, 2008 Sierra Club and Environment Texas filed a lawsuit today in federal district court against Shell Oil Company and several affiliates.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Environmental Groups Sue Shell Oil for Clean Air Act Violations at Deer Park Refinery and Chemical Plant Mike Metzger | Environment Texas | January 7, 2008 Sierra Club and Environment Texas filed a lawsuit today in federal district court against Shell Oil Company and several affiliates.

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