PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2022

After two extensions of the air quality permit, Bradford County Real Estate Partners was advised that construction would not be completed before the July 22, 2022 expiration date of the second extension and neither would the August 26, 2021 appeal of that extension be resolved before then. Posted: March 21, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

Tom Wolf vetoed and disapproved Senate Concurrent Regulatory Review Resolution 1, which would have disabled the Commonwealth’s opportunity to enter the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and effectively achieve climate goals and reduce carbon emissions. while reducing harmful greenhouse gases. On January 10, Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

.] -- “Exempt Pennsylvania from plant-closing EPA regulations such as the Wastewater Rule and the Cross State Air Pollution Rule.” [ Note: That’s not the way it works. A state cannot exempt itself from a federal law or regulation. A state cannot exempt itself from a federal law or regulation.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

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. Tells Story Of Fracking-Related Pollution Cases, Including Demock, Susquehanna County -- Senate Committee Meets Sept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations governing implementation of the 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit , passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act. Eligibility for 45V is premised on a facility’s lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions rate. Baseline counterfactuals.

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Renewable + Law

DECEMBER 22, 2020

On December 21, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) set forth its plans to amend the state’s clean air rules to adopt Low-Emission Vehicles (LEV) and Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEV) standards, known as the Clean Cars Minnesota rule.

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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

MARCH 15, 2022

This regulation, which is a key part of DEP’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Commonwealth, has been in development since early 2019. This regulation adopts reasonably available control technology requirements and RACT emission limits for oil and natural gas sources of volatile organic compounds.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2022

What it will really do is deregulate the oil and gas industry, attempt to prevent federal regulation of the coal industry and power plants, deny critical funding to DEP to regulate oil and gas drilling, withdraw Pennsylvania from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and reopen state forest land for oil and gas leasing.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2022

Read more here. -- DCNR Secretary Outlines 2022 Priorities To Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council, Including Need For $1.4 Senate returns to session Feb. 7, 8, 9 -- Committee Schedule House returns to session Feb. Live Stream. WITF Smart Talk: Is EPA Committed To Restoring Chesapeake Bay? During 2020 -- Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Fee On Greenhouse Gases -- WPost: Cost Of Climate Change Impacts Far Surpass Government Estimates, Study Says PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- AP: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Sues U.S. What’s Your Community Doing? Other States/National/International -- Financial Times: Oil & Gas Industry Condemns First U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. Since this proposal was released in late 2022, we have testified at EPA hearings, submitted comments, and continued to raise awareness over this vital proposal.

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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. Additionally, Ohio adopted a rule in 2022 limiting the emissions of NOx from stationary industrial sources.

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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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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

July 12, 2022 — On June 30, the U.S. Three key takeaways from the court’s decision: The Court did not rule that EPA lacks authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants or other sources. EPA ) held that CO2 and other greenhouse gasses meet the definition of an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

The case was still ongoing in 2022. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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ESA

MAY 15, 2023

This proposed rule requires power plants to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 90% between 2035 and 2040 – or shut down. Congress mandated this report in the Fiscal Year 2022 budget. 8, 2022) CNSF – FY 2024 Letter to White House OMB and OSTP (Oct. 27, 2022) CNSF – FY 2023 Conference Committee Appropriations Letter (Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2022

Tom Wolf’s administration gets its way in Commonwealth Court, Pennsylvania will join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in a matter of weeks. ” The new essay outlines what the coal and natural gas industries want to happen in Pennsylvania-- If Gov. This is not how the other RGGI states decided to join either.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The case was still ongoing in 2022. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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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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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Climate Change, and Tree Planting. If a water test sample for a drinking water outlet was analyzed on or before June 1, 2021, and the analysis indicated a concentration of lead that was more than 5 ppb but less than 20 ppb, a school must take appropriate remedial measures by August 1, 2022.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

More News: Biden unveils new rules to curb methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from oil and gas operations – The Washington Post. Interior to weigh greenhouse gas emissions of proposed 2022 oil lease sales – Reuters. EPA – Draft FY 2022-2026 Environmental Protection Agency Strategic Plan. NMFS must receive comments by Nov.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Real Parties in Interest) (2022) Cal.App.5th League to Save Lake Tahoe, Mountain Area Preservation, et al./California California Clean Energy Committee v. County of Placer, et al. Sierra Pacific Industries, et al.,

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