PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

million to improve the Bureau of Air Quality’s air monitoring capabilities, with particular focus on oil and gas activity. In 2023, DEP cataloged and analyzed its permitting activities under Executive Order 2023-07. Our proposed budget also includes $1.1 Many of our authorizations would benefit from electronic review.

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Clean Energy 2024 2023 Climate Change 80

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It was originally published in the blog STAT on November 10, 2023. The National Aeronautics and Atmospheric Administration offered to fly an airplane equipped with the world’s most sophisticated air samplers over Houston to monitor air pollution.

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Government Air Pollution Law Fossil Fuels 230

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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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Regulations Carbon Dioxide 57

Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 23, 2021

EPA intends to finalize the rule by January 2023. EPA expects to issue a proposed regulation in Fall 2022 to establish a drinking water standard for PFOA and PFOS (before the Agency’s statutory deadline of March 2023). The Agency anticipates issuing a final regulation in Fall 2023. There are currently 187 HAPs.

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Regulations Clean Air Act Toxic Substances Control Act Air Pollution 52

Capaccio

JUNE 14, 2022

If your company is in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has added additional PFAS to its Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA) reportable chemicals list as a category “Certain PFAS ,Not Otherwise Listed” which will be reportable by July 1 2023. . Designate certain PFAS as CERCLA hazardous waste .

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Toxic Substances Control Act Clean Air Act 2021 2024 52

Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. Information to be collected includes information about chemical identity, categories of use, volumes manufactured and processed, byproducts, environmental and health effects, worker exposure, and disposal. The House bill ( H.R.

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2021 2020 Regulations Law 52

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The bill would amend Section 4 of TSCA to require EPA to issue a testing rule for all PFAS that would require manufacturers and processors of PFAS to develop information “likely to be useful in evaluating the hazard and risk posed by such substances in land, air, and water (including drinking water), as well as in products.

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