PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

This initiative brings together our most advanced technologies to help solve one of the greatest challenges of the AI era evolving our electricity systems to meet this moment, said Amanda Peterson Corio, Head of Data Center Energy for Google. Resource Links: -- WPXI: Microsoft Says Its Slowing Or Pausing Some A.I.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

That same day, Trump signed a trio of congressional resolutions that improperly seek to vaporize California’s long-standing authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate vehicle pollution to clean our air. That last one got less coverage than it deserves. A first: Earlier this month, a U.S. Kennedy Airport.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

The lawsuit, brought by railroad industry groups, had been held in abeyance since September 30, 2024, awaiting a determination by EPA on which portions of the regulation would require EPA authorization under the Clean Air Act and whether to grant such authorization. Department of the Interior on April 23, 2025.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office in January 2025, his second presidency will have widespread implications for the energy industry, especially new investments, but not necessarily in the ways his supporters might expect. Negotiations on the 2025 tax bill will implicate many of the IRA’s provisions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

This en banc hearing, approved by a unanimous vote of the Commission on March 27, 2025, examined how to ensure a fair, transparent, and forward-looking approach to connecting high-energy users to the grid while protecting existing utility customers. power grid, including upgrading the physical infrastructure with advanced technologies (e.g.,

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Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

Skip to main content Scientific American June 12, 2025 7 min read Inside the EPA’s Attempt to Roll Back Climate Regulation The EPA has contradicted itself—and legal precedent—in its bid to undo Biden-era limits on power-plant climate pollution By Jean Chemnick , Niina H. Bush administration, disagreed.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2025

MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day It also offers strategic policy recommendations to unclog the queue and get projects online faster. Washington County [PaEN] -- Wall Street Journal: Homer City Coal Power Plant Was Just Imploded To Make Way For An A.I.

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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. Technologies to treat produced water to a quality for safe discharge and reuse have become more effective and affordable.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

On April 4, the PJM Interconnection sent a letter to the President supporting Presidential exemptions from the federal Clean Air Act requested by 13,900 MW of electric generation in the PJM region. Photos: Keystone and Conemaugh power plants.) Photos: Keystone and Conemaugh power plants.)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

This funding includes repeal of the provisions in the federal Clean Air Act making funding available for Pennsylvanias MERP conventional oil and gas well plugging program. Much of this assistance was aimed at lowering the bar for small producers to put in place waste reduction technologies.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. Questions should be directed to Todd Wallace at twallace@pa.gov or by telephone at 717-783-6395. Upcoming Meeting December 12-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Click Here for options to join the meeting remotely.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2025

President Donald Trump got it right from the start when he issued an executive order in January to strengthen America’s AI – the next great technological forefront. Read what Administrator Zeldin had to say in his exclusive op-ed for Fox News -- “The global race to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) has begun.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

On March 24, the US Environmental Protection Agency posted information on how industries regulated under a variety of federal Clean Air Act programs could obtain Presidential Exemptions from those requirements. Please: Use Presidential Exemption: [Name of Regulation]: [Facility(ies) Name] as the subject of the request.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

While the changes are slated to go into effect for facilities placed in service on or after January 1, 2025, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) still have some complex—and deeply consequential—issues left to resolve. Most notably, this reference covers direct and significant indirect emissions.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

The agency’s air quality modeling indicates that most areas would receive an ozone reduction of less than 0.1 ppb by 2025. These air quality impacts are minimal compared with the major ozone reductions resulting from the 1998 SIP Call, which resulted in more than 80,000 megawatts of coal capacity being retrofitted with SCRs.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

By Natalie Bencivenga, KDKA Radio -- Scranton Times: Norfolk Southern Repairing Rail Freight Bridge In Scranton -- EPA Adds Fmr Exide Technologies Facility In Berks County To Superfund National Priorities List [PaEN] -- EPA Opens Regional $1.5

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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. These withdrawals could potentially put those waiver decisions into the hands of a hostile federal administration in 2025.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Regulating the carbon emissions of thousands of power plants is not a choice, it’s what’s required under the Clean Air Act and subsequent determinations and court decisions.  If this all feels like deja vu, that’s because we’ve been here before. million electric cars in use by 2025. Long story short, they did and it is.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In 1970, Lee Iacocca, then Ford’s executive vice president, said that the Clean Air Acts limits on tailpipe pollution “could prevent continued production of automobiles” and “do irreparable damage to the American economy. In 2022 and 2023, Honda effectively offered no EVs at all in California.

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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. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This secret of the federal government is why I’m so baffled by Project 2025’s proposal to give the President the power (through something called “Schedule F”) to convert as many as 50,000 jobs in the federal government from career positions to political ones. That is true regardless of which party is in power. It’s true across agencies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2024

Now, instead of deferring to the expertise of agencies that, for instance, set specific pollution limits under the Clean Air Act, courts can substitute their own judgment about what the one true meaning of the statute is and strike down regulations that don’t align with their interpretations of what the “best” reading is.

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

Federal Register ESA Responds to the National Nature Assessment Request for Information After extensive outreach to the ESA community, the National Nature Assessment Working Group submitted comments on behalf of ESA in response to White House Office of Science and Technology Request for Information “Framing the National Nature Assessment.”

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

This suggests that standards will go above and beyond the Obama-era regulations, which in any event only went out to model year 2025.In Moreover, the fuel-switching that the Clean Power Plan was designed to achieve has already largely occurred through market forces alone.

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ESA

JANUARY 10, 2022

Wilson – White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. PCAST: The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology will meet virtually Jan. 20-21 to discuss measuring and monitoring greenhouse gases and accelerating innovation in energy technologies. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Feb.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

The bill was introduced in the House on August 6 and referred to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology and on Transportation and Infrastructure ( H.R. On July 21, 2021, the House of Representatives passed the PFAS Action Act of 2021 by a 241-183 vote. Comprehensive PFAS Bill Passed House. The House bill ( H.R. N: 2021 Md.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In the landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2016 (AB32), California established the goal of limiting statewide GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The legislation directed the Air Resources Board (ARB) to adopt regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost?effective mpg by 2025.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

EPA reissued the proposed UCMR 5 on February 22, which was first issued during the Trump Administration and requires sample collection for 29 PFAS between 2023 and 2025. It focuses on three destruction and disposal technologies: thermal treatment, landfilling, and underground injection.

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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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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2025

In May 2025, both the U.S. House and Senate passed resolutions to revoke Californias Clean Air Act waivers , which allow the state to enforce stricter vehicle emissions rules than federal standards (see Ann Carlsons post on this issue ). Photo by Mario Roberto Durn Ortiz via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2025

Specifically, the Rule requires compliance with standards premised on the application of emissions-control technologies that do not yet exist in a commercially viable form. The Rule places severe burdens on coal-fired power plants and, through its indirect effects, on the viability of our Nation's coal sector.

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Acoel

MARCH 20, 2025

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Jeff Civins 10 Reasons Why This Case Is Squirrelly In Port Arthur Community Action Network (PACAN) v. The judges had recommended that the permit be issued contingent on application of the more stringent technology. PCAN filed suit in the Fifth Circuit.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2025

This funding includes repeal of the provisions in the federal Clean Air Act making funding available for Pennsylvanias MERP conventional oil and gas well plugging program. Much of this assistance was aimed at lowering the bar for small producers to put in place waste reduction technologies.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. Click Here to join the meeting via Microsoft Teams. DEP Contact: Lindsay Byron at lbyron@pa.gov or calling 717-772-8951. Read more here. April 24-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

. -- Directs CEQ to assist agencies in adopting coal-related categorical exclusions under NEPA. -- Seeks to promote coal and coal technology exports, facilitate international offtake agreements for U.S.

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