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Boston Regulates Building GHG Emissions: The Next Few Years Will Be Very Interesting

Law and Environment

The limits will first be effective in 2025, with the limits declining every five years until they reach zero by 2050. The Air Pollution Control Commission has authority to suspend some or all of the requirements of BERDO 2.0 As indicated by its name, since its original enactment, BERDO only dealt with reporting and disclosure.

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Bay Journal: EPA Says PA’s Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plan Falls Short, Again

PA Environment Daily

After the state submitted a plan in 2019 that failed to meet 2025 cleanup goals, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, along with the District of Columbia, Chesapeake Bay Foundation and others filed suit against the EPA for failing to press the state to make greater progress. The dispute has found its way into court.

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DEP Posted 72 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In May 18 PA Bulletin

PA Environment Daily

. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the May 18 PA Bulletin announcing it is extending the NPDES General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (PAG-13) until a new PAG-13 is reissued.

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Bay Journal: States/EPA Agree To New Plan For More Nutrient, Sediment Reductions In Chesapeake Bay Watershed To Make Up For Conowingo Dam

PA Environment Daily

By Karl Blankenship, Chesapeake Bay Journal It has taken more than four years, but leaders in the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort say they’ve found a path forward for dealing with the added pollution stemming from Conowingo Dam. The plan is not fully funded and will not achieve its pollution reduction goals by the 2025 Bay cleanup deadline.

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

ppb by 2025. In sum, EPA’s proposal for reducing interstate ozone transport adopts unrealistic deadlines and overly-aggressive emission control retrofit mandates. Greater compliance flexibility, and smaller adverse job impacts, could be achieved by an incremental approach to pollution control upgrades. Eugene M.

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120 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

York County Receives $5.8 8 Bus Tour Of Stream Restoration Projects -- Citizens Voice: Freeland Stormwater Project In Luzerne County Largest Infrastructure Investment In 2 Decades -- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Host In-Person Municipal Stormwater Forum Sept. 25, Clipper Magazine Stadium, Lancaster. to 3:00 p.m. -- Our Pocono Waters Hosts Sept.

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Chesapeake Bay Program: Unusual Weather Conditions Continue To Impact Chesapeake Bay Water Quality

PA Environment Daily

According to these computer simulations, pollution controls put into place between 2009 and 2020 are estimated to have lowered overall nitrogen by 13 percent, overall phosphorus by 14 percent and sediment by 4 percent. Click Here for the complete announcement. For more information, visit the Chesapeake Bay Program website.