PA Environment Daily
MARCH 15, 2023
Beginning in the 2026 ozone season, EPA is setting enforceable NOX emissions control requirements for certain sources at existing and new industrial facilities that have significant impacts on downwind air quality and the ability to install cost-effective pollution controls.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. Cars and trucks are a lot cleaner than when I was growing up.
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Law Columbia
MARCH 29, 2024
Current estimates are that the law will impact over 10,000 companies, which will have to draft a report every two years, beginning January 1, 2026, and publish it on their own website. The SEC’s regime is an investor protection program, and nowhere in the SEC’s rule does a stated goal of pollution control or GHG emission reduction appear.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Now, SB 1137 protects communities by establishing a setback distance of 3,200 feet for homes, schools, parks, or businesses open to the public from new wells, and requires comprehensive pollution controls for existing oil wells within the setback zone. Two new laws address this issue on different fronts.
Acoel
JUNE 29, 2022
Units with existing advanced NOx controls must optimize their utilization by 2023. EPA also should select the “less stringent” alternative to the rule, providing additional time for control technology retrofits. Eugene M.
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
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 EPA will evaluate progress in 2026 and decide if the approach is working.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
This Rule continues to use the same time-tested, court-affirmed methodology EPA has long used to identify cost-effective pollution controls and equitably allocate reductions among upwind States. And the Rule’s longer-term requirements for power plants are based on common controls already installed at two-thirds of U.S.
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