PA Environment Daily
APRIL 9, 2024
The total civil penalty assessments include $350,000 for air quality violations, which is the maximum civil penalty assessment allowable under the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act, and $764,000 pursuant to Pennsylvania’s oil and gas and solid waste laws.
Legal Planet
JUNE 30, 2022
CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. at 528–529. 7411(b)(1)(B); see also §7411(a)(2). Post, at 20. American Elec. Power , 564 U. Download as PDF.
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Law Columbia
MAY 28, 2021
This week’s advancements offer two new models for local governments looking to require or promote building electrification: air pollution and land use regulation. 2317, which would amend the City’s building code to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new and renovated buildings to 50 kilograms of carbon dioxide per million BTUs.
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Shell’s air quality plan approval states that the facility’s emissions of VOCs shall not equal or exceed 516.2 This exceedance is a violation of Shell’s plan approvals ( PA-04-00740A , PA-04-00740B , and PA-04-00740C ) and the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act and regulations. tons of VOCs in a 12-month period.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Ecological Conservation.
Law Columbia
MARCH 29, 2024
The oil and gas industry must also report on the Scope 3 carbon dioxide emissions resulting from utilization of their products, regardless of whether the products are used within the U.S. California has a history as a “first mover” on environmental issues, in part due to the state’s pressing need for pollution controls.
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 30, 2022
EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority. The Court ruled EPA did not have explicit Congressional authorization to adopt a rule to shift power generation toward renewable sources.
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