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On October 23, 2024, the CleanAir Council and the Environment Integrity Project filed a notice of intent to sue the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for emitting particulate matter (PM 2.5) and nitrogen oxides in violation of the federal CleanAirAct, the state AirPollution Control Act and the plant's permit. "As
A coalition of health, community, and environmental groups recently released a new map showing more than 500 facilities that emit toxic or hazardous airpollution that have applied for a Presidential two-year exemption from hazardous airpollution limits. Click Here for the Environmental Integrity Project announcement.
First off, the definition of pollutant in the CleanAirAct (CAA) clearly does include CO 2 as well as water vapor. But both claims are bogus. This was the point litigated in Massachusetts v.
Shell Petrochemical Plant Penalties In May 2023, the Shell Petrochemical Plant served by the pipeline signed a consent order that included over $17 million in penalties to resolve airpollution violations-- over $12.6 million in penalty payments and $5 million in local community environmental restoration funding. Read more here.
On July 28, the US Environmental Protection Agency formally issued an interim final rule extending several deadlines for industry compliance with national methane standards for new and existing oil and gas facilities, known as Section 111, OOOOb/c of the CleanAirAct. 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.
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The City Council is also considering a bill that would require the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a rule to regulate indirect sources of airpollution. The City cannot directly regulate vehicle emissions due to CleanAirAct preemption, but it can regulate indirect sources like e-commerce warehouses.
The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new airpollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v.
XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged CleanAirAct and Pennsylvania AirPollution Control Act violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4
A quick refresher: Automobiles and trucks are among the leading causes of climate- and lung-destroying airpollution worldwide, and shifting from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles is a key strategy (among many) to cut these emissions. It’s a bleak outlook from any angle. What does it mean for the electric vehicle transition?
4 - Repurposing Underutilized Lands For Energy - Marginal Farmlands, Abandoned Mine Sites, Brownfields [PaEN] -- EPA Awards $34 Million In Grants To Reduce AirPollution At Schools; Highlights Efforts In Philadelphia [PaEN] -- DEP Awards $18.9 Million To 126 Municipalities To Support Local Recycling Programs [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Nov.
Over 156 million people in the US are exposed to unhealthy levels of airpollutants, according to the recently published 2025 State-of-the Air report from the American Lung Association (ALA). For 25 years the report has helped people across the country understand the quality of the air in their communities.
They involve reduced protection for endangered species, eliminating energy efficiency rules, blocking new transmission lines, changing electricity regulation to favor fossil fuels, weakening airpollution rules, and encouraging sale of gas guzzlers. #1. Crippling airpollution control. 402-404] #5. Embracing gas guzzlers.
EPA Supreme Court ruling which held that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously airpollutants covered by the CleanAirAct. Attacks on the Endangerment Finding and EPAs CleanAirAct authority from industry interests are nothing new.
In particular, we discuss the severe adverse effects that heavy-duty vehicles have on local airpollution and public health in cities, and especially in disadvantaged communities.
Shell on behalf of all the companies responded that the Solicitor General had effectively reversed the governments position that the CleanAirAct preempts claims in these climate cases. 7401 et seq. The outgoing Biden Administration had also opposed an effort by GOP-led states to block the suits.
This framework allows state environmental laws passed pursuant to a federal environmental law, like the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) or CleanAirAct (“CAA”), to have the force and effect of federal law if the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) approves the state implementation plans.
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penalty and $5 million restitution from the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for airpollution violations; -- $1.4 million penalty against Halliburton Energy Services for 255 violations of the state Solid Waste Management Act; -- $1.5 DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties [Shared Equally], Plus $1.4
We dont have to tell you that airpollution remains a serious threat to communities across California, from Oakland to the Inland Empire. But what if we told you that most air regulators are fighting airpollution with one hand tied behind their back, unnecessarily?
In 1970, Lee Iacocca, then Ford’s executive vice president, said that the CleanAirActs limits on tailpipe pollution “could prevent continued production of automobiles” and “do irreparable damage to the American economy. Data from California Air Resources Board ACCII rulemaking documents.
The CleanAirAct, which prohibits states from exceeding federal emissions standards for motor vehicles, with the significant exception of Californias statutory ability to obtain a preemption waiver for standards needed to tackle the states singular airpollution challenges.
The 2009 endangerment finding has played a foundational role in CleanAirAct regulation of GHG emissions from both mobile and stationary sources. As the court noted, the CleanAirAct only requires a finding that the airpollution at issue may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.
The GGRF fares particularly badly: in addition to the rescission of unobligated balances, the Act repeals the underlying statutory authority for the program (in simple terms, it strikes the relevant section from CleanAirAct).
We can rebuild it—we have the technology (and lax regulations) Under the CleanAirAct, the Environmental Protection Agency sets emissions standards for engines in new locomotives. Unfortunately, the Biden administration did not grant such a waiver before leaving office.
Understanding the Endangerment Finding Two requirements must be met before a substance can be regulated under the CleanAirAct. First, it has to qualify as an airpollutant. The CleanAirAct defines an airpollutant to be any airpollution agent or combination of such agents, including any precursor chemicals.
EPA also granted another waiver for something called the Omnibus Low NOx rule, submitted more than two years ago, which would require trucks to cut NOx pollution by 90 percent below current levels. In granting the waiver, EPA made clear that the California program will cut the airpollutants that cause smog dramatically.
We share the concerns expressed by former EPA administrators who recently wrote that such cuts would render the agency incapable of protecting Americans from grave threats in our air, water and land. Another credible analysis found the benefits of the CleanAirAct exceeded its costs by more than 30 to one.
Decades of government vehicle standards to improve vehicle efficiency and cut down on tailpipe pollution have saved car and truck drivers trillions of dollars at the pump, saved countless lives from reduced exposure to toxic airpollution , and avoided the extraction and burning of billions of barrels of oil.
And buried within the list of 31 is a huge bombshell: the “reconsideration” of EPA’s finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare under the CleanAirAct.
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But Zeldins actions face a major problem: the Congressional Review Act doesnt cover administrative actions like the California waivers and Congress cant use the CRA to overturn them. The problem for California legally is that under the CleanAirAct , the state cant issue tough emissions standards without EPAs permission.
All of this activity makes ports surrounded by dangerous levels of airpollution. UCS and local advocates are looking to win a similar rule in New York, the Clean Deliveries Act. These rules are sometimes called indirect source rules, and are legally defined as such in the federal CleanAirAct.
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Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal CleanAirAct. This legal battle has both a long history and enormous implications for California’s aggressive pollution control and climate change policies.
A nuclear plant would require permitting from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and would also require a Clean Water Act permit for taking cooling water from a stream or lake, and separate permitting for discharging used cooling water due to impurities in the used water. It could certainly be a problem in water stressed areas.
establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are airpollutants covered by the CleanAirAct. The court further mandated that, under the CleanAirAct, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.
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We want to make sure that both workers and the community residents are protected under the guidelines of the CleanAirAct. The pollution amounts that will be associated with the increased operations and increased emissions of pollutants goes into the air we breathe.
Before making this finding, first had to offer a novel reading of the CleanAirAct (CAA). These efforts were based on section 111 of the CleanAirAct. The listing provision required EPA to issue a list of categories of pollution sources within 90 days of the law’s passage.
My prior posts ( here and here ) show how EPA’s new endangerment requirement makes little sense given the language of the CleanAirAct and EPA’s prior implementation of the law. No, I’m serious — even though power plants emit a billion-and-half tons of CO2 a year (a quarter of all U.S.
The Advanced Clean Cars II rule would require 100% EV sales in California by 2035 and strengthen tailpipe emissions standards, resulting in an estimated 1,200 fewer deaths fro m airpollution by 2040.
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