MGKF Law

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Academy Bus , a Massachusetts District Court held that the members of the Conservation Law Foundation (the “Foundation”) lacked standing to challenge the idling of buses under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”). Conservation Law Found. Express , LLC. , 20-10032-WGY, 2023 WL 5984517, at *1 (D.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

and numerous affiliated companies (collectively, GWRSI) for violation of Clean Air Act (CAA) locomotive regulations. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice announced a settlement with Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Services Inc.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Among the commenters was my colleague Sam Wilson , who passionately and effectively called on the EPA to follow the science and enact the strongest air pollution standards to protect people’s health. pollution, half of the deaths are attributable to the burning of fossil fuels. pollution is, even at low levels of concentration.

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MGKF Law

AUGUST 2, 2023

On July 25, 2023, a Third Circuit panel rejected an environmental group’s challenge of federally approved changes to Pennsylvania’s State Implementation Plan (“SIP”), holding that the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) emissions-based analysis did not violate the Clean Air Act (“CAA”).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2024

The $42 million agreement will resolve a case alleging thousands of violations of air pollution standards that stemmed from a catastrophic 2018 fire and subsequent pollution control system breakdowns at the company’s three Mon Valley Works facilities: the Clairton Coke Works and the Edgar Thomson and Irvin steel mills.

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MGKF Law

MARCH 27, 2023

EPA’s Clean Air Act (“CAA”) rulemakings directed at power plants are often the target of regulatory challenges in federal court. Read More » Tags: Air , Clean Air Act , EPA , HAPs , Hazardous Air Pollutants , Rulemaking

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On November 17, Erie Coke Corporation, along with a corporate officer, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on among other charges, Violation of the Clean Air Act, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today. The eight-count Indictment, returned on Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

On February 17, the Clean Air Council and the Environmental Integrity Project sent a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection urging the state to temporarily halt operations at a Shell plastics chemical plant in Beaver County that has repeatedly violated air pollution limits and recently released plumes of black smoke for several hours.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The Center for Coalfield Justice is partnering with the Donora Historical Society and Smog Museum to host an October 11 webinar to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Donora smog, an event that led to the creation of the state Air Pollution Control Act and the federal Clean Air Act.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

discussing the ways in which local air districts can take action to end harmful air pollution from building appliances. Reducing appliance emissions is a critical step on the path to healthy air.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2023

There are Supreme Court cases going back a century or more dealing with what we would now consider environmental issues such as preserving nature or air pollution. I began with a Westlaw search for the term “air pollution.” The earliest opinion I found was Huron Portland Cement Co. City of Detroit. Download as PDF.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 5, 2023

EPA recently released the ECHO Clean Air Tracking Tool (ECATT), an interface and repository for Clean Air Act data that can be used to evaluate emissions at stationary sources of air pollution and analyze general air quality for the United States.

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Environment, Law, and History

JANUARY 12, 2023

Farber focuses on US Supreme Court decisions, finding its earliest uses of "air pollution" and "water pollution" and references to wilderness as something worthy of preservation in decisions from the 1960s. Wolfe, Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District vehicle, Burbank, 1947-1950?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2022

million penalty and make extensive improvements at its steel production facility in Braddock, Pennsylvania, as part of a settlement covering longstanding air pollution violations. Steel is required to make numerous improvements in training, monitoring and work practices to increase compliance and timely response to air pollution.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On February 12, environmental groups announced the US Environmental Protection Agency formally objected to an air quality permit for the US Steel Edgar Thomson Plant issued by the Allegheny County Health Department in August 2023 saying it was not in compliance with the Clean Air Act. Steel Edgar Thomson by ACHD.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The case involved the lynchpin of the Clean Air Act, EPA’s power to set national air quality standards. The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. Among other things, the Clean Air Act gives federal protection to wetlands.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In a major win for community members in South Memphis, Tennessee, a facility emitting a toxic air pollutant— ethylene oxide (EtO)—announced late last month that it will close its doors. We also estimated that EtO emissions contributed to more than 80 percent of the cancer risk attributable to toxic air pollution around the facility.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Beverly Wright, Vernice Miller-Travis , and Peggy Shepard, among others, shows that Black and brown communities are disproportionately exposed to and harmed by pollution. A myriad of studies since have validated these findings across a number of exposures, such as soot air pollution (PM2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Vorys Law

JANUARY 26, 2021

On January 20, 2021, the Ohio EPA’s Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC) hosted a “Program Advisory Group” (PAG) meeting via Microsoft Teams to inform interested stakeholders of recent and upcoming DAPC activities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As with too many other air pollutants, people of color face a disproportionate impact from sterilizers that pose greater cancer risks, co-located facilities, and those violating the Clean Air Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 1, 2022

Truck traffic has been on the rise , even during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that increase means even more air pollution in communities already disproportionately impacted by the public health emergency. This fight by industry to delay, obstruct, and otherwise thwart stronger regulation has devastating consequences.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. And what sparked the ensuing plunge in coal use starting with Obama’s presidency? The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

California has a longstanding leadership role on transportation pollution, and the Clean Air Act grants the state the right to set strong vehicle emissions standards. While the waiver addresses California’s ability to enforce its rules, the Clean Air Act also allows other states the ability to adopt California’s policies.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 23, 2013

Specifically, Section 126(b) provides that: Any State or political subdivision may petition the Administrator for a finding that any major source or group of stationary sources emits or would emit any air pollutant in violation of the prohibition of [the “good neighbor” provision] or this section. 7410(a)(2)(D)(i). GenOn REMA , No.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

EPA plans to issue a Clean Air Act rulemaking for commercial sterilizers later this year and for other chemical facilities soon, as well. EPA proposed changes to its MON rule in 2019, regulating toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants that produce solvents, plastics, and pesticides across the country.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2023

Covanta Delaware Valley, LP is a permitted waste-to-energy facility that has filed an application for a Plan Approval to install equipment that would reduce the amount of the pollutant nitrogen oxides (NOx) emitted from the facilities six (6) waste combustors to meet the new federal and state standards for air pollution.

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Environment, Law, and History

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Farber writes: Well over a century ago, the Supreme Court ruled that it had that power to remedy interstate water pollution. Six years later, the Court decided its first air pollution case. Yet the Court didn’t hesitate to address pollution issues. an interstate air pollution case. That was in 1901.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The Donora Smog Disaster of 1948 in Washington County is perhaps the most infamous air pollution event in American history.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 1, 2013

Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the American Lung Association in the litigation involving EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (“CSAPR”). The CSAPR sets limits on sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants in 28 upwind states in the eastern part of the country. On August 21, 2012, in a 2-1 decision, the D.C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to review—and update—its ethylene oxide emissions standards every eight years, but the last time it did so was in 2006. The study looked at cancer diagnoses between 2006 and 2019 and found “significantly greater than expected” cases of lymphocytic leukemia and breast cancer.

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

s lawsuit “artfully pled” that it was based on a local consumer protection law, it was actually premised on the federal common law governing interstate air pollution. The companies acknowledged that Congress’ enactment of the Clean Air Act supplanted the federal common law on air pollution.

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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).

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Environment Next

JULY 22, 2021

The bill further requires EPA to list PFOA and PFOS as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) under the Clean Air Act and establish pretreatment standards and effluent limits for the compounds under the Clean Water Act.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2012

Wiegand On August 21, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR). Specifically, only states that contributed a threshold amount to the air pollution in a downwind state were subject to the provision.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

Fourth, unlike the Clean Power Plan, this regulation is not just about greenhouse gases and climate change. It also applies to conventional air pollutants – the same pollutants that EPA has regulated since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970.

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