PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

“At GASP we not only monitor air quality and challenge industrial polluters’ illegal emissions, we also work to hold air quality regulators accountable for doing their jobs and fulfilling the duties that air pollution laws impose on them,” Executive Director Patrick Campbell explained.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

On April 4, the PJM Interconnection sent a letter to the President supporting Presidential exemptions from the federal Clean Air Act requested by 13,900 MW of electric generation in the PJM region. Photos: Keystone and Conemaugh power plants.)

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

On August 16, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (or “IRA”), widely hailed as the most ambitious piece of climate legislation in U.S. The bill also has healthcare and prescription drug provisions, makes tax code changes unrelated to climate and energy, and guarantees federal land on- and offshore for oil and gas drilling.)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

We want to make sure that both workers and the community residents are protected under the guidelines of the Clean Air Act. The pollution amounts that will be associated with the increased operations and increased emissions of pollutants goes into the air we breathe.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) released a request for information (RFI) regarding Section 60103 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) , also known as the IRA’s “green bank” provisions. Local governments may have different views about the kinds of projects they would like to see prioritized, but there are likely areas of commonality.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

For our existing sites in PJM, this means that we are working to bring on a portfolio of new, round-the-clock carbon-free generation resources that can produce as much or more energy each hour than we consume. In 2007, Google committed to carbon neutrality in its operations. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

The proposed rule would apply to new and existing gas plants and existing coal plants—new coal plants are separately regulated—and promises to significantly cut carbon and other harmful air pollutant emissions from fossil plants over the next two decades and beyond. This language, particularly the bolded text, is important.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2023

On April 18, a coalition of 23 clean energy, environmental justice, and climate action organizations working in Pennsylvania sent a letter to the U.S. Moreover, in 2020, Pennsylvania recorded the highest amount of premature deaths per capita caused by air pollution in the entire country.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

EPA’s 2024 Power Plant Rules EPA is required to regulate power plant emissions under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. EPA that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases fall within the Clean Air Act’s capacious definition of “air pollutant.” In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2025

EPA is reconsidering these regulations to ensure they do not prevent America from unleashing energy dominance and continuing our trajectory as a leader in clean energy and emissions reductions. “We Like President Trump, we want America to have the cleanest air, crystal clear water, and the healthiest people.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Regulating the carbon emissions of thousands of power plants is not a choice, it’s what’s required under the Clean Air Act and subsequent determinations and court decisions.  If this all feels like deja vu, that’s because we’ve been here before. Long story short, they did and it is.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

On May 13, Republicans on the US House Energy and Commerce Committee took action to advance legislation through the Congressional budget reconciliation process that includes a provision that would delay and defund the Methane Emission Reduction Program (MERP). Earlier Action The MERP's waste emissions charge is estimated to raise $7.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, 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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

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 Clean Air Act exceeded its costs by more than 30 to one.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Our client is Tom Jorling, a former Senate staffer and EPA official who was directly involved in drafting the Act in 1970. (We The court then paused the litigation while EPA revisited the issue.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. EPA , 549 U.S.

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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2022

The Clean Power Plan has no practical significance today: the deadlines in the Plan have long since passed, and the U.S. The Trump Administration said that the second two prongs, involving shifts away from coal and toward renewables, went beyond EPA’s powers under the Clean Air Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, 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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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Washington Supreme Court concluded that the Washington Clean Air Act did not grant the Department of Ecology authority to regulate indirect greenhouse gas emissions of businesses and utilities whose products ultimately generate such emissions. Oregon Court Reinstated Clean Energy Ballot Initiatives.

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Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

An about-face on the Clean Air Act The Clean Air Act provision that EPA uses to regulate power plant carbon — known as Section 111 — asks EPA to first determine whether a source category “causes, or contributes significantly” to harmful air pollution.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court also found that the plaintiffs had demonstrated irreparable injury based on “the waste of publicly owned natural gas, increased air pollution and associated health impacts, and exacerbated climate impacts.” ExxonMobil Corp. applied federal common law. In re PennEast Pipeline Co. , CP15-558-000, CP15-558-001 (FERC Feb.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

(That could backfire on the administrations own goals for energy dominance and AI agenda even the Washington Examiner reported. Meanwhile, EPA has posted a roster of nearly 50 coal-fired power plants that took the administrations offer on the Email us for a free pass on compliance with the Clean Air Act. Deep breath.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A quick refresher: Automobiles and trucks are among the leading causes of climate- and lung-destroying air pollution 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. It’s a bleak outlook from any angle.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Citizens for Clean Energy v. Circuit Decision on Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Department of the Interior , No. 4:17-cv-00030 (D.

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Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

My UCLA Ann Carlson wrote about the chutzpah of Trumps DOJ citing the Clean Air Act to preemptively go after state climate lawsuits like this one. Bad news Budget pollution: Last week I wrote about how Trumps first 100 days attacked key environmental initiatives. His proposed budget, released last Friday, does the same.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

He has launched an illegal effort to claw back $20 billion in EPA clean energy funding significantly targeted for disadvantaged communities. Many other states in recent years have decided they would follow Californias standards, as they are allowed to under the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc. XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act and Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. Read more here. Read more here.

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