Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2022

Quick legal background: The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set national ambient air quality standards or NAAQS (pronounced “knacks”). Revising the standards will also help address air pollution. When the process is done, the result will not only be better protection of public health.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 As a result of the growth in vehicle use, the improvements in vehicle pollution control have not resulted in proportional improvements in air quality. grams per mile (gpm) for NOx.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

After all, the transportation sector is the largest contributor of US anthropogenic global warming emissions, accounting for 29 percent as of 2021, and the majority of those emissions— 81 percent —come from cars and trucks. If that happens, EVs could make up 60 to 70 percent of the cars on US roads by 2050.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Clean Power Plan was based on section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. There’s been a lot of discussion among academics and advocates about instead using section 115 of the Clean Air Act as a basis for carbon regulations. Here are the options going forward for regulating existing power plants.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. Some 23,000 megawatts of coal capacity is projected to be retired due to the new transport rule, largely at units that are not economic candidates for SCR retrofits. It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990. EPA MATS Regulatory Impact Analysis, 2011.

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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. States are ready to begin reducing toxic emissions from diesel trucks and transitioning to electric heavy-duty vehicles. Washington.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 1, 2022

There are grave concerns we at UCS have about this rule, and nearly 1,000 health professionals, scientists, and engineers in our Science Network agreed that this NO X rule should be strengthened to live up to the agency’s explicit commitments to climate, clean air, and environmental justice. Image: Freightliner ).

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2022

No one of them is transformative standing alone, but their cumulative impact will be substantially cleaner air and lower carbon emissions. EPA proposed an unexpectedly strong expansion of the existing rules governing interstate air pollution. In addition, it adds western states like California to the rule’s coverage.

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Legal Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Both the car and power plant regulations involve major portions of the economy, but that is a normal attribute of Clean Air Act regulations. EPA does not claim “virtually unlimited power to rewrite” the Clean Air Act. And both are involve large compliance costs, though again that isn’t unusual.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Both developments are good news for local air quality and the climate – and a reminder of California’s important national role in curbing pollution from transportation, the country’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Photo credit: Todd Cheney.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

EPA as a decision depriving EPA of an important tool to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. First Court did not eliminate the Agency’s ability to require greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reductions under section 111 or any other section of the Clean Air Act. Posted on July 5, 2022 by Robert B.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program provides $5 billion in grants to states, local governments, tribes, and territories to develop and implement ambitious plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollution. billion for competitive implementation grants.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This rule was a clear opportunity to exercise the Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act to promote the most advanced emissions reductions technology. The Clean Air Act is pretty clear on the question at hand, and the data is as clear as can be—California must get its waiver ASAP.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The Gruenspecht effect refers to an economist who in his Yale PHD thesis argued that the Clean Air Act can unintentionally make air pollution worse in the short run if car drivers keep their old cars longer because regulation raises the price of new cars (a regulation induced substitution effect).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

Million In Funding For Clean Water Infrastructure To Protect Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Delaware River Basin -- Brodhead Watershed Assn.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

By: Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 8, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching Clean Air Act rule intended to address the interstate transport of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from upwind to downwind states. See 76 Fed. 48208 (Aug. See David E.

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

Derailing Environmental Protection: Concerns Over Air and Water After the East Palestine, OH Derailment By Jacob Baverso The Department of Transportation recognizes rail shipment for hazardous materials as the safest method to move such materials over long distances. Like the air pollution, EPA is providing conflicting information.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2023

Moreover, in 2020, Pennsylvania recorded the highest amount of premature deaths per capita caused by air pollution in the entire country. Cutting climate pollution from the power sector would be a linchpin for cleaning up pollution across all economic sectors.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration proposed much-needed protections to improve oversight and reduce pollution from the nation’s network of natural gas pipelines today. On May 5, the U.S. 27 Released 1.1

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Any transporter of hazardous substances. Hazardous Materials designation under the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (CERCLA 306(a)) – As designated as a hazardous materials certain requirements related to transportation of such chemicals. Toxic Substances Control Act section 7 imminently hazardous chemical.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

EPA’s efforts to regulate vinyl chloride as a hazardous air pollutant under section 112 of the Clean Air Act also went on for more than a decade and was ultimately a big part of the reason why Congress overhauled that section of the statute in the 1990 amendments.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 24, 2022

At the same time that it issued the proposed rule, EPA also issued an “announcement” on environmental justice and transportation. What isn’t clear, however, is how that will enter into EPA’s standard-setting decision. It’s a brief document that talks about EPA’s overall strategy in addressing regulation. 2 for the brief discussion.).

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Failure to meet the deadline to submit both the conventional and unconventional oil and gas facility regulations means Pennsylvania is at risk of losing nearly $1 billion of federal transportation funding. “As Because these regulations are required under the Clean Air Act, failure to submit them in final form to U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Last week, EPA finalized its new rule imposing emission limits on new heavy trucks. The new regulation was clearly a massive undertaking. EPA’s formal announcement of the new rule is 1100 pages long. The accompanying summary of comments on the proposed rule and EPA’s responses is another 2000 pages.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Clean Air Act appropriating $2.25 An additional appropriation of $750 million is made for the same set of activities in ports located in nonattainment areas, as designated under Section 107 of the Clean Air Act. States, Indian tribes, and air pollution control agencies are also eligible for funding.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Congressional Review Act (CRA) provides a fast-track process for canceling regulations if they hit an ideological nerve or offend a powerful special interest. Congressional Republicans are busily trying use it to cancel environmental regulations.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The Clean Air Act (CAA) regulates smog, setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and PM. NAAQS because of pollutants emitted from Midwestern power plants. The interstate transport of air pollution is a longstanding problem. 2.5. ), mostly from fossil fuel consumption.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Transportation accounts for. of the Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to address this through emissions standards for air pollution from cars and trucks. 27 percent. of total United States greenhouse gas emissions, with passenger cars and light-duty trucks being the largest source.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. The updates would provide more comprehensive requirements to reduce climate and health-harming air pollution, including from hundreds of thousands of existing oil and gas sources nationwide.

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