Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Understanding the Endangerment Finding Two requirements must be met before a substance can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. First, it has to qualify as an air pollutant. The Clean Air Act defines an air pollutant to be any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any precursor chemicals.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

4 - Repurposing Underutilized Lands For Energy - Marginal Farmlands, Abandoned Mine Sites, Brownfields [PaEN] -- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Highlights Upcoming Events, Programs In November -- PA Resources Council To Hold Nov. 12 [PaEN] -- PA Assn. . -- PA Forestry Assn. 138th Annual Symposium - What Makes A Healthy Forest; Awards Program Nov.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Kober [PaEN] -- Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Update: Industrial Shale Gas Development In Tioga State Forest Prioritizes Industry Profit Over Constitutional Mandate To Preserve, Protect State Forest Land s [PaEN] -- EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

.] -- The Allegheny Front: Advice From A Youth Climate Organizer; Preview Of Pittsburgh Youth Climate Summit -- StateCollege.com Guest Essay: Youth Know The Direction America Should Take - Im Listening - By Peter Buck, Director of Education At Penn State Sustainability -- Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3

Conservation

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. NRDC and other groups want the U.S. Download as PDF

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Data Center, The Countrys Largest Natural Gas Power Plant [ PDF of Article ] -- TECfusions Unveils Massive 1,400-Acre Data Center Project With 3 Gigawatts Of Natural Gas-Fired Power Generation In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- DEP Issues Air Quality Permit For Nova Energy LLC Cryptocurrency Data Center In Venango County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments (..)

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 7624 ) 2024 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 254 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Hilcorp Energy Company For Federal, State Clean Air Act Violations [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Dec.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2025

“Health-harming leaks are preventable with diligent monitoring and other standards and practices outlined in the EPA’s recent Clean Air Act methane pollution rule. “We We are greatly disappointed, therefore, that the EPA has moved to push back the date when operators must put these critical pollution safeguards in place.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2025

Bulk Petroleum Facility: DEP invites comments on an Air Quality Plan Approval for a bulk petroleum facility at the Minit Mart New Castle Facility located in the City of New Castle, Lawrence County. ( Greene County. ( Washington County. Received Sept. 5, 2023, Issued Sept. 18, 2025 (?). ( Greene County. ( Lycoming County. (

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

This funding includes repeal of the provisions in the federal Clean Air Act making funding available for Pennsylvanias MERP conventional oil and gas well plugging program. Earlier Action The MERP's waste emissions charge is estimated to raise $7.2

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

Clean Air Act. In public health terms, what makes air pollution distinctive is the millions of people exposes to common pollutants such as particulates and smog. Comprehensive Emergency Response and Cleanup Act (CERCLA ). Provides for cleanup of hazardous waste sites.

Law

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. Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANC) v. Michigan v.

Clean Air Act

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. And there’s no time to waste. Image: Freightliner ). Not waiting for industry to get their way.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

May 11, the Environmental Integrity Project and Clean Air Council filed a federal lawsuit against the Shell Petrochemical Plant for repeatedly violating permitted air pollution limits from a massive new plastics production plant in Beaver County, which opened last year. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2024

On April 12, 2024, the Shell Petrochemical Plant requested the Department of Environmental Protection to classify the composition and flow rate of gases going to be burned off at flares and the air pollution sources and pollution control equipment operating at the Beaver County facility confidential business information.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2023

On May 4, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it will receive public comments and host a May 17 in-person public hearing regarding a plan approval application for Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT III) requirements for Covanta Delaware Valley, LP, a waste to energy facility in the City of Chester, Delaware County.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

On September 3, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it will receive public comments and host a virtual public hearing regarding a Title V/State Operating Permit renewal request for Covanta Delaware Valley, LP, a waste to energy facility in the City of Chester, Delaware County.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Because these regulations are required under the Clean Air Act, failure to submit them in final form to U.S. In fact, 84 municipalities are designated by DEP as “waste facilities” because of the road dumping of conventional drilling wastewater. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

Regulations

Acoel

JULY 30, 2021

The bill would require the EPA to designate PFAS and related PFOA compounds as hazardous substances under CERCLA within one year of the Act’s enactment. Within 180 days after enactment, the EPA must list PFAS as a hazardous air pollutant under the Clean Air Act (CAA).

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

On November 15, 2022, Erie Coke Corporation, along with the plant superintendent, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on among other charges, violation of the Clean Air Act. Such hazardous air pollutants were released directly into the air to avoid the plant’s environmental monitoring system.

Clean Air Act

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Commercial Waste : Any waste material produced as a byproduct of commercial or industrial activity. Filtration : Removing solid waste and material from water in the process of wastewater treatment. As it is a waste, it serves no purpose on its own. Indoor air is anything contained with a building.

Government

Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

If a PRP sent some amount of the hazardous waste found at the site, that party is liable. Waste management and wastewater treatment facilities. Toxic Substances Control Act section 7 imminently hazardous chemical. Furthermore, CERCLA liability extends to all “potentially responsible parties” (PRPs). PFOA and/or PFOS processors.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

2017

Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites.

Fossil Fuels

Acoel

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion pounds of hazardous waste properly treated, minimized or disposed; cleanup commitments worth $1.9 One such tool is EPA’s Geospatial Measurement of Air Pollution (“GMAP”) mobile laboratory. Certainly 2022 will bring more in the way of EPA enforcement under the Clean Air Act and other programs.

Clean Air Act

Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The legislature put two provisions in the Appropriations Act of 2023 (House Bill 259) to prevent state agencies from adopting rules intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the state. Other air quality provisions expedite permitting and construction of new or expanded sources of air pollutants.

2023

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

“PHMSA has a powerful opportunity to protect communities across the country, including those disproportionately impacted by polluting infrastructure, while delivering on the administration’s climate goals,” added Murphy. All while creating jobs and stopping wasteful emissions.” 27 Released 1.1

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

18 to 24; First Violations Noted At New Well Plugging Sites [PaEN] -- Warren Times: Feud Between Grant Twp., 18 to 24; First Violations Noted At New Well Plugging Sites [PaEN] -- Warren Times: Feud Between Grant Twp.,

Conservation

Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Million tons/yr of waste: 7,600 industrial, 250 municipal, 25 hazardous. 1,900 landfills, 21 for hazardous waste. 100 nuclear reactors; 2,000 tons/yr nuclear waste. For example, most states now have optional “lookup tables” to look up the action trigger concentrations for groundwater and soils related to hazardous waste sites.

Clean Water Act

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. The bill now heads to the U.S.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Donora Smog Disaster of 1948 is perhaps the most infamous air pollution event in American history and it happened in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Visit the Group Against Smog & Pollution website for more information on air pollution and environmental health issues in Western Pennsylvania.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The environmental justice movement began with a focus on neighborhood struggles against toxic waste facilities and other local pollution sources. The most powerful tool for assisting those communities, however, may be the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

It creates extensive infrastructure in multiple stages and sites, and produces large amounts of liquid and solid waste. And also a disposing of the waste stream. Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. So the first is equity.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

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

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. innovation and manufacturing of critical new technologies, all while delivering significant economic benefits through increased recovery of wasted gas. million homes for the winter.

Natural Gas

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company first attracted global attention when it was caught dumping 3,000 tons of toxic mercury-laden waste in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, that originated at a PVC plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. James successfully sued to subject Formosa to an environmental review over the 800 tons of toxic air pollutants as well as the 13.6

2016

Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Evaluate whether PFAS Compounds should be Designated “Hazardous Air Pollutants” under the Clean Air Act. The Clean Air Act requires EPA to regulate emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), which are. A HAP designation will trigger strict control over PFAS air emissions.

Regulations