Legal Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

Before making this finding, first had to offer a novel reading of the Clean Air Act (CAA). EPA now says that before it can regulate those emissions, it would first have to make a formal finding that they “cause or significantly contribute” to climate change. The statute doesn’t say that. It didn’t do any of those things.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

My name is Rachel Meyer and I am the Ohio River Valley Field Organizer for Moms Clean Air Force, a national community of over 1.5 million parents and caregivers united to protect our childrens health from air pollution and climate change. Today I represent our more than 105,000 PA members.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

EPA’s 2024 Rule Under section 111 of the Clean Air Act, EPA must establish standards of performance for certain categories of stationary sources that “cause[ ], or contribute[] significantly to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.”

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

EPA has proposed a novel reading of the Clean Air Act (CAA) that would foreclose any regulation of CO2 emissions from power plants. It empowers EPA to issue pollution control requirements covering new facilities in the industry. On its face, this seems like a questionable conclusion, given that the U.S.

Pollution Control

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

The Clean Water Act requires EPA to revise industry-wide wastewater treatment limits, called effluent limitations guidelines, to keep pace with innovations in pollution control technology. Technologies to treat produced water to a quality for safe discharge and reuse have become more effective and affordable.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 16, 2025

EPA is justifying this move by declaring that power plants—the nation’s largest stationary source of carbon emissions, responsible for a quarter of US heat-trapping emissions , on their own the sixth-largest emitter globally in 2022 —do not “contribute significantly” to climate change and thus do not merit regulation by EPA.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Specifically, while the Court did not ultimately rule out all possible interventions beyond direct pollution controls at individual sources, it did make clear that direct pollution controls were the clearest course, meaning that moving forward, EPA is likely to devise BSER based on things that can be applied “at or to” a polluting facility.

Clean Air Act

Law and Environment

MARCH 22, 2022

The Boston Air Pollution Control Commission has formally adopted its “Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance Phase 1 Regulations.” The Phase 1 regulations are really all about the “disclosure” side of BERDO.

Regulations

Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Air Pollution Control Commission has authority to suspend some or all of the requirements of BERDO 2.0 The ability to apply for a “Hardship Compliance Plan.”. Use of Renewable Energy Certificates as a compliance mechanism. An alternative compliance payment provision – the initial cost will be set at $234/ton of CO2!

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2025

Battery-electric trucks are one of the most cost-effective and consequential technologies we have to reduce pollution from vehicles. These trucks tend to be older models without modern pollution controls. Take the diesel “drayage” trucks that operate near ports and transfer cargo to distribution centers.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This federal funding could significantly reduce climate-changing methane pollution as well as smog-causing volatile organic compounds (VOC) and carcinogens like benzene. of the gas drilled in the United States, but generate 11% of the nation’s methane pollution from oil and gas drilling. DEP Must Apply By Oct.

Natural Gas

Acoel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The Commonwealth Court then entered a preliminary injunction enjoining the RGGI regulation, holding that the regulation’s auction of emissions allowances was a tax not legislatively authorized under the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act. The Shirley decision has several implications.

Greenhouse

MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Read More » Tags: Air , Climate Change , Commonwealth Court , Pennsylvania , Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection , Taxes Bowfin KeyCon Holdings, LLC vs. Pa. Dep’t of Env’t Prot. Env’t Quality Bd. 2023 WL 7171547, at *1 (Pa.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results [PaEN] -- Forbes Survey Lists Best Employers By State: No Natural Gas Companies Are On The List Of Top 97 Companies In PA; Sheetz Is #20 -- PA Solar Center Issues RFP For Solar Developers To Assist (..)

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

The report must detail the company’s “climate-related financial risk,” defined as: a material risk of harm to the company’s financial outcomes related to physical and transition risks of climate change. As discussed, the legal basis for California’s disclosure requirements differs from the SEC.

Law

Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. It’s a major step forward in protecting both public health and clean air.” Buildings are one of Colorado’s top five sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

By reducing air pollution, it would improve public health with 30,000 fewer respiratory hospital visits. “I I am vetoing, disapproving, and returning the Concurrent Resolution because Final Form Regulation 7-559 is a vital step for Pennsylvania to reduce carbon emissions and achieve our climate goals.

Fossil Fuels

Montrose

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

About Montrose: Montrose is an environmental services company that supports government and commercial organizations with a range of services, from air measurement and laboratory services to regulatory compliance, permitting, engineering, and remediation. (San EBI publishes Environmental Business Journal® and Climate Change Business Journal®.

2019

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Folks who dealt with contaminated water and air pollution and suffered severe health consequences that they believed were a result of fracking happening near their homes.” “Now, The company has also been criminally charged with violations of the Air Pollution Control Act in Washington County.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

The information may assist states and local air pollution control agencies, Tribal authorities, and regulated entities in their consideration of technologies and measures that may be implemented to reduce GHG emissions from stationary combustion turbines.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Million Initiative To Electrify Truck Fleets For Cleaner Air; Awards $1.7 7 Webinar On Where Solar Energy And Farming Meet [PaEN] -- Dec. 5 Penn State EarthTalk Webinar On Empowering Native Communities With Renewable Energy. PaEN] -- DCNR: Laurel Run Dam Removal Underway In Plains Twp., PaEN] -- AP: U.S.

Conservation

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

c); CEQA Guidelines, 15250, 15251), and under special provisions of CEQA that apply specifically to regulations CARB promulgates to set performance standards and to require the installation of pollution control equipment[.] Resources Code, 21080.5(c); Citing to the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006; and to Pub.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. Now that there is a desperate need to slash global warming emissions worldwide to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, it is critical to rapidly phase out the use of all fossil fuels.

2013

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Climate Change Mitigation. The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. A Few Notable Vetoes.

2021

Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

That theme continues throughout, from the Prevention of Significant Deterioration program , which helps protect attainment areas from pollution caused by new sources, to ongoing monitoring requirements for attainment areas. Thus, the CAA sets a floor for regulation of air pollution, not a ceiling.

Regulations

Law and Environment

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The Air Pollution Control Commission will later hold a “formal” public comment period at a time TBD. The rationale for this narrow focus is that the City wants these regulations in place promptly, in time for reporting in Q2 2022. The “informal” public comment period on the draft regulations will remain open until January 14.

Pollution Control

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

GHG Emissions by Sector Climate changes pollution and pollution changes climate Another reason to look at the global warming impacts of refineries from a health perspective is that there is an important link between global warming and local pollution. See the pie charts below. have a diameter of 2.5

Ground-Level Ozone

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. Cars and trucks are a lot cleaner than when I was growing up.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

“Cost-effective actions like reducing methane leaks from gas wells and participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative will continue to improve Pennsylvania’s air for years to come. Today’s ruling undercuts good-faith efforts to fight climate change and protect clean air but that does not mean we will stop fighting.

Carbon Dioxide

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Substantial evidence supported the County’s decision not to recirculate the DEIR after adding information to the FEIR about the Project’s impact to climate change. Recirculation Not Required. Specifically, while the DEIR was being circulated, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Center for Biological Diversity v.

Renewable Energy

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The CAA expressly forbids pollution from one state “significantly contributing” to another state’s nonattainment of its air quality standards, and in recent years, the EPA has promulgated rules using regional cap-and-trade programs to control the interstate transport of smog precursors from power plants. In 2012, in. Michigan v.

Ozone

Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

2017

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

2017

Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9

2013

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9

2013

Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9

2013

Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9

2013