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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Law and Environment

APRIL 5, 2024

Massachusetts has become the first state to require analysis of cumulative impacts for certain air quality permits in or near communities with environmental justice (EJ) populations.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2022

On Monday, environmental-justice advocates filed a petition drafted by two of our amazing UCLA Environmental Law Clinic students, Sarah Repko and Monica Heger, opening litigation to improve monitoring of petroleum refineries in Southern California. California, which is the third-largest refiner of crude oil in the U.S., Download as PDF.

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MGKF Law

AUGUST 2, 2023

The panel’s reasoning focused on a close statutory reading of §7410 of the CAA, which prevents EPA from approving any SIP revision that would “interfere with any applicable requirement for attainment and reasonable further progress” in reaching the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (“NAAQS”).

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 4, 2021

not Massachusetts) and to the one nearly each fireworks control law are regulating for public safety by a state fire marshall for “firework shooters, explosive blasters, explosive manufacturing, and explosive sales.” Congress has legislated the treatment of air quality data influenced by exceptional events, which includes fireworks.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Air pollution is harmful to human health as it exacerbates and causes an increase in health issues, like respiratory illnesses. The poor air quality—juxtaposed with the COP28 climate negotiations underway—made the need for action abundantly clear. I attended the climate conference as part of the UCLA Law delegation.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2023

In addition to the unequal impacts of air pollution from highways, people of color and people in poverty are less likely to have access to private transportation than other groups, meaning that highway improvements themselves can be of differential benefit. appeared first on Legal Planet.

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NRDC

JANUARY 4, 2024

After decades of violating state environmental law to benefit its largest shipping customer, the Port of Los Angeles must take long-overdue measures to protect the health and well-being of residents and workers from diesel exhaust and other air pollutants, the.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A 2021 Mountain State Spotlight and ProPublica story detailed how largely Black … Continue reading A Black community in West Virginia sues the EPA to spur action on toxic air pollution

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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. It was only once that shift was made that we could begin to think of contaminated rivers, smog, and clearcutting as part of the same body of law. City of Detroit.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

Burning gas and coal leads to carbon dioxide emissions and air pollutants. Air pollutants contribute to all of the leading causes of death, such as heart disease, strokes, cancer, and respiratory illness. Now we have increasing evidence air pollution contributes to dementia as well.

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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 13956 (Mar.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 8, 2023

People stay inside and use their air conditioners to stay cool and filter out the air pollution. We get the side benefit of reduced conventional air pollution, whether from traditional stack emissions or from wildfires. (And And so we have a vicious cycle. Climate change makes wildfires worse. How did that happen?

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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. Settlements like this serve notice to companies that they must follow the law to keep workers and neighbors healthy and safe.”

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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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Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

Building electrification requirements – at times called “natural gas bans,” including on this blog – are subject to a complicated interplay of federal, state and local law, and many local governments have been found or determined themselves to be preempted from one or more approaches.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The country meets seven of the nine criteria, including an extensive low-lying coastline, areas prone to natural disasters, areas susceptible to drought and desertification, and urban areas with high air pollution. Conclusions.

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Acoel

AUGUST 14, 2023

My presentation was titled: Environmental Disasters that Led to Environmental Laws. This presentation reminded me of how our environmental laws in this country have been enacted. This presentation reminded me of how our environmental laws in this country have been enacted. appeared first on ACOEL.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

According to CAA § 116, “[n]othing in this chapter shall preclude or deny the right of any State or political subdivision thereof to adopt or enforce (1) any standard or limitation respecting emissions of air pollutants or (2) any requirement respecting control or abatement of air pollution[.]”

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NRDC

JULY 31, 2023

The law will target the emissions and other air pollution that come through people’s windows from nearby pizza restaurants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Municipal zoning laws, meanwhile, allowed companies to build power plants and other industrial facilities in those same neighborhoods. First, there’s air pollution. Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

According to scholar and advocate Dr. Robert Bullard, “environmental justice embraces the principle that all people and communities have a right to equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.” This bill aims to alleviate these disproportionate exposures and begin to remedy decades of systemic harm.

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Environment, Law, and History

APRIL 29, 2022

The recently published open-access book, Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook , edited by Anna-Katharina Wöbse and Patrick Kupper (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021), has a number of law-related chapters.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A new Sabin Center report, Cities Climate Law: A Legal Framework for Local Action in the U.S. , by Amy Turner and Michael Burger, offers a comprehensive guide for local law- and policy-makers in developing climate programs that consider and comport with federal and state law.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Steel Edgar Thomson Plant is an iron and steel making facility with a history of noncompliance with air pollution regulations and a major source of air pollution in Allegheny County. EPA’s order directs ACHD to ensure that this Title V permit has air quality monitoring and testing requirements sufficient to assure U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If passed, this new law would finally put an end to the millions of tonnes of coal – the world’s dirtiest and deadliest fossil fuel – that are shipped overseas from Canada’ west coast every year. Air pollutants from coal plants are linked to chronic heart and respiratory disease, and a host of acute ailments.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

The closest we’ve ever come to a carbon tax is a limited fee on methane emissions under the new IRA law. It would provide an incentive for cutting carbon emissions, with the byproduct of cutting air pollution everywhere. State law and federal bonding requirements have not proved equal to the task of clean up.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Air pollution impacts every aspect of our lives, especially health. We created this list of the top 10 air quality influencers to follow to help keep you informed on a variety of environmental topics. government to provide the official figures on premature deaths caused by air pollution.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Earlier this month, Judge William Young dismissed for lack of standing claims brought by the Conservation Law Foundation alleging that bus companies violated anti-idling regulations. The post Establishing Standing in Citizen Suits Under the Clean Air Act: Breathing Polluted Air May Not Suffice first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

et al. ) This blog post explores how the citizens in Kobe, a city in west Japan, attempted to stop the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants through administrative and civil law actions. Those rights are established through case law and frequently invoked in environmental pollution cases. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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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. Community members quickly came together and a local grassroots group, Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP), began to sound the alarm.

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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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Legal Planet

JANUARY 4, 2023

Cutting fossil fuels out of new buildings will reduce indoor air pollution , help prevent natural-gas explosions and leaks , and contribute to the fight against climate change, which is already impacting Los Angeles residents—especially low-income and non-White people. And getting buildings to use electric appliances isn’t enough.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

UCLA Professor of Law William Boyd. William Boyd is Professor of Law and Michael J. Klein Chair in Law at UCLA Law, with a joint appointment as Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability ; Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA Law. UCLA Professor of Law Alex Wang.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

Gas stoves are a significant driver of childhood asthma , leaking methane even while turned off and releasing as much nationwide climate pollution each year as 500,000 cars. Furnaces and water heaters are even bigger polluters, with major contributions to outdoor air pollution in the Bay Area. Richard Trumka Jr.,

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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. Water pollution.

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Dario Piselli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In recent years, and with growing intensity since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the concept of environmental health has emerged as a fundamental prism through which to analyse the complex interplay between global health and environmental law.

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