PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The Center for Coalfield Justice is partnering with the Donora Historical Society and Smog Museum to host an October 11 webinar to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Donora smog, an event that led to the creation of the state Air Pollution Control Act and the federal Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

The final amendments to the air toxics standards for ethylene oxide commercial sterilization facilities put in place the strongest measures in U.S. Through the installation of proven and achievable air pollution controls, commercial sterilizers will reduce emissions by more than 90%.

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Environment, Law, and History

JANUARY 12, 2023

Farber focuses on US Supreme Court decisions, finding its earliest uses of "air pollution" and "water pollution" and references to wilderness as something worthy of preservation in decisions from the 1960s. Wolfe, Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District vehicle, Burbank, 1947-1950?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold a meeting on November 15 to consider these bills and resolutions-- -- Abrigating California Heavy-Duty Truck Air Reg.:

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

The total civil penalty assessments include $350,000 for air quality violations, which is the maximum civil penalty assessment allowable under the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act, and $764,000 pursuant to Pennsylvania’s oil and gas and solid waste laws.

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Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

This week’s advancements offer two new models for local governments looking to require or promote building electrification: air pollution and land use regulation. The New York City bill also offers a useful model for using air pollution control authority to regulate building emissions.

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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.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 12, 2022

The agency’s External Civil Rights Compliance Office will investigate both the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality’s handling of its air pollution control program and whether the Louisiana … Continue reading EPA launches civil rights inquiry into Louisiana agencies.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

discussing the ways in which local air districts can take action to end harmful air pollution from building appliances. Reducing appliance emissions is a critical step on the path to healthy air.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

The 2022 National Ambient Air Monitoring Conference , sponsored by EPA in conjunction with the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies and the National Association of Clean Air Agencies will be held in Pittsburgh August 22-25.

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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.

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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!

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Shell’s air quality plan approval states that the facility’s emissions of VOCs shall not equal or exceed 516.2 This exceedance is a violation of Shell’s plan approvals ( PA-04-00740A , PA-04-00740B , and PA-04-00740C ) and the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act and regulations. tons of VOCs in a 12-month period.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The project was started in 2019 and supported by the California Climate Investments (CCI) initiative, in conjunction with the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control … Continue reading Frito-Lay transforms California facility into showcase for sustainability

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MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Bowfin KeyCon Holdings, LLC vs. Pa. Dep’t of Env’t Prot. Env’t Quality Bd. 2023 WL 7171547, at *1 (Pa.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2023

Shell exceeded its rolling 12-month total emission limitations for volatile organic compounds (VOC) beginning in October 2022 through April 2023, carbon monoxide (CO) from February through March 2023, Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) from December 2022 through April 2023, and Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAP) from December 2022 through April 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The Donora Smog Disaster of 1948 in Washington County is perhaps the most infamous air pollution event in American history.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. But this could only have a contributing factor. Probably the most obvious cause was fracking.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2024

. -- Failed to prevent and control air pollution. -- Failed to implement the gas control and monitoring plan. -- Failed to maintain a uniform intermediate cover that prevents odors. -- Failed to properly conduct enhanced surface monitoring on intermediate slopes.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. Massachusetts made plain that emissions of carbon dioxide qualify as air pollution subject to regulation under the Act.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- Range Resources-Appalachia, LLC - Godwin George Shale Gas Well Site: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval to continue operation of multiple air pollution sources at the well pad located in Cross Roads Borough, Washington County. ( Tioga County. ( Bucks County. ( Clinton County. ( Tioga County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2022

If built, the Wyalusing plant would have been allowed to emit more than a million tons of climate-polluting greenhouse gasses every year, as well as hundreds of tons of noxious air pollutants that would have impacted the local community. Click Here for a copy of the settlement.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

That rule, which will be finalized later this year, currently proposes a requirement that gas companies regularly monitor pollution from all gas wells until they are successfully plugged. This funding gives gas drilling companies the opportunity to plug wells before they are required to monitor their air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2022

Portable hydrogen sulfide monitors were deployed around the impacted areas to provide important data. -- Added a new section to the county’s Air Pollution Control Regulations, the Mon Valley Air Pollution Episode Rule. Posted: August 15, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2024

. - Tioga Compressor Station: DEP is inviting comments on Air Quality Plan Approval for installation of air pollution control equipment to comply with RACT III requirements for the station located in Farmington Twp., Tioga County. ( PA Bulletin, page 34 ) -- ECC Windsor, Inc. Greene County. ( Armstrong County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Beginning in the 2026 ozone season, EPA is setting enforceable NOX emissions control requirements for certain sources at existing and new industrial facilities that have significant impacts on downwind air quality and the ability to install cost-effective pollution controls.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2023

Steel for Article XXI Air Pollution Control violations (and as calculated in accordance with the 2019 Settlement Agreement and Order) that occurred at the Clairton Coke (Coal) Works during the second quarter of 2022. On March 15, the Allegheny County Health Department issued $ 307,800 in stipulated penalties against U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

DEP said it has the statutory authority in the 1995 law that created the agency, the state Air Pollution Control Act and other laws to establish grant and funding programs to implement the Plan. Pennsylvania’s Climate Action Priority Plan is available online.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Now, SB 1137 protects communities by establishing a setback distance of 3,200 feet for homes, schools, parks, or businesses open to the public from new wells, and requires comprehensive pollution controls for existing oil wells within the setback zone.

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Breezometer

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District urged people with heart or lung disease to follow doctors’ advice for dealing with episodes of particulate exposure. ” - - Fresnobee. How Dust Storms Confuse Air Quality Reports. LANCASTER, Calif. And if one were to look at only PM 2.5

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

On September 14, the Clean Air Council appealed an effort by Pennsylvania to resurrect a defunct air pollution control permit that would allow construction of a large gas-fired power plant proposed for Robinson Township. Click Here for a copy of the notice of appeal.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

Joe fought tirelessly to raise awareness on urban air pollution in the1980’s by establishing and distributing a daily regional air quality index report that is still used today. And in the early 2000’s when fracking was falsely seen as transitional energy, Joe purposely grew the legal team to oppose natural gas expansion.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

The SEC’s regime is an investor protection program, and nowhere in the SEC’s rule does a stated goal of pollution control or GHG emission reduction appear. California has a history as a “first mover” on environmental issues, in part due to the state’s pressing need for pollution controls.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

Today’s settlement requires GWRSI to bring its fleet of locomotives into compliance with Clean Air Act pollution control requirements,” said Acting Assistant Administrator Larry Starfield of EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 25, 2021

For instance, EPA has required pollution controls that dramatically slash emissions of carbon monoxide from vehicles. We may know that air pollution helps cause deaths from respiratory conditions, but it’s more difficult to estimate the number. This has become controversial recently. A: This can be very tricky.

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