PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2022

On August 15, the Allegheny County Health Department released an Air Quality Annual Review covering accomplishments in 2021. Bogen wrote this introduction to the report-- In 2021, ACHD expanded and implemented new technology and programs and completed some long-term studies that will inform our future. Dr. Debra L.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Which means the consequences of these polluters unabashedly continuing to pollute aren’t just severe—they’re compounding. The IRA gave us effective tools for cleaning up the power sector through dedicated support for the rapid and widescale deployment of renewable resources and the technologies that support them.

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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. Visit DEP’s Priority Climate Action Plan webpage for more information.

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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.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere.

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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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Clean Air Act Nitrogen Oxides Ozone Pollution Control 73

Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

First, the agency needs to figure out which changes in the power sector were due to new technologies, other regulations, or market shifts. This would be especially challenging for the mercury rule, according to EPA, “because the rule regulates hundreds of units within a complex, interdependent, and dynamic economic sector.”

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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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Air Pollution Pollution Control Government Technology 98

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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Air Pollution 2011 Clean Air Act Nitrogen Oxides 40

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

The draft white paper presents information on the performance of state-of-the-art combustion turbine technologies and describes additional opportunities for GHG emission cuts. States and the public may also find the white paper useful to inform state-level actions to combat climate change and individual permitting considerations.

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Natural Gas Electricity Clean Air Act Pollution Control 40

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2022

This regulation adopts reasonably available control technology requirements and RACT emission limits for oil and natural gas sources of volatile organic compounds. This regulation, which is a key part of DEP’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Commonwealth, has been in development since early 2019.

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Regulations Natural Gas Pollution Control Air Pollution 98

Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

Units with existing advanced NOx controls must optimize their utilization by 2023. In 2020, sources in both the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) NOX annual program and the A(cid) R(ain) P(rogram) together emitted 0.78 million tons, a reduction of 5.1 million tons, or 87 percent, from 1995 levels. Eugene M.

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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

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

However, goods movement through the Ports is a major source of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in the L.A. The South Coast Air Quality Management District has reported that the Ports are “the single largest fixed source of air pollution in Southern California.”

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Air Pollution 2030 Greenhouse Fossil Fuels 147

Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Clean Air Act appropriating $2.25 billion for a competitive grant and rebate program for the purpose of “purchas[ing] or install[ing] zero-emissions port equipment or technology” at ports. States, Indian tribes, and air pollution control agencies are also eligible for funding. Second, $11.97 Second, $11.97

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2026 Clean Air Act Air Pollution Greenhouse 117

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.

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Montrose

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

“In what is widely regarded as a stable market, a number of companies exceeded the norms of low single-digit growth with double-digit growth or ambitious ventures into new practice areas or technology development,” said Grant Ferrier, president of Environmental Business International Inc. publisher of Environmental Business Journal.

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2019 Pollution Control Air Pollution Waste 40

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

EPA’s final rule leverages the latest cost-effective, innovative technologies and proven solutions to prevent an estimated 58 million tons of methane emissions from 2024 to 2038, the equivalent of 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide – nearly as much as all the carbon dioxide emitted by the power sector in 2021.

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Regulations Air Pollution Natural Gas Carbon Dioxide 112

Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards. Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. The history of these pollution standards is quite distinctive. Congress adjusted the standards twice.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

The 4 big ones are the 1972 Clean Water Act , the 1970 Clean Air Act , the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act , and 2 hazardous waste laws having the acronyms CERCLA and RCRA, which I will explain later. Through this law, water pollution is managed by controlling wastewater discharges. Each law has thousands of regulations.

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 27, 2023

Achieving that standard was thought to be nearly impossible when Congress created this mandate, but the mandate forced the car companies to make technological breakthroughs with catalytic converters. Note that the standard is set in terms of pollution per mile rather than pollution per gallon. gpm, effective in 1994.

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Nitrogen Oxides Clean Air Act Pollution Control 2004 52

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

Ramamurthy also said the final regulation does not change the substance of how Reasonably Available Control Technology requirements are set for unconventional and conventional oil and gas facilities. It is applied equally to both, not making it a substantively different rulemaking.

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Regulations Radiation Ozone Pollution Control 52

Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Section 111 of the Clean Air Act authorizes EPA to address air pollution from both new and existing sources if the pollutant endangers public health or welfare. EPA ) held that CO2 and other greenhouse gasses meet the definition of an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act. The West Virginia v.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2022

Ramamurthy also said the final regulation does not change the substance of how Reasonably Available Control Technology requirements are set for unconventional and conventional oil and gas facilities. It is applied equally to both, not making it a substantively different rulemaking.

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Regulations Radiation Ozone Pollution Control 52

Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2019, EPA issued the Affordable Clean Energy rule , repealing the Clean Power Plan on the basis that EPA only had the narrow authority to base standards on technologies that could be applied directly “to or at” individual power plants, rather than strategies that involve broader shifts in power sources (so-called “beyond the fenceline” measures).

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Climate Change Clean Air Act Air Pollution Paris Agreement 162

Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In its legislative findings, which remain in air quality statutes today , Congress justified air pollution regulation because “the growth of the amount and complexity of air pollution brought about by urbanization, industrial development, and the increasing use of motor vehicles, has resulted in mounting dangers to the public health and welfare.”

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Clean Air Act Air Pollution Climate Change Regulations 55

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. Gas stoves, which are in 38 percent of US households, not only emit methane, but also toxic pollutants besides NO2 that are associated with respiratory ailments and cancer.

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