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A Design Flaw in the Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

The Clean Air Act has two kinds of standards. It sounds like having two kinds of standards should improve air quality more than a single standard. The drafters of the Clean Air Act may well have lacked confidence in the air quality standards and state plans as a mechanism, so they may have been hedging their bets.

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EPA, Utah Settle with Oil and Gas Companies for Clean Air Act Violations

Environment + Energy Leader

The post EPA, Utah Settle with Oil and Gas Companies for Clean Air Act Violations appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. The EPA has settled with two oil and gas companies regarding pollution violations in Utah.

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How the Clean Air Act lets closed coal plants keep polluting for years

Environmental News Bits

Clean Air Act. But the facility’s legacy of smog pollution continued long after … Continue reading How the Clean Air Act lets closed coal plants keep polluting for years

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EPA, Justice Department Make Record Settlement with BP over Hazardous Emissions

Environment + Energy Leader

The settlement includes the largest civil penalty in a stationary source settlement since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970.

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EPA Announces $1.35 Million Penalty, Settlement With Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Over Clean Air Act Violations

PA Environment Daily

and numerous affiliated companies (collectively, GWRSI) for violation of Clean Air Act (CAA) locomotive regulations. The settlement is expected to reduce tons of nitrogen oxide and particulate matter pollution and improve air quality where their trains operate.”

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Local Government Associations File Brief to the Supreme Court in Support of EPA’s Clean Air Act Authority

Law Columbia

The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA).

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US EPA proposed Clean Air Act endangerment finding targets aviation fuel

Environmental News Bits

On October 17, 2022, the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed finding that lead air pollution may reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health and welfare within the meaning of Section 231(a) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C.