PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

On May 8, the PJM Interconnection issued a statement on the US Environmental Protection Agency's final rule setting New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and its potential impact on electric grid reliability. EPA, individual states and affected stakeholders as this process continues.” Comitta, Sen.

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MGKF Law

JUNE 30, 2022

EPA , the Supreme Court limited the authority of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce greenhouse gases by setting emission guidelines for existing power plants, characterizing the energy generation shifting strategy proposed in the Clean Power Plan (CPP) as an overreach of the agency’s power.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency issued for public input a draft white paper on control techniques and measures that could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new stationary combustion turbines. electricity generation in future years, primarily use natural gas to create electricity. On April 21, the U.S.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on April 26, 2021 that it is formally reconsidering the Trump Administration’s withdrawal of a waiver of preemption that previously allowed California to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cars and light trucks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Furthermore, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provided a strong and clear affirmation of the appropriateness of Treasury’s proposed approach in light of EPA’s long-standing interpretation and implementation of the referenced lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions definition.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

But in this blog post, I unpack an aspect of the decision where I think it was more of a mixed bag: the court’s treatment of the international air pollution provision of the Clean Air Act, Section 115. The court correctly noted that, under the Supreme Court’s holding in American Electric Power v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The legislature put two provisions in the Appropriations Act of 2023 (House Bill 259) to prevent state agencies from adopting rules intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the state. Other air quality provisions expedite permitting and construction of new or expanded sources of air pollutants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently proposed new fuel economy standards that, together with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) greenhouse gas emissions standards , are meant to continue to reduce fuel use from new passenger vehicles.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

The proposal requires companies to report information related to “Scope 1” direct carbon emissions (think fuel use and greenhouse gases), “Scope 2” indirect carbon emissions (e.g., purchased energy and electricity), and for some companies to report on information related to “Scope 3” carbon emissions (i.e.,

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

This post is the third in a series of blogs that address specific legal features of the rule: Part One offered a summary of the final rule, and delved into the materiality threshold that was added throughout the rule, including for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosure.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Interior (DOI), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—to implement the IRA. Similarly, other agencies have made significant progress towards implementing the IRA programs they administer.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 30, 2021

If there was any question that the judiciary was a coequal and political branch of government, last Friday after President Biden was wheels up to attend the COP26 Glasgow climate conference, the Supreme Court agreed to review the Environmental Protections Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

And while we’ve begun to transition away from oil and gas for our cars and electricity, the oil and gas industry has responded by investing its vast financial resources in a new source of demand for their products: new production for plastic materials and packaging. By 2030, plastic production will contribute 1.3

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in the near-term. EDF said PHMSA should continue to expand protective standards for gathering line management to ensure greater safety and environmental protection. 27 Released 1.1

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

Additionally, the executive order articulated a new federal policy of listening to science , prioritizing environmental justice, improving public health, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and bolstering climate resilience. The Biden administration is now poised to wield that tool to make a meaningful dent in greenhouse gas pollution.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Andrew Wheeler, acting EPA administrator. has three ostensible goals: energy independence, job creation, and environmental protection. Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule. billion in compliance costs, while still reducing greenhouse gas production by the energy sector. President Trump’s. America First Energy Plan”.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP) is a regional blueprint prepared by the SCAQMD for achieving the standards. One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 4, 2017

While expressing confidence in the court system to uphold the environmental protections EPA created during her tenure, McCarthy also shared her frustrations that so much progress “feels up for grabs.” The anticipated Clean Power Plan repeal-and-replace scheme will, of course, need to pass muster before the courts. electricity.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In particular, California and the nine states that comprise the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) have taken strong action to fill the void left by Trump’s defection from Paris. In the landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2016 (AB32), California established the goal of limiting statewide GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. States, Electricity Providers Allowed to Intervene in Case Concerning Management of Glen Canyon Dam.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. If finalized, these critical, commonsense standards will protect workers and communities, maintain and create high-quality, union-friendly jobs, and promote U.S.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. Protect Our Aquifer v.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. s challenge to the constitutionality of the linkage between California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program and Quebec trading program. United States v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

First, the court said the cities’ novel theories of liability based on the defendants’ sales of their product did not differentiate their claims from earlier transboundary pollution suits in which the Supreme Court ( American Electric Power Co. Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp. After the D.C.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Ahead of COP, ESA issued a statement calling on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions that limits rising temperatures to 1.5? EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Murray Energy Corp. McCarthy , No.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The Clean Air Act provision at issue authorizes small refineries to petition EPA “for an extension of the exemption … for the reason of disproportionate economic hardship.” ruled in 2019 that BLM had failed to adequately assess the potential impacts of greenhouse gas emissions for certain oil and gas leases in Wyoming.

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

The full Senate narrowly voted to confirm Janet McCabe as the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. will halve its greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels. FERC – Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and Electric System Reliability – Technical Conference (June 1 & 2). He signed it into law.

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

Sean Casten (D-IL) ‘s Climate Risk Disclosure Act ( H.R. This bill requires publicly listed companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and how climate change will impact their businesses to the Securities and Exchange Commission. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. Justice Dept.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency on January 19, 2021, Renewable Fuels Association moved to voluntarily dismiss its petitions for review challenging the exemptions in the Tenth Circuit and the D.C. The court also rejected claims under the National Forest Management Act, the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. Chao , No.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Much of the discussion of climatology in public discourse concerns anthropogenic climate change - the contribution of human activity to such events as carbon particles, greenhouse gases, and their effects such as the Greenhouse Effect and coral bleaching. As atmospheric particles increase, so does air density. Greenhouse Gases.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2019 rule setting renewable fuel volumes in the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard Program. Oatly Group AB , No.

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