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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Regulations Ozone Air Pollution Clean Air Act 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

While the agency has failed to update the rule as required under the Clean Air Act, last year, EPA identified 23 “elevated cancer risk” commercial sterilizers and is currently working to inform communities and work with state regulators and the facilities to decrease emissions. What can be done?

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2016 Regulations Clean Air Act Ozone 209

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. grams per mile (gpm) for NOx. gpm NOx standard.

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Ground-Level Ozone Pollution Control Clean Air Act Ozone 212

Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

I named the Priority Pollutants a moment ago, which are 129 chemicals of interest under the Clean Water Act, RCRA, one of two federal laws governing hazardous wastes has several hundred “Appendix IX” groundwater monitoring compounds. Clean Water Act. The Clean Air Act.

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Clean Water Act Waste Clean Air Act Regulations 52

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. The brief is available here.

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Clean Air Act Air Pollution Climate Change Regulations 55

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In an unpublished judgment, the court rejected the petitioners’ other NEPA arguments regarding project design and capacity and cumulative ozone impacts. Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , No. 20-1045 (D.C. 3, 2021); Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v. Rhode Island v.

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2021 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Fossil Fuels 40

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This can include individuals from boundary organizations, government, professional societies, academia, industry, nonprofits, and more. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. EPA – Request for Nominations of Candidates for the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Ozone Panel.

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2021 Conservation Endangered Species Act Climate Change 105