PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act and Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

Clean Air Act

MGKF Law

JUNE 29, 2025

EPA , holding fuel producers had standing—and had specifically demonstrated redressability—to challenge California-specific regulations EPA approved under the Clean Air Act. Read More » Tags: Agency Action , Air , California , Clean Air Act , Climate Change , D.C.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2025

What’s Bugging You If It Isn’t A Mosquito Background On Issues -- Coterra Energy Fined $299,000 For Contaminating 13 Private Water Supplies In Lenox Twp.,

Electricity

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Kentucky v.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. From 2000 to 2020, national PM 2.5

Ozone

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. I’m not including laws that simply incentivize clean energy or those that fund pure science, even though both are vitally important parts of climate policy.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

This would ensure that manufacturers are only compliant with the least protective regulation in any given year, including a provision that would actually allow manufacturers to simply buy their way out of compliance with the Clean Air Act, something that is explicitly disallowed under current law.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

EPA Supreme Court ruling which held that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. Attacks on the Endangerment Finding and EPAs Clean Air Act authority from industry interests are nothing new. Court of AppealsD.C.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2025

Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) 2024 greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles (the HDV Rule) that went into effect on June 21, 2024. Yesterday, January 21, 2025, the Sabin Center filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National League of Cities (NLC) and the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) in support of the U.S.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

Related Articles This Week: -- Coterra Energy Fined $299,000 For Contaminating 13 Private Water Supplies In Lenox Twp., So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Interconnection Again Extends Maximum Generation Alert & Load Management Alert To July 30; Demand Response Programs Implemented On July 28, 29 [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Sept.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

The EPA has found the current (or any increasing) mix of atmospheric concentrations of six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, poses a threat to human health. Supreme Court, not the wind or solar industries, that forced the EPA to act on the basis of existing law, the Clean Air Act.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MAY 1, 2025

Bush refuses to regulate greenhouse gases, reneging on a campaign pledge to do so. If firms expected these government decisions to have enormous economic effects, youd expect them to prepare by doing more hiring when a government decisions anticipated effect is a significant economic upturn, and less it is a significant downturn. After: 6.1%.

Regulations

Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2025

It calls out Californias long-standing greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, as well as New Yorks and Vermonts recent laws reinforcing the right to hold major emitters responsible for climate impacts they have contributed to, as illegitimate impediments to American energy. As noted, these restrictions are narrow, clear, and widely understood.

Law

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding. It also rests on Supreme Court precedent, Massachusetts v. 7521(a)(1).

2009

Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2025

Elective pay itself is untouched in the OBBB Act, but the aggressive phase-out of and additional restrictions imposed upon the underlying tax credits severely impact eligible entities’ ability to claim them via elective pay. Rescission and repeal of certain federal funding programs The OBBB Act has implications far beyond the tax code.

2026

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. So Far This Year [PaEN] -- Spotlight PA: Why Pennsylvanians May See Higher Electric Bills This Summer And Next [PJM Auction, A.I.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

In late 2009, EPA made a formal finding often called the Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gases may endanger human health and welfare. Understanding the Endangerment Finding Two requirements must be met before a substance can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. First, it has to qualify as an air pollutant.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Notably, in granting the Advanced Clean Car waiver , EPA relied heavily on the fact that the program cuts traditional air pollutants, including those that cause ozone pollution, from vehicles. The fact that the standards also cut greenhouse gases is a secondary consideration.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

California is allowed to set standards stronger than the federal government under the 1970 Clean Air Act provisions in recognition that CA, and many other states which have adopted CA standards , serve an important role as laboratories of innovation controlling air pollution in novel ways. In the U.S.,

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

Miles Of 4 Texas Eastern Natural Gas Pipelines To Allow For Longwall Coal Mining In Greene County [PaEN] -- DEP Posted 78 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In July 26 PA Bulletin [PaEN] Related Articles Last Week: -- Attorney General Sunday Files Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2022 Leak Of 1.1 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

2023

Legal Planet

MARCH 12, 2025

And buried within the list of 31 is a huge bombshell: the “reconsideration” of EPA’s finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare under the Clean Air Act.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Trump has made no secret either of his antipathy toward zero emission vehicles or of his intent to revoke the special authority California has under the Clean Air Act to issue its own vehicle pollution standards. And of course the global community is adopting EVs at an even faster pace than the U.S.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The EPA requires new trucks to emit fewer greenhouse gases and health-harming pollutants than existing models. UCS and local advocates are looking to win a similar rule in New York, the Clean Deliveries Act. These rules are sometimes called indirect source rules, and are legally defined as such in the federal Clean Air Act.

Electricity

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

For example, Section 60103 of the IRA , which establishes the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) , specifies that $15 billion of the $27 billion allocated to the GGRF should be used for the purposes of providing financial assistance and technical assistance in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2025

Senate may vote this week to revoke California’s authority under the Clean Air Act to cut pollution from cars and trucks. The Senate vote is on a resolution to use the Congressional Review Act to overturn three separate waivers EPA granted California to cut pollutants from cars and trucks.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day In 2024-25; Extreme Weather Risk Big Factor [PaEN] Related Articles This Week: -- Coterra Energy Fined $299,000 For Contaminating 13 Private Water Supplies In Lenox Twp., 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. Last Friday, the justices granted review in Diamond Alternative Energy v. On Monday, the Court denied review in a separate but related case, Ohio v.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

To recap: The unanimous opinion found that nations of the world have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. EPA is renouncing its ability to even regulate greenhouse gases as a threat to human health.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Interconnection Again Extends Maximum Generation Alert & Load Management Alert To July 30; Demand Response Programs Implemented On July 28, 29 [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Sept. 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2025

Completes Successful Lithium Extraction From Shale Gas Wastewater At Susquehanna County Pilot Plant [PaEN] PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard- July 26 to August 1 [PaEN] -- Coterra Energy Fined $299,000 For Contaminating 13 Private Water Supplies In Lenox Twp.,

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8 Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2 Gigawatts By Increasing Reliability From Less Than 75% Now To An Achievable 90% [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: Three Proposals To Protect Consumers From A.I.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

Before making this finding, first had to offer a novel reading of the Clean Air Act (CAA). These efforts were based on section 111 of the Clean Air Act. To put it another way, the new approach isn’t just a shift in how the agency thinks about greenhouse gases. This is a bizarre conclusion: U.S.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

The EPA, following administrator Lee Zeldin’s anti-science and anti-public health agenda, also just sent its proposal to reconsider EPA’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding to the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

On June 17, 2025, EPA published a proposed rule to either repeal entirely, or significantly revise, a rule issued in 2024 which set performance standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants to limit their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This week, the Sabin Center filed three comment letters opposing the proposal.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Several states and industry groups are challenging EPA’s 2024 rules which set greenhouse gas emissions limits for certain fossil fuel power plants nationwide (referred to here as the Power Plant Rules). This case will have a major impact on how and when power plants must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

2024

Law Columbia

APRIL 30, 2025

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund The IRAs Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) program is the largest of EPAs program terminations by dollars. The Endangerment Finding was EPAs 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and endanger public welfare.

Government