Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Under the Clean Air Act, California has the unique ability to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from new vehicles, including greenhouse gases. Notably, the legislation will allow ten municipalities to ban natural gas use in new buildings. Other states can then piggyback on California’s efforts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

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. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. In 2011, in AEP v. That description of the holding in AEP v. at 427–428.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Arguments in the “core legal issues” brief include: The Clean Air Act does not authorize EPA to make such sweeping changes to how electricity is generated and transmitted in the United States. The Clean Power Plan usurps authority given to States by the U.S. Constitution and the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Pennsylvania has long been a leader in energy production from wood, to coal, to natural gas. This is not only true of Christians, but Pennsylvanians as a whole, with 72% of the state’s residents supporting RGGI, according to 2020 polling. It is clear that carbon-based fuels are not the future of energy in Pennsylvania.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. Justice Department said on Wednesday. Total to pay $2.9

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Moreno: On August 23, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule that significantly expands the applicable air emissions standards for the Oil and Natural Gas Sector. These NESHAP standards require major sources to use Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT).

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

EPA’s accompanying Fact Sheet spells out the proposed rule’s emissions reductions estimates: EPA has evaluated the emissions reductions, benefits, and costs of the proposals to limit CO 2 from the existing coal fleet and new natural gas units. SO2, and NOx – harmful air pollutants that are known to endanger public health.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Trisko Coal production and mining jobs over the past half-century have been influenced by several factors, principally demand from the utility sector, technological breakthroughs in natural gas production, railroad deregulation, and environmental regulation. Source: US DOE/EIA.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration proposed much-needed protections to improve oversight and reduce pollution from the nation’s network of natural gas pipelines today.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This rule was a clear opportunity to exercise the Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act to promote the most advanced emissions reductions technology. The Clean Air Act is pretty clear on the question at hand, and the data is as clear as can be—California must get its waiver ASAP.

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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. Clean Air Act. Section 60102 of the IRA adds a new Section 133 to the U.S. Second, $11.97

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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. 5:14 -cv-39 (N.D.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Fossil fuel : Any mineralized formerly organic material extracted from the ground and used in energy production: coal, natural gas, oil. There may also be requirements on what technologies must be used for mitigation such as the use of catalytic converters in cars that used older lead fuel (6). Key Current US Environmental Laws.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

Similarly, as our panelist Dustin Maghamfar has written , the IRA amends the Clean Air Act in ways that will have a qualitative impact.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The federal Clean Air Act defines an indirect source as any facility, building, structure, or installation, or combination thereof, which generates or attracts mobile source activity that results in emissions of any pollutant (or precursor) for which there is an air quality standard. [6]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Differences between setting fuel economy and emissions standards Under the Clean Air Act, EPA is obligated to reduce pollution from mobile sources like passenger cars and trucks when those emissions are a risk to public health and/or welfare. Additionally, there are incentives for natural gas vehicles and electric vehicles.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

EPA held the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan Rule exceeded EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. Three key takeaways from the court’s decision: The Court did not rule that EPA lacks authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants or other sources. The West Virginia v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Methane is a natural gas and one burnt as fuel in many parts of the world, but it too increases air density and the greenhouse effect. The impact is proportionally high considering the low levels of the gas in the atmosphere (14). Nitrous Oxide (13) is a byproduct of agricultural processes. The 1960s and 1970s.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Because these regulations are required under the Clean Air Act, failure to submit them in final form to U.S. It is a federally mandated, technology-based standard. This regulation is not controversial. There is no good reason to block the rulemaking but there are extreme consequences for doing so.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

The EPA has not sufficiently reconciled its compliance dates with the need for generation to meet dramatically increasing load demands on the system. -- The Final Rule is premised on the availability of increased access to natural gas infrastructure to support the Rule’s “co-firing with gas” compliance option for existing coal units.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

EPA as a decision depriving EPA of an important tool to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. The decision did not reverse EPA; it affirmed the action of the Trump EPA repealing the Clean Power Plan In so doing, Chief Justice Roberts’ majority opinion adopted the Trump EPA’s rationale for that repeal.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

innovation and manufacturing of critical new technologies, all while delivering significant economic benefits through increased recovery of wasted gas. Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane. Sharp cuts in methane emissions are among the most critical actions the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Because these regulations are required under the Clean Air Act, failure to submit them in final form to U.S. It is a federally mandated, technology-based standard. Photo: Conventional natural gas well leaking methane in Allegheny County, EarthWorks.) This regulation is not controversial. Williams, Esq.,

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

We know that, for children living, and pregnant mothers living close by well pads or other natural gas facilities, that they suffer tremendous amount of health impacts, from birth defects, to lower birth weight, to exposure to cancer-causing VOCs and other toxins; it's a problem.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

In rejecting EPA’s plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, the Court stated that “agency decisions of vast economic and political significance” (i.e., those that pose “major questions”) must be made “pursuant to a clear delegation” from Congress.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

These include two major regulatory rollbacks: the weakening of motor vehicle standards and the repeal of methane controls on the oil and natural gas sector. The Biden administration is now poised to wield that tool to make a meaningful dent in greenhouse gas pollution.

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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. Lawsuit Challenged 2021 Reissuance of Nationwide Permit for Oil and Gas Projects. The second petition was filed by a coal mining company. 20-1161 (D.C.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Environmental Groups in South Africa Filed Case Seeking to Set Aside Natural Gas Power Plant Approval. Citizens for a Healthy Community v.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

DEP estimates it will cost the conventional natural gas industry approximately $9.8 million of their product not leaking into the atmosphere, at current natural gas prices. Because these regulations are required under the Clean Air Act, failure to submit them in final form to U.S.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

Second, the industry doesn’t invoke the major question doctrine, making it clear that it does not view such technology mandates as out of bounds for EPA in the future. Technological Viability. It argues that these technologies have great potential. Third, most of its comments are focused on timing issues.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The agreement also allows countries to continue to export liquefied natural gas. Over 40 countries pledged to rapidly scale up technologies and policies to achieve a transition away from unabated coal power generation in the 2030s for major economies and in the 2040s globally. 2225 ) to create a new technology directorate.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

billion to the National Science Foundation to start a Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP). The directorate is tasked with accelerating use-inspired and translational research in technologies and innovations of national importance. Innovation and Competition Act ( S. Innovation and Competition Act ( S.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

At a recent victory tour rally in West Allis, Wisconsin President-elect Trump succinctly stated his energy policy: “On energy we will cancel the restrictions on the destruction of American energy, including shale, natural gas and clean beautiful coal.”. [1]. Commercial technologies do not exist for removing CO.

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ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology meets for the first time in the Biden administration. That means, for example, including the emissions from constructing a natural gas pipeline along with the emissions from burning the fuel it would transport for generating electric power. Executive Branch.

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