Acoel

AUGUST 14, 2023

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Steven Miano I recently had the opportunity to speak at a State University of New York (SUNY) conference for a group of exceptional primary and high school Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) teachers. Efforts to advance alternative energy technologies (wind, solar, etc.),

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

SO2, and NOx – harmful air pollutants that are known to endanger public health. It was the at the core of the previous challenge to President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which the Supreme Court rejected in West Virginia v. Yet because of the politics of climate change, the rule will almost certainly be subject to a similar challenge.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Pennsylvania, like much of the world, is in the midst of historic social, political, and economic changes that are putting enormous stresses on our environmental resources and laws. energy technology policy.

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Legal Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Both the car and power plant regulations involve major portions of the economy, but that is a normal attribute of Clean Air Act regulations. EPA does not claim “virtually unlimited power to rewrite” the Clean Air Act. And both are involve large compliance costs, though again that isn’t unusual.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

refinery to settle federal charges that it violated the Clean Air Act, the US Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency said May 1. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

This decision wrongfully precludes the agency’s authority to set robust power plant carbon pollution standards in line with today’s technologies and practices adopted on a sector-wide basis. With this decision, the Court has instead hamstrung that authority.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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). The Clean Air Act is an excellent example of this following the publication of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. Learn more about environmental law degrees.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

To a certain extent, this is because of political and procedural constraints: The IIJA relied on center-right supporters, such as the U.S. 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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

However, with the oil crisis in the rear-view mirror, then-President Ronald Reagan acceded to requests from Ford and General Motors to reduce fuel economy standards for a few years, and the political will to strengthen the program petered out.

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Brag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Howe how she would transition from the political sphere into governmental management, given President Biden’s initiative to bolster EPA staff. Rounding out his list of priorities, Mr. Uhlmann stated that there is no room for politics in enforcement, rather it is about the law and the facts. From Tim Kaine, Ms. Commentary.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

The reason may have been the high political stakes in the car industry or the relatively easier task of setting standards for new products in a single industry using a single energy process. The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 grams per mile (gpm) for NOx.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The political movement culminating in the passage of the Clean Water Act was triggered by several environmental disasters in the late 1960’s that shocked Americans and motivated them to take action to clean up the nation’s heavily-polluted waterways. ” That obviously did not, and will not, happen.

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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. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act authorizes EPA to address air pollution from both new and existing sources if the pollutant endangers public health or welfare.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The Gruenspecht effect refers to an economist who in his Yale PHD thesis argued that the Clean Air Act can unintentionally make air pollution worse in the short run if car drivers keep their old cars longer because regulation raises the price of new cars (a regulation induced substitution effect).

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

The turmoil that followed was political but also showed the lack of resources in societies led to their collapse. That would take researchers after the war years to examine, using new techniques and technologies, to finally record and analyze data produced during the modern industrial era. The 1960s and 1970s.

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 27, 2023

The reason may have been the high political stakes in the car industry or the relatively easier task of setting standards for new products in a single industry using a single energy process. The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Joe Manchin about holding up EPA nominations claiming “overreach” ) But this is not just about the political calculus of a president trying to make good on a climate pledge. So, EPA and the states have a shared responsibility to regulate “existing sources” — primarily power plants— under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2024

And they will raise other arguments — primarily, that the technologies that EPA is relying on to reduce emissions aren’t ready for prime time. Under the Clean Air Act, nationwide EPA air pollution rules can only be challenged in the D.C.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

In recent years, the RMP has been subject to a political tug-of-war: partially strengthened under the Obama administration and then promptly rolled back under the Trump administration. Furthermore, the proposal does not require all facilities regulated under the RMP to conduct safer technology and alternatives analyses.

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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. The updates would provide more comprehensive requirements to reduce climate and health-harming air pollution, including from hundreds of thousands of existing oil and gas sources nationwide.

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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., economic impacts, political significance), and when they identify a violation of the doctrine.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

The bill was introduced in the House on August 6 and referred to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology and on Transportation and Infrastructure ( H.R. On July 21, 2021, the House of Representatives passed the PFAS Action Act of 2021 by a 241-183 vote. Comprehensive PFAS Bill Passed House. The House bill ( H.R.

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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. This regulation is not controversial. There is no good reason to block the rulemaking but there are extreme consequences for doing so,” said Gov.

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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. The states asserted counts under the Administrative Procedure Act and of ultra vires action. The second petition was filed by a coal mining company. 66,496 (Dec.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

EN: These standards—or at least something based on the same Clean Air Act provision—have been in the works for a long time. Meanwhile, in 2021, the case against the Clean Power Plan re-emerged , resulting in the West Virginia v. EPA Supreme Court decision in 2022. There are two key takeaways from West Virginia v.

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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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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

The appellate court agreed with the court below that the lawsuit raised nonjusticiable political questions. 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. Reynolds v. State , No. 1D20-2036 (Fla.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The bill would amend Section 4 of TSCA to require EPA to issue a testing rule for all PFAS that would require manufacturers and processors of PFAS to develop information “likely to be useful in evaluating the hazard and risk posed by such substances in land, air, and water (including drinking water), as well as in products. 9, 2021).]]

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Horizontal drilling with high intensity hydraulic fracturing was a new technology and a new method for [natural] gas extraction in many ways, but at the same time, it wasn't altogether new. Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. Note: Dr.

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

Nominations: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a confirmation hearing this Wednesday for Arati Prabhakar, President Biden’s nominee for Office of Science and Technology Policy Director. If confirmed, Prabhakar would be the first woman and first person of color to be permanent OSTP director. . EPA decision.

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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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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

It focuses on three destruction and disposal technologies: thermal treatment, landfilling, and underground injection. This bipartisan Task Force is expected to continue its work in the 117 th Congress, pushing for legislative and executive action to address PFAS. Not Just the Federal Government—States Continue to Take on PFAS.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

2 trillion plan includes $50 billion to create a new technology directorate for NSF. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy forms Interagency Task Force on Scientific Integrity. . There is $180 billion pegged overall in the plan for investment in research and development and “technologies of the future.”.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With many federal judges sympathetic to the MQD’s anti-regulatory bent, and the Supreme Court majority that created this doctrine predicted to last for years, a legislative response from Congress may be a practical solution – if the politics can handle it. Env’t Prot.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Moreover, science cannot answer questions that are at heart economic or political, such as whether the Kyoto Protocol is worthwhile. [13]. as a pollutant at all to the Clean Power Plan, which has no chance of clemency before its swift execution at some point in 2017. [14]. Commercial technologies do not exist for removing CO.

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