Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 18, 2022

An excerpt: The CWA as enacted a half-century ago was enormously ambitious and, with the benefit of hindsight, quite naive: in the law’s legislative findings, Congress declared that “it is the national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985.” That obviously did not, and will not, happen.

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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. And, most relevant here, §7411(d) then requires regulation of existing sources within the same category.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is still awaiting funding to craft the regulations needed to implement the laws, though it has indicated it will begin the process soon. However, the existence of federal regulations on the same subject as a state law does not mean that state law is necessarily preempted. 218 (1947)).

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 23, 2013

In the recent ruling, the Third Circuit held that it was reasonable for EPA to interpret Section 126(b) to be an “independent mechanism for enforcing interstate pollution control,” thereby giving EPA authority to directly regulate a specific source in an upwind state. See GenOn REMA, LLC v. 12-1022, slip op. at 29 (3d Cir.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2024

Is EPA’s new climate rule a sneaky effort to eliminate coal or a valid pollution standard? Some new arguments made by EPA convince me that it’s pursuing a time-tested approach to pollution control. Simply put, the Inflation Reduction Act has made CCS an economically feasible technology.

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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. But much more is needed. What can be done?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2022

million penalty and make extensive improvements at its steel production facility in Braddock, Pennsylvania, as part of a settlement covering longstanding air pollution violations. Steel is required to make numerous improvements in training, monitoring and work practices to increase compliance and timely response to air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

The information may assist states and local air pollution control agencies, Tribal authorities, and regulated entities in their consideration of technologies and measures that may be implemented to reduce GHG emissions from stationary combustion turbines.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

This level of forced retirements is far in excess of any prior EPA projections of plant shutdowns resulting from implementation of a Clean Air Act rulemaking. For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Fossil fuel company defendants want the cases heard in federal court, where they can argue that the cases should be quickly dismissed on the grounds that federal common law climate claims are displaced by the Clean Air Act.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This Rule continues to use the same time-tested, court-affirmed methodology EPA has long used to identify cost-effective pollution controls and equitably allocate reductions among upwind States. The Clean Air Act directs lawsuits challenging EPA’s disapprovals of the inadequate state plans to the D.C.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

As my colleagues and I have explained , generation shifting is an ordinary consequence of pollution-control rules and is the easiest, cheapest, and best way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel-powered plants. Among already submitted comments are valuable ways the EPA can increase the stringency of the regulation.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The Clean Air Act (CAA) regulates smog, setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and PM. NAAQS because of pollutants emitted from Midwestern power plants. The EPA then assumed that each polluter in the NO. 2.5. ), mostly from fossil fuel consumption. In 2012, in. Michigan v.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”), EPA sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards (“NAAQS”) but states determine the specific control strategies that the individual state will use to achieve NAAQS. State of Texas v. Environmental Protection Agency , No. 10-60614 (5 th Cir. 7410(a)(1).

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency's ability to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants under the federal Clean Air Act. EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Some background — As required by the Clean Air Act, North Carolina has a State Implementation Plan (SIP) for ozone pollution describing how the state will meet the federal ozone standard. Beginning implementation a model year later resulted in a net benefit of $162.3 million to $865.9

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Environmental regulation. EPA and agencies have dozens of guidance documents and regulations about analytical methods to be used for environmental samples. Based on regulations and scientific knowledge, commercial laboratories have an established suite of chemicals they typically look for in environmental samples. Limitations.

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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. compliance option.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Mitchell | The Advocate | March 9, 2020 State regulators relied on nearly decade-old air pollution data to support their conclusion that Formosa Plastics' $9.4 James testifying against requested air quality permits for Formosa's planned petrochemical complex in St. USA: Deparment of Environmental Quality analysis for $9.4B

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 23, 2023

That bill, introduced in 2001 and passed the next year, told the California Air Resources Board to create such standards using ARB’s special powers under the Clean Air Act to develop more strict air pollution controls for cars than the federal government (explained here ). Frank Pallone, Jr.,

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The CWA as enacted a half-century ago was enormously ambitious and, with the benefit of hindsight, quite naive: in the law’s legislative findings, Congress declared that “it is the national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985.”

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 27, 2023

Dan Farber at Legal Planet recently posted on "Cars, Smog, and EPA" An excerpt: For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx [nitrogen oxides] standards for new cars itself. That’s quite different from the standards for industrial pollution sources, which Congress has always delegated to EPA. EPA, 1973).

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Supreme Court issued a decision striking down an Obama era rule regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants. EPA held the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan Rule exceeded EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. The Clean Power Plan Rule. The West Virginia v.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Our client is Tom Jorling, a former Senate staffer and EPA official who was directly involved in drafting the Act in 1970. (We As our brief details, the answer to both questions is plainly yes.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

But, behind the scenes, they have a long history of lobbying to delay and derail regulations that would prevent pollution, keeping us addicted to disposable plastic. Over the next few years, the area surrounding the plant allegedly began to feel the plant’s hazardous effects, as groundwater was contaminated and toxic waste released.

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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. This blog post summarizes the history of federal vehicle emissions regulations, the arguments made by Petitioners in Texas v. The brief is available here.

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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. The states appealed the dismissal of the case. Missouri v.

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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. In 2015, the EPA issued the Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, which at the time were the largest source of heat-trapping emissions in the country.

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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.” Virginia Federal Court Said Challenge to NEPA Regulations Was Not Justiciable. June 25, 2021). Washington State Dairy Federation v. 52952-1-II (Wash.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the trade group had satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending judicial review and stayed the rule “insofar as it purports to regulate trailers.” Murray Energy Sought Supreme Court Review of Fourth Circuit’s Dismissal of Clean Air Act Jobs Study Case. Foster , No. 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D.

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