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State Air Regulations Can Go Above and Beyond National Standards 

Legal Planet

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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Why the New Climate Reg for Coal is a Perfectly Normal EPA Rule

Legal Planet

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. It’s not that EPA is trying to grind down the industry.

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The Problems with the SCOTUS ‘Good Neighbor’ Arguments

Legal Planet

The Act thus required EPA to issue federal plans, and to do so promptly so as to provide downwind states the necessary help in meeting their own statutory air quality attainment deadlines. The Clean Air Act directs lawsuits challenging EPA’s disapprovals of the inadequate state plans to the D.C.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., 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. Issued on: 09/01/2024 - 17:26 2 min Corporation TotalEnergies S.E.

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

How the environment is tested. What we think about as “chemical contamination” today, was typically measured with a wet chemistry test for “phenols” and for “oil and grease.” As you might guess, such measurements led to a fairly primitive definition of pollution. Clean Water Act. The Clean Air Act.

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Eight Important Updates About Recent PFAS Regulatory Developments

Arnold Porter

Expect EPA to Expand Efforts to Use TSCA to Test and Regulate PFAS. TSCA authorizes EPA not only to restrict new and existing uses of chemical substances but to issue regulations calling in existing studies and to order chemical manufacturers and processors to perform new testing on chemical substances.

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

ESA

According to Venable law firm, in “Justice Kennedy’s “significant nexus” test from Rapanos , the courts concluded that the wetlands on the Sacketts’ property have a significant nexus to a nearby lake and are therefore waters of the United States. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Feb. United States. .

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