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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 1, 2022

While the agency proposes to give credit to such trucks, acknowledging “the zero-tailpipe emissions performance of these technologies,” they have not set any targets based on this performance. Manufacturers like Freightliner have been actively touting their big plans for electric trucks at events like this year’s Advanced Clean Truck Expo.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

California has a longstanding leadership role on transportation pollution, and the Clean Air Act grants the state the right to set strong vehicle emissions standards. We know the truck industry has a number of technological solutions to reduce its emissions, but we need regulators to take action to make it happen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. And here, the Court has struck a devastating blow.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Workers in facilities that produce and use EtO as well as people living near facilities that release it into the atmosphere are at risk of unsafe exposures even when the facilities are using the best available technologies to handle and contain it. Have I been exposed to ethylene oxide?

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E2 Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule on March 1, 2024, updating the Accidental Release Prevention Requirements and Risk Management Program under Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act (RMP). 40 CFR Part 68.

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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. The possibility of snagging some of this funding may also help nudge some lagging states to think seriously about cutting carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2022

The EPA is proposing a new Clean Air Act rule to sharply reduce methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry – including, for the first time, reductions from existing sources nationwide. Environmental Protection Agency, and Max Goff , certification manager for Project Canary , will give separate presentations.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s not hard to see why CARB has taken this approach: dairy digesters are a technological intervention that require little change to the operation of industrial dairies. In the United States, we already have a model for regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act. To CARB, installing digesters is a win-win.

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Capaccio

MAY 25, 2021

Dan will initially be working alongside our Air Permitting experts as he brings extensive Clean Air Act testing experience and will add depth to our team. Our unique approach combines our extensive EHS experience with cutting edge innovative technologies.

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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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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. But for many of these use-cases, hydrogen doesn’t do the job particularly well, at least as compared to existing technology.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2023

On May 4, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it will receive public comments and host a May 17 in-person public hearing regarding a plan approval application for Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT III) requirements for Covanta Delaware Valley, LP, a waste to energy facility in the City of Chester, Delaware County.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

The draft white paper presents information on the performance of state-of-the-art combustion turbine technologies and describes additional opportunities for GHG emission cuts. States and the public may also find the white paper useful to inform state-level actions to combat climate change and individual permitting considerations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Offsets would be entirely discordant with the intention of 45V, which is specifically designed to incentivize technology and process innovations to enable truly clean hydrogen production. This is the starting point from which all of Treasury’s implementation decisions must follow.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

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. and Sierra Club v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1966, vehicles were responsible for nearly 60 percent of the 146 million tons of pollutants discharged into the air across the United States.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

EPA has decades of experience and expertise regarding vehicle technology. Looking specifically at electrification technologies, start-stop systems were projected at 45 percent and were used in 10 percent of vehicles, while strong hybrids were projected to be 6.5 The rule is not unprecedented.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2024

EPA decision that, instead of deferring to EPA’s expert judgment in Clean Air Act regulation as courts have done for decades, stated that courts can overrule agencies on “major questions.” In its previous term, the Court upended precedent with the West Virginia v. Now, with the Loper Bright Enterprises, Inc.

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Arnold Porter

MARCH 15, 2023

Grey counsels a wide array of clients on regulatory, policy, and compliance matters related to climate change, including the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, the Clean Air Act, and other state and international initiatives on transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions.

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Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Nevertheless, and with the possible exception of the Clean Air Act, no law enacted as part of the outpouring of federal environmental legislation in the 1970’s has proven more successful and transformational than the CWA. That obviously did not, and will not, happen.

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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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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. at 427–428.

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Acoel

JANUARY 31, 2022

Of course, the EEI did so to ensure that the Clean Air Act continues to act as a shield against private tort actions over carbon emissions, but still. They are not per se anti-technology, but it does appear that this Court’s real complaint is with modernity itself. It’s difficult to call this Court conservative.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2024

EPA decision that, instead of deferring to EPA’s expert judgment in Clean Air Act regulation as courts have done for decades, stated that courts can overrule agencies on “major questions.” In its previous term, the Court upended precedent with the West Virginia v. Now, with the Loper Bright Enterprises, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Project Canary is a climate technology company, and we effectively build enterprise-wide emission data platforms, so that operators in the energy space can understand what's going on. Virginia and Tennessee have already done this, and they've done this through the creation of an innovative gas technology approach. ‘So

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Both technology and the shift of fuels have contributed to this trend. However, small datasets and new technologies that remove sulfur dioxide from emissions made it difficult to identify in the data the more recent shift from coal- to natural-gas-fired power plants. We wanted to look at how this trend has affected water quality.”

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Vorys Law

JANUARY 26, 2021

During the PAG meeting, Ohio EPA noted that, in the past, the agency has primarily relied on the minimum control measures required under the federal Clean Air Act to meet the NAAQS. Expanding the emissions inspection and maintenance program (i.e.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Clean Air Act, the U.S. Energy Policy & Conservation Act and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act. Reference to low emissions automobile technologies, such as hybrid or electric vehicles, may be considered proxies for fuel economy standards.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Croix and in South Carolina, EPA invoked Section 303 of the Clean Air Act, which provides for the issuance of an emergency order in response to an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health or welfare, to require immediate actions to either pause operations or reduce emissions from the facilities. In actions in St.

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Vorys Law

MAY 20, 2021

The purpose of Ohio EPA’s draft revisions to OAC 3745-21 is two-fold: (1) to satisfy Ohio EPA’s 5-year rule review requirements, and (2) to implement mandatory Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) requirements for the Cincinnati and Cleveland 2015 ozone nonattainment areas.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

These summaries highlight where EPA is required to, for example, establish new grant or loan programs, implement protections and safeguards under the Clean Air Act such as the Methane Emissions Reduction Program, provide technical assistance, or take other steps to implement the IRA.

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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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Capaccio

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Risk Management Program (RMP) Rule implements Section 112(r) of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and applies to facilities that use extremely hazardous substances.

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Capaccio

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Risk Management Program (RMP) Rule implements Section 112(r) of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and applies to facilities that use extremely hazardous substances.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

The Bad The Supreme Court has limited the EPA’s ability under the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gases, ruling it does not have the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions across the entire energy sector but can only do so on a station-by-station basis.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Among the consensus recommendations of the group were- -- [Participate In RGGI If Lawful] If the courts deem it lawful to participate in RGGI, and/or if the program is otherwise adopted by the General Assembly, continue to participate in RGGI, and utilize the program to satisfy the state’s requirements under proposed federal Clean Air Act GHG emission (..)

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