PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice announced a settlement with Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Services Inc. The settlement is expected to reduce tons of nitrogen oxide and particulate matter pollution and improve air quality where their trains operate.” On January 24, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2022

This regulation adopts reasonably available control technology requirements and RACT emission limits for oil and natural gas sources of volatile organic compounds. Yaw have supported legislation rolling back environmental protection standards for conventional oil and gas operators. Nick Troutman, the alternate for Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency issued for public input a draft white paper on control techniques and measures that could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new stationary combustion turbines. On April 21, the U.S. These turbines, which are currently projected to be a significant part of U.S.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

By: Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 8, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching Clean Air Act rule intended to address the interstate transport of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from upwind to downwind states. See 76 Fed. 48208 (Aug.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

Image via PickPik On May 23, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed emission limits and guidelines for carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-powered plants. The IRA has made tax credits for CCS more accessible and generous , bolstering EPA’s case that the technology is adequately demonstrated and cost-effective.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Gas stoves, which are in 38 percent of US households, not only emit methane, but also toxic pollutants besides NO2 that are associated with respiratory ailments and cancer. A 2022 study in Environmental Science and Technology detected more than 20 volatile organic compounds, including hexane, toluene and benzene, in unburned stove gas.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping plans to reconsider more than 31 major environmental regulations and programs, including pulling back regulations reducing methane emissions and regulating production wastewater from oil and gas operations. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

The law, part of a package of national environmental reforms in the early 1970s, was transformative. Environmental Protection Agency recommends water quality standards for rivers and lakes to prevent death and damage to fish, mussels, insects, and other aquatic species. Mobility, cost, and environmental protection.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

On September 4, a coalition of clean air advocates announced they have filed a federal lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency demanding stronger rules to reduce hazardous air pollution – including cancer- causing benzene – from steel industry coke [coal] oven plants across the country.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. Cars and trucks are a lot cleaner than when I was growing up.

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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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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

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. Total to pay $2.9

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The tools and technology for achieving that goal in agriculture are well understood and applied with differing levels of authority, commitment, and effectiveness around the world, but not across the United States. a potential solution is chemical technology to scrub harmful algal blooms from lakes. In the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

EPA’s final rule leverages the latest cost-effective, innovative technologies and proven solutions to prevent an estimated 58 million tons of methane emissions from 2024 to 2038, the equivalent of 1.5 On December 2, the U.S. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide – nearly as much as all the carbon dioxide emitted by the power sector in 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Of Environmental Professionals Host March 18 Webinar On Emerging PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Treatment Technologies PA Recycling Markets Center Hosts March 11 Webinar Update On Recycled Paper Commodities Markets, Including Impacts Of Tariffs Call For Presentations: PA Assn. PA Environment Daily Blog : Update on PA environmental issues.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , who arrived about five hours after the incident. It is also crucial to avoid cross media impacts such as when water pollution is remediated by pumping chemicals into the air without pollution control to prevent nearby exposures.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Norfolk Southern reported the incident to the National Response Center two hours after the crash, initiating response and clean up by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , who arrived about five hours after the incident. Two years ago , a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2025

Trumps political appointeesmany with a record of science denial or close ties to the industries theyre supposed to be regulatingare threatening to stop enforcement and roll back rules on chemical safety, clean transportation, emissions standards, pollution control, and other important issues.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

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. but it includes funding for research and other environmental provisions. 2225 ) to create a new technology directorate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 5, 2025

Firing federal researchers, hamstringing federal agencies Federal researchers are positioned at agencies throughout the government, at institutions as wide-ranging as the Centers for Disease Control, the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Department of Agriculture, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. But the calculus changes when it comes to compliance.

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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. The American electrical grid is shaped by regulation at the federal, state, and local levels, which must constantly adapt to changing technologies and market consumption patterns.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. Safety & Pollution Prevention (Oct. 26, 2021).]] 27, 2021).]]

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the months since our 2020 update on federal actions affecting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has continued to take action on its PFAS Action Plan. It focuses on three destruction and disposal technologies: thermal treatment, landfilling, and underground injection.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 5, 2025

Firing federal researchers, hamstringing federal agencies Federal researchers are positioned at agencies throughout the government, at institutions as wide-ranging as the Centers for Disease Control, the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Department of Agriculture, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping plans to reconsider more than 31 major environmental regulations, programs and findings. This is the text of that announcement and links to EPA press releases on individual actions.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping plans to reconsider more than 31 major environmental regulations, programs and findings. This is the text of that announcement and links to EPA press releases on individual actions.

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