Government Pollution Control Regulations Technology 
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.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste. And then there’s money to prepare for the possibility of dioxane entering the city’s water supply — another pollutant not subject to drinking water regulations.
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Legal Planet
JUNE 30, 2022
Massachusetts made plain that emissions of carbon dioxide qualify as air pollution subject to regulation under the Act. Once EPA lists a category, the agency must establish standards of performance for emission of pollutants from new or modified sources within that category. at 528–529. 7411(b)(1)(B); see also §7411(a)(2).
Environment, Law, and History
OCTOBER 18, 2022
That’s primarily due to two key features of the CWA: first, a nationwide permit system designed to mandate aggressive application of pollution control technology to limit pollution from “point sources” such as factories and power plants. More on the history of the Clean Water Act here and here.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
In December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations governing implementation of the 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit , passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act. To defend against such negative outcomes, Treasury must explicitly prohibit pollution offsets within the 45V framework.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 12, 2024
DEP said it has the statutory authority in the 1995 law that created the agency, the state Air Pollution Control Act and other laws to establish grant and funding programs to implement the Plan. Pennsylvania’s Climate Action Priority Plan is available online. Visit DEP’s Priority Climate Action Plan webpage for more information.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere.
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