PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2022

This regulation, which is a key part of DEP’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Commonwealth, has been in development since early 2019. This regulation adopts reasonably available control technology requirements and RACT emission limits for oil and natural gas sources of volatile organic compounds.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

That theme continues throughout, from the Prevention of Significant Deterioration program , which helps protect attainment areas from pollution caused by new sources, to ongoing monitoring requirements for attainment areas. All states must submit SIPs, regardless of attainment status. the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Wall v.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

However, goods movement through the Ports is a major source of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in the L.A. The South Coast Air Quality Management District has reported that the Ports are “the single largest fixed source of air pollution in Southern California.” region and the State of California.

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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.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

cities move toward their greenhouse gas reduction goals via a cleaner national electric grid, increased vehicle and building electrification, and new distributed renewable energy resources. billion for a competitive grant and rebate program for the purpose of “purchas[ing] or install[ing] zero-emissions port equipment or technology” at ports.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

Buildings are one of Colorado’s top five sources of greenhouse gas emissions. As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Climate Change, and Tree Planting. Additionally, the bill establishes a Commission for the Innovation and Advancement of Carbon Markets and Sustainable Tree Plantings charged with developing a plan to achieve the State’s carbon mitigation goals.

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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. Congress adjusted the standards twice.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Three key takeaways from the court’s decision: The Court did not rule that EPA lacks authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants or other sources. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act authorizes EPA to address air pollution from both new and existing sources if the pollutant endangers public health or welfare.

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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. The case involves a group of challenges to EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing stationary sources under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a monumental piece of environmental and public health legislation.

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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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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. billion to the National Science Foundation to start a Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP). The bill provides $1.52

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

White House: President Biden met with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology after a meeting of the council, which focused on efforts to improve monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate innovation in energy technology. Executive Branch. View the White House readout. 28, 2022.

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ESA

MAY 15, 2023

This proposed rule requires power plants to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 90% between 2035 and 2040 – or shut down. NOAA and EPA – Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Proposal To Find That Michigan Has Satisfied Conditions on Earlier Approval. Comments are due by June 12, 2023.

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