Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of the Treasury is hosting a public hearing on the December 2023 proposed regulations governing implementation of the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen. Still, certain issues under consideration in the proposal would radically depart from that approach, resulting in outcomes far afield of statutory requirements.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

In late December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations for the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit. The tax credit, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, provides a generous incentive for the production of clean hydrogen. the “three pillars”).

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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. As a person in SoCal with asthma, cleaner air is especially important. We need every tool we can apply to gain healthier air. California. Washington.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2023

On October 4, the Philadelphia-based Clean Air Council announced the retirement of its longtime executive director, Joseph Otis Minott, Esq. Fighting for everyone’s right to clean air and a healthy environment, it has grown to become one of Pennsylvania’s largest environmental organizations.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2023

But cleaning up the energy system has other benefits aplenty. As we clean up our energy system, we simultaneously reduce the tons of pollutants we now produce from burning coal, oil, and natural gas. The disadvantaged bear the heaviest burden from air pollution today. The main reason to control carbon is to protect the climate.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

This project threatened the region’s clean air and water and would have harmed our way of life in the area, especially for the people who live next to the proposed facility,” said Sandy Field, member of the local residents group Save Our Susquehanna. Chemical recycling is not a solution to the plastics crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

This is despite the clean energy progress the power sector has experienced to date—and despite the groundwork laid for more progress from leading states, as well as the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On February 12, environmental groups announced the US Environmental Protection Agency formally objected to an air quality permit for the US Steel Edgar Thomson Plant issued by the Allegheny County Health Department in August 2023 saying it was not in compliance with the Clean Air Act. Steel Edgar Thomson by ACHD.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2035 The state has already committed to reduce its heat trapping emissions by 50 percent by 2030 and 75 percent by 2040, and to be net zero by 2050. Now is the time to enact legislative proposals such as the 100% Clean Act , which is aligned with Healey’s own campaign commitment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2023

There are Supreme Court cases going back a century or more dealing with what we would now consider environmental issues such as preserving nature or air pollution. I began with a Westlaw search for the term “air pollution.” The earliest opinion I found was Huron Portland Cement Co. City of Detroit. Justice William O.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The Center for Coalfield Justice is partnering with the Donora Historical Society and Smog Museum to host an October 11 webinar to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Donora smog, an event that led to the creation of the state Air Pollution Control Act and the federal Clean Air Act.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Groundwater regulation, legal rights to clean water, and spending measures highlight this election cycle. In rural southeastern Arizona, however, the kitchen table issue strikes closer to home. In California and New York, voters will be asked to approve multibillion-dollar bond and taxing measures to benefit air, land, and water.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 9, 2024

The Court’s rationale boils down to EPA’s failure to make a predicate finding that the SIP call was “necessary or appropriate to meet the [CAA’s] applicable requirements.”

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

in civil penalties for air quality violations occurring after the May 24, 2023 consent order. b of the May 24, 2023 order [ page 25 ], Shell agreed to the assessment of civil penalties for future violations of 12-month air emission limitations occurring after April 2023 and before January 2024. However, in Paragraph 14.b Paragraph 14.b

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Circuit Court of Appeals granted a writ of mandamus to the Center for Biological Diversity, imposing a deadline on EPA to issue an “effects determination” concerning the potential impacts of the pesticide cyantraniliprole. This effects determination was supposed to be issued before EPA registered the pesticide.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

EPA recently issued information on 23 locations in the country that are experiencing very high rates of exposure to ethylene oxide from nearby facilities that use it to sterilize medical equipment. You may have heard about the chemical, ethylene oxide (EtO), making headlines lately for posing health risks to communities across the country.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Along with interim goals and priorities for pollution reduction in environmental justice areas, the law provides authorization and resources for state agencies to enable the transition to clean, renewable energy. Illinois legislators and clean energy advocates celebrate CEJA’s signing in September 2021.

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Legal Planet

MAY 18, 2023

It might also impede New York’s clean energy program, including its effort to direct green spending to disadvantaged communities. So any ban on new air pollution sources would apply not in the community but upwind. That traffic would add to local air pollution. Avoiding the need for permits.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- Mountain Gathering LLC - Pipeline Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on proposed modifications of an Air Quality Plan Approval for the facility located in Forward Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2320 ) -- Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC: DEP issued a Chapter 102 permit for a project impacting Sciota Brook in Colley Twp.,

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 7, 2023

With the Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the issue, the lawsuits against the oil industry are heading back to state court. That’s where the plaintiffs wanted those cases from the beginning, but it’s by no means the last of the issues they will confront. Here are some of the major issues we can expect them to raise.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection notified the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County it will no longer be able to operate under an Air Quality Construction permit and must submit an application for a full Title V Air Quality Permit within 120 days. 12,671,044.75 12,671,044.75 Read more here. Read more here.

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Environment, Law, and History

JANUARY 12, 2023

Farber focuses on US Supreme Court decisions, finding its earliest uses of "air pollution" and "water pollution" and references to wilderness as something worthy of preservation in decisions from the 1960s. Wolfe, Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District vehicle, Burbank, 1947-1950?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. PA Trout Unlimited Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues. .;

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Air, an exhibit at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, invites the community to learn about the Wasatch Front’s air quality issues. Air features recent works by sixteen artists, poets, engineers, and designers from around the globe and Utah.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. PA Trout Unlimited Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

facility, now the Shell Petrochemical plant: DEP issued a deficiency letter on February 6, 2024 on the Final Report demonstrating remediation of soil and groundwater contamination met Statewide Health and Site-Specific Standards for the facility located in Potter Township, Beaver County. Greene County. ( Philadelphia. ( Allegheny County. (

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

On August 8, Hold Erie Coke Accountable issued a call to federal and state environmental agencies and the City and County of Erie to form an Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Site Community Working Group to help support the remediation and revitalization of the site. Click Here for a 5-page briefing paper on Erie Coke [Coal] Plant site issues.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Lodestar Award is a distinction given to Pennsylvania entities who are leading the way investing in clean and renewable solar energy. Click Here to sign up for regular updates. Photo: Part of the Stargazers Vineyard solar energy installation.)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. 28 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Keystone Station Coal-Fired Power Plant In Armstrong County DEP Will Hold A Hearing Feb. Click Here to search back issues of the Digest.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 6103 ) Air Quality Permits -- Eastern Gas Transmission And Storage, Inc. South Oakford Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on proposed Title V Air Quality Permit for the facility located in Hempfield Twp., LLC: DEP issued a Chapter 102 permit for a project impacting Losey Creek located in Middlebury Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

On February 22, the Choose Clean Water Coalition , Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed and PennFuture released the 2024-25 Pennsylvania Clean Water Legislative Briefing Book , a comprehensive guide to protecting and restoring Pennsylvania's rivers and streams. million individuals, with 5.7

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 8, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. 9 Webinar On Applying For EPA Clean School Bus Rebate Program DEP Chesapeake Bay Update: Funding Opportunities, Projects Supported; County Clean Water Updates; Much More!

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. PA Trout Unlimited Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

The area's residents already struggle under the enormous burden of impacts to their air and water. Using fossil gas from fracking will impact more land, water and air in communities distant from the facilities being proposed, and we need DOE to consider these impacts more broadly. Read John Detwiler’s full testimony here.]

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 6590 ) -- Range Resources-Appalachia, LLC - 294,000 Gallon, 20 Tank Wastewater Storage Facility: DEP issued a WMGR123 General Permit for the facility located in Fawn Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Tioga County. ( Delaware County. ( Lancaster County. ( McKean County to the Shawmut Grade Produced Water Facility in Sergeant Twp.,

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

The proposed Reid Road Reservoir Quarry is more than just a local issue – it’s a call to protect our fundamental right to clean drinking water, fresh air, and a safe living environment. The quarry’s potential approval threatens to contaminate Milton and Campbellville’s water supply and degrade our air quality.

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