PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Industries claim that this Board lacks the authority to act on this petition is not supported by these laws. The [state] Oil and Gas Act, Clean Streams Law and Air Pollution Control Act give EQB the authority and mandate to promulgate regulations to protect health and the environment.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2025

MWA is represented in the appeal by the Law Firm of Sarah Winner and is committed to safeguarding the community’s water resources, public safety, and ecological health by holding DEP accountable to established regulations. This appeal is essential, we cannot let history repeat itself with the Rustic Ridge expansion.”

Pollution Control

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

The 51st Statewide Investigating Grand Jury recommended charges under the Air Pollution Control Act and Clean Streams Law regarding negligent maintenance and upkeep of the well. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act and Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc. Attorney Eric G. Olshan for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Clean Air Act

Vermont Law

APRIL 23, 2025

Background Federal involvement in regulating water quality has a long history, stretching back to 1948 when Congress passed the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA). The CWA was a stark departure from its predecessor federal program to control water pollution. State Water Resources Control Bd.

Clean Water Act

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

Only the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District and the South Coast Air Quality Management District, out of Californias 35 local air districts, have adopted ISRs, despite the pervasiveness of air pollutants like nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5).

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

On February 28, ECOS also issued this statement on the reported 65% cut to the US Environmental Protection Agencys budget-- States carry out more than 90% of the nations federal environmental laws in communities around the U.S.,

Air Pollution

Circle of Blue

JULY 10, 2025

Billions of tons of ash have been scrubbed from air, flushed from the bottom of furnaces and washed and dried from pollution control equipment. About 10 percent of the more than 45 billion tons of coal burned in the United States since 1970, most of it for electricity, ends up as coal ash, one of the nation’s largest waste streams.

2015

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This legal battle has both a long history and enormous implications for California’s aggressive pollution control and climate change policies.

Clean Air Act

Nanotech

MAY 29, 2025

On May 22, 2025, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) held a public hearing on its Proposed Permanent Rules Relating to PFAS in Products; Reporting and Fees (proposed rule). Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Jim Mortenson facilitated the hearing, which had more than 100 participants in attendance.

Pollution Control

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. -- DEP published notice in the February 8 PA Bulletin it has scheduled a March 11 hearing on a proposed Air Quality Plan Approval permit covering new air pollution control equipment to be installed at the Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County. (

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Parents have legitimate concerns because the controls that would make this a synthetic minor source are not sufficient to ensure emissions will not exceed those thresholds.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2025

EPA has not historically made such findings when it issues a new pollution control regulation for an industry on the list. The subsection of the Clean Air Act that directly applies to those regulations does not mention such a requirement. Here and here.)

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2025

It expressly left open whether EPA is strictly limited pollution control measures within the fence-line of individual sources. They also seemed to think that carbon capture was a form of conventional pollution control, removing a pollutant (CO2) from the smokestack.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

MAY 2, 2025

But our tools are rusty: Unfortunately, the core of the laws governing permit review is decades out of date so much so that air permitters generally dont even consider these more recently-developed technologies. It creates a process to periodically review and upgrade the pollution control technologies at older facilities.

Pollution Control

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Responsible for implementing the authorities of the PA Conservation District Law of May 15,1945, Paul credits the vision and foresight of the individuals responsible for the enactment of this statue and with enabling and guiding him throughout his soil and water conservation career. In 1969 Ralph W.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Neuman said it is undisputed that in 2013 the Mariner East pipeline was an interstate pipeline that provided no service in Pennsylvania and was regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Authority as common carriers under federal law with no eminent domain authority. Read more here.

2013

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Ongoing Explosion/Fire Investigation: Energy Transfer Reported An Uncontrolled Release Of Ethane For 9.5 Hours From Its Revolution Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County [PaEN] -- 3 Days That Shook Washington County: Natural Gas Plant Explosion; Pipeline Leak Of 1.1 27 Released 1.1

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

It empowers EPA to issue pollution control requirements covering new facilities in the industry. That provision doesn’t reference whatever pollutants may have been considered prior to placement on the list. In other words, the risks posed by individual pollutants are only referenced up to the time the industry is listed.

Pollution Control

Legal Planet

APRIL 10, 2025

This week saw a flurry of stories at the intersection of federal actions, tariff policy, and rule of law concerns How Trumps on-again, off-again tariff threats will raise the costs of building renewable energy projects in the U.S. Energy stories that caught my eye Puerto Rico has the least reliable energy system of any place in the U.S.

Nitrogen Oxides

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.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Oil and gas standards promulgated by EPA must be rooted in the rule of law, not be used as a weapon to shut down development and manufacturing in the United States. Pennsylvania has independent authority to adopt its own methane limits under state law, if it so chooses. Read more here. Read more here.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2025

Free pass to pollute In March, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that corporations subject to certain Clean Air Act regulations could request a “Presidential Exemption” from air pollution controls for up to two years. This is a permission slip to pollute in defiance of the law and basic justice.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 16, 2025

Evaluation of pollution controls : Determining whether heat-trapping emissions from power plants cause harm is legally, and logically, an entirely separate question from determining whether cost-effective controls for limiting those emissions are reasonably available. No impacts, no costs, no harms; just: nothing.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2025

These rules require companies to install pollution control equipment when they build new facilities or make a change that increases emissions significantly. The digital revolution has ushered in new needs and new industries which demand new permitting rules that help, not hamper development. Energy Summit?

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

On Friday, October 7th, the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at U.C. Davis School of Law will convene a major, day-long conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act. Davis School of Law. The event will assess the progress the U.S. Hall, the U.C. It is free to attendees.

Clean Water Act

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Clean Water Act (CWA), one of the nation’s most important environmental laws, is 50 years old today. 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.

Clean Water Act

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Credit: ABA for Law Students. In 1921, however, the Pennsylvania Legislature passed a law–the Kohler Act–prohibiting the mining of underground coal in a manner that would cause subsidence of the property leading to damage or destruction of a surface dwelling. One hundred years ago this month, the U.S.

Law

Environment, Law, and History

JANUARY 12, 2023

These developments set the stage for the blossoming of federal environmental law with the passages of NEPA, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and other major legislation in the decade that followed." Wolfe, Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District vehicle, Burbank, 1947-1950?

Law

Law and Environment

MARCH 8, 2022

Ameren Missouri submitted to the Court a proposal to shut Rush Island early rather than install expensive pollution control equipment. . The post DOJ Gets Off Its Moral High Horse: Ameren Missouri Will Close Early first appeared on Law and the Environment. None of this was really news.

Pollution Control

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice — Circle of Blue. As septic pollution roils Higgins Lake, Michigan lawmakers consider reform — Bridge Michigan. Eric Holcomb has signed a law regulating the underground storage of carbon dioxide, the Northwest Indiana Times reports. In the News. Other News.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water contaminants before they foul drinking supplies. It’s frustrating,” he said.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Nanotech

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) held two public webinars in July 2024 to provide updates and answer questions on Minnesota’s per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in products law (Amara’s Law), which takes effect in stages between 2025 and 2032.

Law

Law and Environment

JANUARY 13, 2022

According to Inside EPA (subscription required), the Department of Justice (and the Sierra Club) have opposed Ameren’s Missouri’s motion to allow it to close its Rush Island generating facility early, rather than install otherwise required pollution control equipment. Like Tevye in A Fiddler on the Roof, I’ll tell you. . I don’t know.

Pollution Control

Law and Environment

MARCH 22, 2022

The Boston Air Pollution Control Commission has formally adopted its “Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance Phase 1 Regulations.” The Phase 1 regulations are really all about the “disclosure” side of BERDO.

Regulations

Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Air Pollution Control Commission has authority to suspend some or all of the requirements of BERDO 2.0 The post Boston Regulates Building GHG Emissions: The Next Few Years Will Be Very Interesting first appeared on Law and the Environment. Use of Renewable Energy Certificates as a compliance mechanism.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Specifically, while the Court did not ultimately rule out all possible interventions beyond direct pollution controls at individual sources, it did make clear that direct pollution controls were the clearest course, meaning that moving forward, EPA is likely to devise BSER based on things that can be applied “at or to” a polluting facility.

Clean Air Act