2005 Air Pollution Clean Air Act 
Legal Planet
JUNE 27, 2024
Clean Air Act. In public health terms, what makes air pollution distinctive is the millions of people exposes to common pollutants such as particulates and smog. NEPA remains the workhorse of natural resource litigation today. If I were listing laws in order of importance, I would put the CAA on top.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 18, 2024
We also found that co-located sterilization facilities, facilities in communities with higher cancer risks, and facilities that have violated the Clean Air Act are disproportionately near people of color, illustrating the vast disparities of who this pollutant impacts most.
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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
From 1960 to 2005, coal use grew more or less steadily by 18 million tons per year. The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
In 2005, the last time EPA updated emissions standards for commercial sterilizers, the agency contemplated banning the use of EtO for sterilization at new facilities, but that proposal was promptly scrapped due to concerns around viable sterilization alternatives.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
A decade later, in 2005, the agency contemplated banning new commercial sterilizers from using the gas, forcing them to use alternatives. The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to review—and update—its ethylene oxide emissions standards every eight years, but the last time it did so was in 2006.
Acoel
JUNE 29, 2022
These air quality impacts are minimal compared with the major ozone reductions resulting from the 1998 SIP Call, which resulted in more than 80,000 megawatts of coal capacity being retrofitted with SCRs. The 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) provided smaller but significant air quality improvements following its implementation in 2010.
Corp Watch
MARCH 8, 2024
In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,
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