2008 Environmental Protection Pollution Control 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 17, 2025
After slowing new purchases during the Great Recession, railroads bought a large volume of new locomotives, both to replace aging stock and to avoid stronger pollution controls. Each successively more stringent standard is defined as a particular “tier,” with today’s new engines currently required to meet Tier 4 emissions standards.
Circle of Blue
JULY 10, 2025
In the tiny town of Cayuga, Indiana, a coal-fired power station poisoned the nearby Wabash River for over 40 years, not through the fumes billowing out of its smokestack but the heavy metals leaching out of its unlined ponds holding coal ash, a serious pollutant that has been linked to cancer, reproductive harm, heart disease and brain damage.
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Legal Planet
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Supreme Court issued important orders in two closely-related environmental lawsuits previously decided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Smith Enviorment
DECEMBER 12, 2019
On December 5, the Environmental Integrity Project (a national nonprofit organization) issued a report on state funding for environmental protection programs. The report, The Thin Green Line, looks at staffing levels and funding for environmental programs between 2008 and 2018 in the lower 48 states. 2008 Funding.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5
Law Columbia
MARCH 29, 2024
Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Part Two considered the future of the climate disclosure rule in the context of the SEC’s rulemaking process.
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 8, 2022
By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal Repeated sediment pollution incidents and accusations of destroying habitat for rare hellbenders on a Pennsylvania “river of the year” have brought criticism over natural gas operations in a scenic valley and revealed weak protections for “exceptional value” streams.
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