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Driving on Electricity Is Now Much Cleaner than Using a Gasoline Car

Union of Concerned Scientists

Emissions from electricity generation (and for using EVs) have dropped dramatically The first UCS analysis of the emissions from EV driving in 2012 showed promise for EVs, but the emissions for some parts of the country were equal to the efficient non-hybrid gasoline cars of the time.

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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

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. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels.

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House Environmental Committee Meets June 6 To Consider Bills On Environmental Impact Reports; Cryptocurrency Operations; Clean Hydrogen

PA Environment Daily

The legislation includes-- -- Impact Statements: House Bill 652 (Bullock-D-Philadelphia) requiring environmental impact reports on certain electric generation, waste management, sewage treatment and other facilities that are a major source of air pollution proposed in already burdened communities. Click Here to watch online.

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Update: Supreme Court Will Review EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule

The Energy Law Blog

Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the American Lung Association in the litigation involving EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (“CSAPR”). On August 21, 2012, in a 2-1 decision, the D.C.

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California’s Secret Weapon: The Scoping Plan

Legal Planet

b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c) The 2012 scoping plan was challenged in court but upheld because of the painstaking process that the Board had followed. c) The cost-effectiveness, including avoided social costs, of the measure.

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D.C. Circuit Vacates EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule

The Energy Law Blog

Wiegand On August 21, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR). Specifically, only states that contributed a threshold amount to the air pollution in a downwind state were subject to the provision. By Stephen W.

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 28

PA Environment Daily

. - Pennay G Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval covering multiple sources of air pollution, including compressors, pigging operations, at the well pad located in Brooklyn Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Greene County. ( Washington County. ( Bradford County. ( Warren County. (