2012 Clean Air Act Regulations 
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation. 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. Download as PDF
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 26, 2023
The absence of baseline regulation of dairy operations isn’t limited to greenhouse gas emissions. At the federal level, agricultural operations are exempt from laws intended to prevent pollution to water and to the air. But here’s the thing: CARB itself has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from dairies.
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Acoel
JUNE 29, 2022
This level of forced retirements is far in excess of any prior EPA projections of plant shutdowns resulting from implementation of a Clean Air Act rulemaking. For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule.
Clean Energy Law
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
The South Coast Air Basin includes portions of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties and all of Orange County, covering 6,745 square miles. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.
The Energy Law Blog
AUGUST 16, 2012
By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 7, 2012, in a 2-1 decision in Summit Petroleum Corp. When making single stationary source determinations without the protection of the non-aggregation provision in Section 112 of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. See Summit Petroleum Corp. Environmental Protection Agency, No. at 15 (6th Cir.
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements.
The Energy Law Blog
AUGUST 21, 2012
Moreno On August 13, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) disapproval of revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) dealing with the state’s Flexible Permits program. 13, 2012) ( quoting in part from 42 U.S.C. State of Texas v. 7410(a)(1).
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