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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

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. Employment in the East (basically Appalachia) fell before 2000, ticked up until 2012, and then resumed falling.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million; -- FY 2012-13 budget eliminates $11.8 million from DCNR; -- FY 2012-13 budget continues the $102.8 million; -- FY 2012-13 budget eliminates $11.8 million from DCNR; -- FY 2012-13 budget continues the $102.8 million in across-the-board cuts to help fill gaps caused by reduced federal Medicaid appropriations-- $2.4

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Fifth District Holds Issue Exhaustion Not Required Where Agency Gave No Notice of Intent To Rely On CEQA Exemption Prior to Hearing, And Existing Facilities Categorical Exemption Does Not Apply to Unlined Landfills As A Matter of Law

CEQA Developments

All three landfills are operated by the County subject to oversight and permits by the County Department of Environmental Health Services, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District.

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EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Will Have A Dramatic Impact on Texas and Louisiana

The Energy Law Blog

Specifically, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) requires 27 states, including Louisiana and Texas, to make dramatic cuts in power plant emissions. Emissions reductions will take effect quickly, starting January 1, 2012 for SO2 and annual NOx reductions, and May 1, 2012 for ozone season (May-September) NOx reductions.

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Fifth Circuit Vacates EPA’s Disapproval of the Texas Flexible Permits Program

The Energy Law Blog

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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Federal Courts Need to Allow the EPA to Clear the Air

Vermont Law

The CAA expressly forbids pollution from one state “significantly contributing” to another state’s nonattainment of its air quality standards, and in recent years, the EPA has promulgated rules using regional cap-and-trade programs to control the interstate transport of smog precursors from power plants. In 2012, in. Michigan v.

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule. In sum, EPA’s proposal for reducing interstate ozone transport adopts unrealistic deadlines and overly-aggressive emission control retrofit mandates. EPA MATS Regulatory Impact Analysis, 2011.

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