Environmental News Bits
APRIL 24, 2023
Hatfield’s Ferry Power Station, a Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant, stopped producing electricity in 2013. Clean Air Act. But the facility’s legacy of smog pollution continued long after … Continue reading How the Clean Air Act lets closed coal plants keep polluting for years
Real Climate
APRIL 2, 2021
But it emphasizes an important point about the relationship between SST and hurricane behavior in general: The hurricane response to SST changes depends on what caused the SST changes ( Emanuel and Sobel 2013 ). and European Clean Air Acts and Amendments of the 1970s ( Mann and Emanuel 2006 ; Dunstone et al. Smith, B.B.B.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act), as a result, EPA programs are often implemented narrowly, not holistically.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
I recently sat down virtually with one of UCS’s top EV experts, David Reichmuth , a senior engineer in the organization’s Clean Transportation Program, to get a better idea of EVs’ near- and long-term prospects. What is happening in California, and how quickly could that be replicated in other states?
The Energy Law
JULY 23, 2013
July 12, 2013) (pdf). Specifically, Section 126(b) provides that: Any State or political subdivision may petition the Administrator for a finding that any major source or group of stationary sources emits or would emit any air pollutant in violation of the prohibition of [the “good neighbor” provision] or this section. at 29 (3d Cir.
The Energy Law
JULY 1, 2013
By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On June 24, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the American Lung Association in the litigation involving EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (“CSAPR”). Supreme Court granted the petitions for writs of certiorari filed by the U.S. On August 21, 2012, in a 2-1 decision, the D.C.
The Energy Law
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
Arguments in the “core legal issues” brief include: The Clean Air Act does not authorize EPA to make such sweeping changes to how electricity is generated and transmitted in the United States. The Clean Power Plan usurps authority given to States by the U.S. Constitution and the Clean Air Act.
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