Vorys Law

JANUARY 26, 2021

This post focuses on Ohio EPA’s anticipated regulatory changes to address non-attainment of the 2015 Ozone NAAQS. On January 20, 2021, the Ohio EPA’s Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC) hosted a “Program Advisory Group” (PAG) meeting via Microsoft Teams to inform interested stakeholders of recent and upcoming DAPC activities.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the November 12 PA Bulletin -- -- DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities [PaEN] -- The Environmental Quality Board published notice in the November 12 PA Bulletin of final regulations adopting RACT Air Quality Requirements For Major Sources Of NOx and VOCs to meet 2015 Ozone Standard. (..)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 24 PA Bulletin inviting comments on its determination that 57 major industrial facilities across the state meet Air Quality RACT II and RACT III requirements and the 2015 national ozone pollution standard.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2022

The lines form a chemical fingerprint that could be used to find “biosignatures” such as oxygen or ozone. Luckily, in 2015, Jiang had an idea. In fact, only since 2015 have we been able to view our entire planet in one frame, following NASA’s launch of the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). million kilometres from Earth.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

Instead, environmentalists were mainly concerned about the ozone layer, nuclear meltdown and chemical industrial pollution, the erosion of biodiversity and population explosion. I had to wait 37 years of my life until the world finally agreed to a global climate deal with the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

The CPDW is thought to be affected by the shift in the westerly winds around Antarctica which have increased in recent decades due to a combination of greenhouse gas forcing and the polar ozone hole ( Miller et al, 2006 ). Back in 2015, Pollard et al. 112-121, 2015. 2020) or Sadai et al. DeConto, and R.B. Clerc, B.M.

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Environmental Law Reporter

MAY 15, 2015

05/14/2015. Fri, 05/15/2015 - 07:20. United States v. Enviro-Safe Refrigerants, Inc. anderson@eli.org.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

There arecurrently carbon standards in place for new power plants , which were set back in 2015; however, there are no standards for existing plants as neither the 2015 Clean Power Plan nor the 2019 Affordable Clean Energy Rule —both of which targeted existing facilities—remain in place.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

One good example of the nexus between global warming and local pollution is ground-level ozone. To make matters worse, NOx contributes to the formation of ground-level ozone and secondary PM2.5, February 2015 – Explosion in an ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance, California. in the air than directly emitted primary PM2.5.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

Unlocking UNCLOS as an Instrument of Climate Protection When it comes to addressing the problem of climate change through international law, the global climate treaties—the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (‘UNFCCC’) and the 2015 Paris Agreement —are undoubtedly the main game in town (see ITLOS advisory opinion, para.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In August 2015, the Obama administration announced the. Nevertheless, in December 2015, 195 countries adopted an. including urban photochemical smog, acid rain and increased tropospheric ozone, and climate change at the local, regional, and global level respectively. jointly committed. to reducing their carbon emissions.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They do this by analysing the electromagnetic absorption spectra of an exoplanet’s atmosphere as it transits its sun, seeking the presence of gases such as oxygen, methane, water vapour and ozone (a proxy for oxygen). Possible signal?

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 3, 2015

A lot was at stake for EPA when this case went before the Court on March 25, 2015. where the Court held that EPA could not consider cost when setting air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter. Today, August 3, 2015, EPA issued a notice submitting the Clean Power Plan for. American Trucking. publication.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It incorporates the provisions and requirements contained in the RACT III approval for the facility, which are intended to satisfy the requirements for the 2015 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

EPA regulations under the Clean Air Act for controlling mercury, sulfur dioxide, ozone and other pollutants have contributed to the employment decline. Job losses have accelerated since 2012 with the development of low-cost fracking for natural gas.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Take the Arctic Circle, a region that contributes around 10% of global black carbon emissions but whose emissions are responsible for 30% of the warming effects in the region (Arctic Monitoring & Assessment Program 2015). AMAP Assessment 2015: Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic Climate Forcers.” Arctic Council. June 25, 2020.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The court rejected the argument that claims against the original and 2012 versions of the LCFS were moot, noting that these earlier versions affected how credits were calculated under the 2015 version.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Despite clear recommendations from its own science advisors, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced over the summer that it will delay its scheduled process to consider strengthening public health standards for ground-level ozone pollution. The stakes over ground-level ozone standard are high.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) released a draft set of recommendations calling on the EPA to tighten its current standard for ground-level ozone pollution to protect public health. But will the EPA follow CASAC’s recommendations?

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2022

the Department will develop a separate rulemaking for the RACT requirements for sources of VOC emissions installed at conventional well sites” since the regulations covering oil and gas facilities are being promulgated to attain both the federal 2008 and 2015 ozone standard.

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Environment, Law, and History

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Clean Air Act programs have lowered levels of six common pollutants — particles, ozone, lead, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide — as well as numerous toxic pollutants. Particulate concentrations improved more than a third between 2000, when trends data begins for ultra-fine particles, and 2015.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

the Department will develop a separate rulemaking for the RACT requirements for sources of VOC emissions installed at conventional well sites” since the regulations covering oil and gas facilities are being promulgated to attain both the federal 2008 and 2015 ozone standard. The Preamble to the revised rulemaking says “.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Methane also contributes to the formation of ground-level ozone which is itself a heat-trapping greenhouse gas and, when inhaled by humans, can trigger a variety of health problems from throat irritation and coughing to bronchitis, asthma, and reduced lung function.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

At the last census in 2015, it was estimated that species numbers were anything between 19,500 and 21,000. Also, with many species going extinct in the industrial age and many more threatened with extinction to the extent that there soon became an official list (16) , conservation won out with the same elements of preservation.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2022

the Department will develop a separate rulemaking for the RACT requirements for sources of VOC emissions installed at conventional well sites” since the regulations covering oil and gas facilities are being promulgated to attain both the federal 2008 and 2015 ozone standard. The Preamble to the revised rulemaking says “.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Senator Joe Scarnati (R-Jefferson), President Pro Tempore of the Senate, introduced legislation in 2013 and again in 2015 to create a shale gas health advisory panel and registry of complaints, but nothing ever came of it. For example: -- It’s a fact that fracking scars the landscape and degrades the environment. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

She also voiced support for the Obama administration’s 2015 sage grouse conservation plans and the Trump administration’s plans to remove wild horses and burros from public lands. EPA – 2021 Annual Joint Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Northeast Visibility Union (June 15). Steve Daines (R-MT).

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Obama administration finalized a rule in 2015 to enshrine a sweeping definition of protected waterways that included desert streams that flow only after rainfall, and some wetlands far from the larger tributary network. EPA – Request for Nominations of Candidates for the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Ozone Panel.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

This body will review the EPA’s scientific review of current ozone pollution standards. In 2019, the Trump administration opted to keep ozone pollution standards the same. The Biden administration announced this is it revisiting that decision in 2021.

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ESA

MAY 15, 2023

The Obama Administration finalized a similar regulation, known as the Clean Power Plan, in 2015, but red state attorneys general challenged the rule in the courts and the Trump administration ultimately withdrew the regulation.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Global Change Research Program since 2015. EPA – 2021 Annual Joint Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Northeast Visibility Union (June 15). The Trump administration reassigned Kuperberg to the Energy Department in November 2020, shortly after Trump lost re-election. Kuperberg had led the U.S.

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