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Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay

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The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste. But efforts to add new pollutants to the list haven’t kept pace with our growing understanding of the risks from substances that weren’t on regulators’ radar 50 years ago, including PFAS.

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Second District Affirms Judgment Rejecting CEQA And Other Challenges To CARB’s “Technology-Forcing” Emissions-Control Regulation For At-Berth Tanker And Other Ships

CEQA Developments

It was undisputed that CARB could lawfully set emissions limits based on technologies that do not currently exist referred to as technology-forcing standards so long as those technologies are reasonably anticipated to exist by the compliance deadline. Resources Code, 21080.5(c);

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Environmental Quality Board Approves Final Rule Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations; Conventional Drillers Oppose

PA Environment Daily

This regulation adopts reasonably available control technology requirements and RACT emission limits for oil and natural gas sources of volatile organic compounds. This regulation, which is a key part of DEP’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Commonwealth, has been in development since early 2019.

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The Infamous Failure of the Eco-Patent Commons and the Quiet Success of the WIPO Green Project: What We Can Learn About Disseminating Green Tech to Developing Countries

Vermont Law

Much of the technology for this sustainable development already exists, but is covered by exclusive patent rights. Because of this, there have been many attempts to develop programs that can facilitate the dissemination and use of existing patented technology for developing and less developed countries. implementation. together.

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Clean Power Plan: The Legal Battle Continues

The Energy Law

EPA also cannot require electricity generation to be shifted from coal-burning units to units that use other energy sources as a pollution control technology. Circuit may rule in the Fall or Winter of 2016. The Clean Power Plan usurps authority given to States by the U.S. Constitution and the Clean Air Act.

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EQB Adopts Part I Of Final Regulation Reducing Oil & Gas VOC/Methane Emissions; DEP Documents 80% Of Methane Emissions Come From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities

PA Environment Daily

Ramamurthy also said the final regulation does not change the substance of how Reasonably Available Control Technology requirements are set for unconventional and conventional oil and gas facilities. It is applied equally to both, not making it a substantively different rulemaking. Read more here.

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

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Units with existing advanced NOx controls must optimize their utilization by 2023. The proposed rule would provide de minimus air quality benefits in downwind areas with extremely high costs – estimated by EPA at $22 billion discounted 2016 dollars for the 2023-2042 period. ppb in 2023, with typical reductions of 0.1 ppb by 2025.

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