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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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EQB Adopts Final-Omitted Reg. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; And A First-Ever State MCL For PFOS/PFOA

PA Environment Daily

DEP again repeated their legal position that Act 52 does not apply to regulations promulgated under the state Air Pollution Control Act like the one before the Board for the vote. The alternative for Rep. Metcalfe said it is inappropriate to use the final-omitted process to avoid the public comment period on this regulation.

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Montrose Environmental Group Receives 2019 EBJ Business Achievement Award

Montrose

With successful applications on 1,4-dioxane and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water using a proprietary approach that leverages the properties of ion exchange resins to enable analyte removal and on-site regeneration, ECT2 became the PFAS treatment leader in 2017 in Australia, a country leading the way in PFAS remediation.

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. Just a year later, however, the industry encountered a potentially major obstacle: A study conducted by the government’s National Air Pollution Control Administration found a link between outdoor NO2 exposure and childhood respiratory problems.

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Cars, Smog, and EPA

Legal Planet

This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards. Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. The history of these pollution standards is quite distinctive. Tier 3 standards were phased in starting with 2017 cars.

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Oil Refineries: A Deadly Industry

Union of Concerned Scientists

Refineries have the highest rate of pollution in the oil industry, including air, water and soil pollution. Between 2017 and 2023 there were over 1500 injuries and seven deaths in 153 refineries across the US. One good example of the nexus between global warming and local pollution is ground-level ozone.

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Clean Air Council Appeals Air Quality Permit For Beech Hollow Gas-Fired Power Plant In Washington County

PA Environment Daily

On September 14, the Clean Air Council appealed an effort by Pennsylvania to resurrect a defunct air pollution control permit that would allow construction of a large gas-fired power plant proposed for Robinson Township. The result is that Robinson Power has no valid permit to build the power plant at all.