PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act and Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. The EPA identified the alleged violations through field investigations conducted in 2018 and 2019.

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Clean Air Act Ground-Level Ozone Carbon Dioxide Natural Gas 116

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation.

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Clean Air Act Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions Clean Energy 246

Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The South Coast Air Basin includes portions of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties and all of Orange County, covering 6,745 square miles. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. 20, 2019). [6] Proposed Warehouse ISR. Looking Forward. 6] See 42 U.S.C.

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Ozone Regulations 2020 2019 130

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. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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2020 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

Law and Environment

JUNE 14, 2022

The Clean Air Act generally prohibits a state from adopting its own motor vehicle emission standards. In September 2019, the Trump administration’s EPA, for the first time ever, attempted to revoke California’s waiver, specifically with respect to its GHG and ZEV program. currently electing to do so. 3291(a).”.

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Clean Air Act 2013 Climate Change Ozone 100

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Oil and natural gas operations are also significant sources of other health-harming air pollutants, including smog-forming volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and toxic air pollutants such as benzene. These include known cancer-causing toxics like benzene, VOCs that increase ozone levels, and methane. Additionally, Dr. Lisa M.

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Natural Gas Air Pollution Waste Greenhouse 52

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. EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Sea Level Electricity 363