Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. What does this mean for clean energy projects?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

require a petition to meet three criteria in DEP’s initial review-- -- Petition must be complete; -- Petition requests an action that can be taken by the EQB [within its statutory authority]; and -- The action does not conflict with federal law. DEP’s determination means the petition has met these three criteria, at this stage.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. At the federal level, agricultural operations are exempt from laws intended to prevent pollution to water and to the air.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Read the full story at the National Law Review. On October 17, 2022, the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed finding that lead air pollution may reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health and welfare within the meaning of Section 231(a) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On November 17, Erie Coke Corporation, along with a corporate officer, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on among other charges, Violation of the Clean Air Act, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today. The eight-count Indictment, returned on Nov. Attorney Chung.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Under the federal Clean Air Act, plaintiffs must send notices of intent to sue at least 60 days before filing a complaint in federal court. Shell must be held accountable under the law and take appropriate steps to prevent illegal pollution going forward.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Million For Drilling Violations In Greene, Clearfield Counties [January 2018] -- DEP Assesses CNX Gas Drilling $433,500 For Violations In Greene County [January 2018] -- DEP Issues Cabot Oil & Gas $99,000 Penalty For Numerous Well Site Air Quality Violations In Susquehanna County [December 2017] -- EHB Issues $1.1

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

On January 26, PennEnvironment and Clean Air Council announced they will file in U.S. District Court on Monday a proposed consent decree in settlement of their federal Clean Air Act lawsuit against United States Steel Corporation. The agreement mandates that U.S. Most of the penalty money ($4.5 Steel spent $17.5

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A district court has ruled that federal law does not preempt an indirect source rule that targets emissions associated with warehouses in Southern California. The California Attorney General, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), and a group of environmental NGOs intervened in defense of Rule 2305. labor laws). [15]

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National Law Center

MARCH 17, 2022

20-1530 (2022), a lawsuit. The post Scope of EPA Authority Before the Supreme Court appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. The United States Supreme Court recently heard arguments in West Virginia v. Envt’l Protection Agency, No.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The Clean Air Council and the Environmental Integrity Project asked DEP to temporarily halt operations of the Shell Polymers Monaca plant in Beaver County until the company can demonstrate it can operate in compliance with pollution control laws. tons of NOx in a 12-month period).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2023

It is one thing for Congress to pass a law. It is entirely different thing for a federal agency to make a rule (in other words, regulations) in accordance with that law. For context, Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention is a rule related to the RMP and issued by the EPA, in accordance with the Clean Air Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

At the same time, to avoid repeats of prior destructive stop-start policy lapses while simultaneously signaling a long-term incentive off-ramp, policymakers scheduled the tax credit to begin phasing out for resources coming online in 2033 or after power sector emissions are below 25% of 2022 levels, whichever is later.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2023

Million Penalty, Settlement With Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Over Clean Air Act Violations Public Participation Opportunities/Calendar Of Events Grants & Awards PA Bulletin Public Notices Stories Invited - About PA Environment Digest Supporting Member PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers; PA Outdoor Writers Assn.;

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2022

Going back to 1978 and through this month, Congress has acknowledged climate change in a total of 87 enactments, as shown by a database just posted by Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Image by JessicaRodriguezRivas pursuant to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

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MGKF Law

JUNE 30, 2022

S. _ (2022). The major questions doctrine requires that a federal agency have “clear congressional authorization” when acting on issues of great “economic and political significance.” citing Utility Air Regulatory Group v. West Virginia v. EPA 597 U. ” Id. EPA , 573 U.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund have just launched IRAtracker.org. Tracking IRA Implementation The IRA Tracker will monitor how federal agencies are implementing the law. The post New Inflation Reduction Act Tracker Launched by the Sabin Center and EDF appeared first on Climate Law Blog.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

Fact: The PA Supreme Court issued a decision in 2013 declaring a similar provision in the Act 13 state law regulating oil and gas drilling unconstitutional. Read more here. House and Senate Republicans have been opposed to the regulations since Gov. Wolf announced the initiative in 2019. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

The very least this international corporation can do is to follow the law and not make Pennsylvania taxpayers breathe in their illegal pollution,” said Sarah Kula, attorney for the Environmental Integrity Project. Joseph Minott, Executive Director of the Clean Air Council, said: “Shell’s persistent law-breaking must end.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Seth Jaffe. The Clean Water Act – It’s routine for EPA to take more than 10 years to act on NPDES permit renewals. The Clean Air Act – The Supreme Court has ruled that it does not provide authority for EPA to address the defining issue of our time.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Pat Parenteau. The Supreme Court kicks off its 2022 term on October 3 with the highly anticipated argument in Sackett v EPA. This time the Clean Water Act is on the chopping block. Some 28 states have laws on the books mandating that state law be “ no stricter than federal law.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The IRRC had earlier expressed concern there were not separate final regulations for unconventional and conventional oil and gas facilities as required by a 2016 state law (Act 52). Because these regulations are required under the Clean Air Act, failure to submit them in final form to U.S. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

On November 15, 2022, Erie Coke Corporation, along with the plant superintendent, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on among other charges, violation of the Clean Air Act. Such hazardous air pollutants were released directly into the air to avoid the plant’s environmental monitoring system.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

Eyes On Shell Eyes on Shell said since January 2022, Shell has submitted more than 39 "Malfunction Reports" to the DEP listing a multitude of problems at the plant. Since April 2022, the state DEP has issued 14 "Notices of Violation," 11 of which were related to air quality. Read more here.

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MGKF Law

AUGUST 29, 2024

85 MAP 2022, 2024 WL 3450536 (Pa. Because of this ruling, the three nonprofit organizations (Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future, Clean Air Council, and the Sierra Club) (Nonprofits) are now able to pursue an appeal of the Commonwealth Court’s final order permanently enjoining the RGGI Regulation from going into effect.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2023

Steel Edgar Thomson Steel Plant Air Pollution Violations $1.5 Million Penalty, Settlement With Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Over Clean Air Act Violations [PaEN] -- TribLive: Allegheny County Health Dept. Steel Edgar Thomson Steel Plant Consent Decree Explained -- EPA Announces $1.35 Hits Contractors With $1.1

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MGKF Law

JULY 6, 2023

In April 2022, the Director of EPA’s Fuel Compliance Center responded to Sinclair’s email, stating, in relevant part, that “the 2018 RINs [would] not be returned… ” Sinclair filed the petition for review of EPA’s April 2022 email.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Eugene M. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. This level of forced retirements is far in excess of any prior EPA projections of plant shutdowns resulting from implementation of a Clean Air Act rulemaking. It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2022

million penalty and make extensive improvements at its steel production facility in Braddock, Pennsylvania, as part of a settlement covering longstanding air pollution violations. Settlements like this serve notice to companies that they must follow the law to keep workers and neighbors healthy and safe.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Of Justice Indicts Erie Coke (Coal) And Corporate Officer For Violating Federal Clean Air Act Over 4 Years EPA To Host Dec. Of Justice Indicts Erie Coke (Coal) And Corporate Officer For Violating Federal Clean Air Act Over 4 Years EPA To Host Dec. Click Here for a Calendar of Upcoming Events.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency wrote a letter to DEP accepting DEP’s final regulations setting VOC/methane limits on conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities for evaluation which “stops the imposition of federal highway funding sanctions that were set to take effect in Pennsylvania on December 16, 2022.”

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In a 2022 press release introducing New York’s then-unprecedented Climate Superfund bill, one of the bill’s sponsors directly stated that the bill was inspired by source attribution research (specifically, research on carbon dioxide and methane emissions attributable to fossil fuel and cement producers).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

‘It Simply Should Not Happen, Period’ [PaEN] -- Stars and Stripes Guest Essay: Pause On Permits For New LNG Gas Export Facilities Right Move For National Security - Rivals Like China Are Using US LNG To Build Influence - By Steve Anderson, US Army Brigadier General - Retired [PaEN] -- PA Utility Law Project March 15 Webinar On Impacts Of LNG Gas Exports (..)

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SPR Law

JULY 15, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the U.S. The majority for the Court held that EPA’s “generation shifting” objectives found in the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan fell outside the meaning of the “best… The post SCOTUS Invokes Major Questions Doctrine to Restrict EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gases appeared first on Sive Paget Riesel.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Toxic Substances Control Act section 7 imminently hazardous chemical. Supreme Court regarding the Clean Air Act and other environmental statutes as to whether EPA is required to consider costs when promulgating a rule. Parties will have until November 7, 2022 to comment on the proposed rulemaking.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

On February 22, PennFuture President and CEO Jacquelyn Bonomo announced her retirement, effective July 2022, after a 37-year career in environmental advocacy. Pennsylvania, like much of the world, is in the midst of historic social, political, and economic changes that are putting enormous stresses on our environmental resources and laws.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) represent a radical change in federal climate policy. And with divided government at the federal level, these laws may well be the last nationwide legislative actions on climate change for years.

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