2022 Clean Air Act Natural Resources 
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Natural Resources Defense Council v. The Supreme Court soon picked up on this language, and the concept was written into the law when Congress amended NEPA in 2022. The court said EPA did have to preserve clean air, EPA worked up some rules, and Congress ultimately added elaborate provisions on the subject to the Clean Air Act.
Legal Planet
JUNE 27, 2024
NEPA remains the workhorse of natural resource litigation today. Clean Air Act. Clean Water Act. This law has done a good job at cleaning up municipal and industrial water pollution. Until gutted by the Supreme Court in 2022, it also provided important protection to the nation’s wetlands.
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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. Wolf announced the initiative in 2019. Read more here.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Because these regulations are required under the Clean Air Act, failure to submit them in final form to U.S. EPA by December 16, 2022, will result in EPA imposing non-discretionary sanctions, and the federal government would thus withhold nearly $1 billion of transportation funding ?
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).
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 2, 2023
I had a small glimpse into this work in early 2022 when his office reached out to me after reading a report I co-authored on the risk of chemical spills from storage tanks in Virginia. Among its provisions, the legislation will: Require consideration of cumulative impacts in permitting decisions under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 9, 2025
The 250 mg/l limit of chlorides in groundwater contamination limit DEP established for the Moody study is significant because a Penn State study released in May 2022 found water runoff from conventional oil and gas wastewater dumping on dirt and gravel roads contained from 7,550 to 10,000 mg/l of chlorides. Read more here - page 50.
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