Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

This free online resource includes a searchable database that catalogues all of the climate change-related provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as well as a tracker that records actions taken by federal agencies to implement those provisions. The IRA Tracker homepage.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

The draft white paper presents information on the performance of state-of-the-art combustion turbine technologies and describes additional opportunities for GHG emission cuts. EPA is asking for public comment for 45 days, through June 6, 2022. Posted: April 21, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 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 ? This regulation is not controversial.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 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 ? This regulation is not controversial.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

By Natalie Bencivenga, KDKA Radio -- Scranton Times: Norfolk Southern Repairing Rail Freight Bridge In Scranton -- EPA Adds Fmr Exide Technologies Facility In Berks County To Superfund National Priorities List [PaEN] -- EPA Opens Regional $1.5

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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 ? This regulation is not controversial.

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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. He has testified before Congress and he is a nationally recognized expert on the Department of Energy, DOE National Labs, renewable energy technologies, ARPA-E, and U.S.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

But in an effort to skirt legal challenges, the new rule bases its limits largely on carbon capture and sequestration (“CCS”) and hydrogen co-firing such that individual power plants are able to continue operation if they adopt the appropriate control technologies.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

If signed, the state would have to withdraw Clean Air Act waiver requests already in process with the Environmental Protection Agency. The sale of new electric trucks, buses, and vans in California doubled in 2023 from 2022 , and one of every six medium and heavy-duty vehicles sold in the state today produces zero pollution.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Carol F. Chemical storage and safety are in focus under the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act and the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (“RMP”) requirements. Certainly 2022 will bring more in the way of EPA enforcement under the Clean Air Act and other programs.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. Technologies to treat produced water to a quality for safe discharge and reuse have become more effective and affordable.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 Achieving that standard was thought to be nearly impossible when Congress created this mandate, but the mandate forced the car companies to make technological breakthroughs with catalytic converters. trillion miles in 2022. (If

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Trisko Coal production and mining jobs over the past half-century have been influenced by several factors, principally demand from the utility sector, technological breakthroughs in natural gas production, railroad deregulation, and environmental regulation. The federal Clean Air Act (CAA) was enacted in 1970 and amended in 1977 and 1990.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

PHMSA’s proposal is a welcome step that reflects important updates to existing standards, including unlocking the use of advanced technologies to find and fix more pipeline leaks. The technologies needed to find and fix harmful emissions are here, they’re cost-effective and they’re being used in the field. 27 Released 1.1

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2023

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR), or the range of technologies and processes for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and oceans, promises to be a major part of US and global climate strategy in the coming decades. billion to create regional direct air capture “ hubs.” Background: Carbon Dioxide Removal.

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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. Similarly, as our panelist Dustin Maghamfar has written , the IRA amends the Clean Air Act in ways that will have a qualitative impact. RSVP here !

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1966, vehicles were responsible for nearly 60 percent of the 146 million tons of pollutants discharged into the air across the United States. At the end of 2022, there were more than 283 million. The fact is there are a lot more cars on the road than when you were a kid. In 1960, there were 61.6 That’s not healthy.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S. and Sierra Club v.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 26, 2022

On October 21, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) released a request for information (RFI) regarding Section 60103 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) , also known as the IRA’s “green bank” provisions. Public comments may be submitted on the RFI’s docket until December 5, 2022. By Amy Turner.

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Acoel

JANUARY 31, 2022

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Seth Jaffe. Of course, the EEI did so to ensure that the Clean Air Act continues to act as a shield against private tort actions over carbon emissions, but still. They are not per se anti-technology, but it does appear that this Court’s real complaint is with modernity itself.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

The Bad The Supreme Court has limited the EPA’s ability under the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gases, ruling it does not have the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions across the entire energy sector but can only do so on a station-by-station basis.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 Issued on: 09/01/2024 - 17:26 2 min Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Total to pay $2.9

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Horizontal drilling with high intensity hydraulic fracturing was a new technology and a new method for [natural] gas extraction in many ways, but at the same time, it wasn't altogether new. Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. Schwartz, M.D.,

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

NDAA: The full Senate voted to pass the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). million for PFAS clean-up. Geological Survey for grants and other financial assistance to water resources research and technology institutes and centers. 15, 2022, and IPBES will hold an online workshop for reviewers Jan.

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Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act added reporting requirements of PFAS releases for certain industries. EPA intends to propose a rulemaking in 2022 to categorize the PFAS on the TRI list as “Chemicals. EPA is evaluating establishment of technology based treatment (i.e. There are currently 187 HAPs.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

innovation and manufacturing of critical new technologies, all while delivering significant economic benefits through increased recovery of wasted gas. The updates would provide more comprehensive requirements to reduce climate and health-harming air pollution, including from hundreds of thousands of existing oil and gas sources nationwide.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2025

Specifically, the Rule requires compliance with standards premised on the application of emissions-control technologies that do not yet exist in a commercially viable form. The Rule places severe burdens on coal-fired power plants and, through its indirect effects, on the viability of our Nation's coal sector.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. I’m an appellate litigator with a focus on climate and Clean Air Act cases. Q: Hi, Sean. For about 15 years I’ve been practicing in a very small firm.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

July 12, 2022 — On June 30, the U.S. EPA held the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan Rule exceeded EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. EPA ) held that CO2 and other greenhouse gasses meet the definition of an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Robert B. EPA as a decision depriving EPA of an important tool to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. First Court did not eliminate the Agency’s ability to require greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reductions under section 111 or any other section of the Clean Air Act.

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ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Office of Management and Budget release annual research and development spending memo. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology met July 28. The House and Senate had been negotiating a compromise between the America COMPETES Act and the Senate’s U.S.

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Capaccio

JUNE 14, 2022

For Reporting Year 2021 (forms due by July 1, 2022), 176 PFAS are reporting. This includes 4 PFAS automatically added by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) beginning with RY 2021. The list of PFAS subject to TRI will be frequently updated with additional PFAS added to TRI in 2022. How We Can Help .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In 1970, Lee Iacocca, then Ford’s executive vice president, said that the Clean Air Acts limits on tailpipe pollution “could prevent continued production of automobiles” and “do irreparable damage to the American economy. In 2022 and 2023, Honda effectively offered no EVs at all in California.

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ESA

JANUARY 18, 2022

White House: The Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report about scientific integrity in the federal government. PCAST: The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology will meet virtually Jan. 15, 2022, and IPBES will hold an online workshop for reviewers Jan. Jacobs-Young has a Ph.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In 1970, Lee Iacocca, then Ford’s executive vice president, said that the Clean Air Acts limits on tailpipe pollution “could prevent continued production of automobiles” and “do irreparable damage to the American economy. In 2022 and 2023, Honda effectively offered no EVs at all in California.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Science and Engineering 2022 report. Research Policy: The House leadership unveiled the America COMPETES Act ( H.R. This broad innovation and competitiveness act includes measures reauthorizing the Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Scientific Community. Executive Branch.

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