2022 Pollution Control Regulations 
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
One issue in the Seven Counties case is whether the impact statement should discuss air pollution caused by refining the oil shipped over the proposed rail line. The argument is that the Board shouldn’t have to consider that because EPA has authority to regulate air pollution, not the Board.
Law and Environment
MARCH 22, 2022
The Boston Air Pollution Control Commission has formally adopted its “Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance Phase 1 Regulations.” The Phase 1 regulations are really all about the “disclosure” side of BERDO. The final Phase 1 regulations largely track the draft released late last year.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 26, 2025
In 2022, ninety of Texas beaches tested positive for unsafe levels of fecal bacteria (poop!), It also shows the same lack of deference to federal and state scientists and agencies as last summers Chevron case , which another colleague, Dr. Merner , explains has critical ramifications for environmental regulations.
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.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Neuman said it is undisputed that in 2013 the Mariner East pipeline was an interstate pipeline that provided no service in Pennsylvania and was regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Authority as common carriers under federal law with no eminent domain authority. Click Here for a copy of the ruling and order. Read more here.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Now, SB 1137 protects communities by establishing a setback distance of 3,200 feet for homes, schools, parks, or businesses open to the public from new wells, and requires comprehensive pollution controls for existing oil wells within the setback zone. The post 2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?
Circle of Blue
JULY 12, 2022
July 12, 2022. The Ohio EPA spars with federal agencies over pollution control in Lake Erie. Ohio regulators insist that the stricter standards would have no meaningful impact on the lake and would hike costs for ratepayers, calling the proposed rule a “concerning precedent” for similar cases across the state.
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