Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Project 2025 report is 920 pages long, but only a few portions have gotten much public attention. But does Project 2025 even matter, you might ask? With all that in mind, here are six Project 2025 proposals that you probably haven’t heard much about. Project 2025 is opposed to those consumer savings, apparently. #3.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Hilcorp Energy Company For Federal, State Clean Air Act Violations [PaEN] -- DEP Prints Corrected Notice Inviting Comments On New Air Pollution Permit For Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Processing Plant In Washington County; Plant Suffered Major Explosion, Fire In 2022 [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Dec.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Recognizing the environmental and public health risks posed by methane, in January 2015, the Obama administration set a goal of reducing emissions from the oil and gas industry by 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025. Thus, in EPA’s view, the methane NSPS cannot be applied to transmission and storage facilities.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Regulating the carbon emissions of thousands of power plants is not a choice, it’s what’s required under the Clean Air Act and subsequent determinations and court decisions.  If this all feels like deja vu, that’s because we’ve been here before. million electric cars in use by 2025. Long story short, they did and it is.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 8, 2017

of the Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to address this through emissions standards for air pollution from cars and trucks. The EPA had stated in its 2017 mid-year review that the auto industry was on track to meet the 2022-2025 standards. Section 202.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. EPA , 549 U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

. -- DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Dec. 5 On Methane Emissions Reduction; Federal Plugging Program; Injection Well Primacy; Financial Assurance; Drilling & Permitting Activity Impacts On DEP Budget [PaEN] -- EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. The bill also would establish a grant program under the Safe Drinking Water Act for assistance to community water systems affected by PFAS to pay for capital costs associated with treatment technologies. The House bill ( H.R. N: 2021 Md.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 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. Read more here. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

4 Webinar: Our Work Helps The Allegheny River Thrive -- TribLive: Nature Focus Of Artwork Featured In Loyalhanna Watershed Association’s 40th Annual Auction -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb. 5-7 In Lancaster [PaEN] -- Wilkes-Barre Times: DEP Reduced Permit Backlog By 67% Under Gov. Shapiro -- Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2024

Now, instead of deferring to the expertise of agencies that, for instance, set specific pollution limits under the Clean Air Act, courts can substitute their own judgment about what the one true meaning of the statute is and strike down regulations that don’t align with their interpretations of what the “best” reading is.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

1 [PaEN] Upcoming Events -- Moms Clean Air Force Nov. 20 Webinar On Clean School Buses Funding For Pennsylvania, Noon to 1:00 p.m. -- PA Solar Center, Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services Release New Guidebook For PA Municipalities On Development Of Large-Scale Solar Facilities; Nov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The policy details within each action roughly correspond with recommendations in Project 2025, the infamous policy agenda penned by figures from the first Trump administration and supported by several anti-climate organizations.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

4 In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- PUC Commissioner Kathryn Zerfuss Appointed To EPA’s Farm, Ranch And Rural Communities Advisory Committee -- TribLive: Eureka, Citizens Gifted Eplugs To Fire Company To Thwart Electric Vehicle Dangers -- Moms Clean Air Force Nov. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Washington Supreme Court concluded that the Washington Clean Air Act did not grant the Department of Ecology authority to regulate indirect greenhouse gas emissions of businesses and utilities whose products ultimately generate such emissions. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A quick refresher: Automobiles and trucks are among the leading causes of climate- and lung-destroying air pollution worldwide, and shifting from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles is a key strategy (among many) to cut these emissions. With the loss of national leadership looming in 2025, the EV focus is becoming local.

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Law Columbia

JULY 5, 2024

Before Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency had meaningful latitude to determine how to carry out its mandate under the Clean Air Act. If in 2025 Democrats hold the presidency and a majority in Congress, we may see an Inflation Reduction Act 2.0; if Trump wins, the regulatory vacuum will surely grow.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The bill would amend Section 4 of TSCA to require EPA to issue a testing rule for all PFAS that would require manufacturers and processors of PFAS to develop information “likely to be useful in evaluating the hazard and risk posed by such substances in land, air, and water (including drinking water), as well as in products.

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