PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

On April 4, the PJM Interconnection sent a letter to the President supporting Presidential exemptions from the federal Clean Air Act requested by 13,900 MW of electric generation in the PJM region. Photos: Keystone and Conemaugh power plants.)

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

On March 21, 2025 surveillance cameras caught the latest incident of conventional oil and gas wastewater being dumped on a section of a dirt road paved with tar and stone chips at about 9:25 p.m. Read more here. Read more here. We wait to see what DEP says.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

1 Pennsylvania Firefly Festival Lottery For 2025 Festival & Glow & Know Campouts Will Start January 1 Federal Highway Administration, Fish & Wildlife Service Host Dec. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

We want to make sure that both workers and the community residents are protected under the guidelines of the Clean Air Act. The pollution amounts that will be associated with the increased operations and increased emissions of pollutants goes into the air we breathe.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2800 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 49 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Reed Oil Company, Inc. 18, 2025 (?). ( Susquehanna County. (

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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. EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

This en banc hearing, approved by a unanimous vote of the Commission on March 27, 2025, examined how to ensure a fair, transparent, and forward-looking approach to connecting high-energy users to the grid while protecting existing utility customers. All comments are due on or before May 27, 2025. M-2025-3054271. million U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

9 Webinar On PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Land-Applied Biosolids - Research Update And Discussion [PaEN] -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb. 12 [PaEN] -- PA Assn. . -- PA Forestry Assn. 138th Annual Symposium - What Makes A Healthy Forest; Awards Program Nov. 26 to Nov. 26 to Nov.

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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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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

. -- Texas Eastern Transmission LP - Perulack Compressor Station: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval covering credits for emission reduction for shutting down certain sources of air pollution at the facility located in Lack Twp., Juniata County. Received May 7, Issued November 5. ( Susquehanna County.

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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

APRIL 21, 2025

The Executive Office of the President published notice in the April 21 Federal Register listing 47 coal and coal-waste fired power plants that are now exempt from f rom a hazardous air pollutant regulation covering mercury and other pollutants for two years. Environmental Protection Agency.

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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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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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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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Acoel

MARCH 20, 2025

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Jeff Civins 10 Reasons Why This Case Is Squirrelly In Port Arthur Community Action Network (PACAN) v. Under the Texas Clean Air Act, an appeal of a TCEQ permit decision typically is to Travis County district court. Third, it was unusual for the case to have gone to the Fifth Circuit.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: March 31, 2025] PA Environment Digest Mercer County DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For A MarkWest Liberty 4.5 PA Environment Daily Blog : Update on PA environmental issues. Click Here for a Calendar of Upcoming Events. Click Here to search back issues of the Digest.

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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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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. Data from California Air Resources Board ACCII rulemaking documents.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

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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. Data from California Air Resources Board ACCII rulemaking documents.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

We share the concerns expressed by former EPA administrators who recently wrote that such cuts would render the agency incapable of protecting Americans from grave threats in our air, water and land. Another credible analysis found the benefits of the Clean Air Act exceeded its costs by more than 30 to one.

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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

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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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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2025

Yesterday, January 21, 2025, the Sabin Center filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National League of Cities (NLC) and the U.S. In particular, we discuss the severe adverse effects that heavy-duty vehicles have on local air pollution and public health in cities, and especially in disadvantaged communities.

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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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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

Meanwhile, EPA has posted a roster of nearly 50 coal-fired power plants that took the administrations offer on the Email us for a free pass on compliance with the Clean Air Act. In 2025, the EU and China will mark 50 years of diplomatic relations. Deep breath. Could something come out of this at COP30?

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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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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

JANUARY 21, 2025

Decades of government vehicle standards to improve vehicle efficiency and cut down on tailpipe pollution have saved car and truck drivers trillions of dollars at the pump, saved countless lives from reduced exposure to toxic air pollution , and avoided the extraction and burning of billions of barrels of oil. In the U.S.,

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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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