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.

2025

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.

Clean Air Act

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.

Natural Gas

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.

2026

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

The 2009 endangerment finding has played a foundational role in Clean Air Act regulation of GHG emissions from both mobile and stationary sources. As the court noted, the Clean Air Act only requires a finding that the air pollution at issue may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.

2009

Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2025

The OBBB Act eliminates the Commercial Clean Vehicle Tax Credit under Section 45W of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) for all vehicles acquired after September 30, 2025. Commercial EVs. Moreover, credits that support the development of new or renovated green housing under Section 45L of the IRC will sunset on June 30, 2026.

2026

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.

Clean Air Act

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.,

Nitrogen Oxides

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.

Air Pollution

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

Conservation

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.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2025

This long struggle to get cleaner air in California is one of necessity; pollution from Californias millions of cars and trucks, combined with its unique climate and geography have led to the state having consistently the worst air pollution in the nation.

Air Pollution

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.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Fossil Fuels

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.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

.] -- The Allegheny Front: Advice From A Youth Climate Organizer; Preview Of Pittsburgh Youth Climate Summit -- StateCollege.com Guest Essay: Youth Know The Direction America Should Take - Im Listening - By Peter Buck, Director of Education At Penn State Sustainability -- Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3

Conservation

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

On June 17, 2025, EPA published a proposed rule to either repeal entirely, or significantly revise, a rule issued in 2024 which set performance standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants to limit their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The court granted that request on April 25, 2025.

Clean Air Act

Acoel

JULY 8, 2025

Posted on July 8, 2025 by Seth D. Because the risks posed by superfund sites pale in comparison to the risks posed by air pollution and broader water pollution issues regulated under the Clean Water Act, I have been and remain deeply skeptical of the Trump administration’s decision to make Superfund EPA’s core mission.

Clean Water Act

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?

Law

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.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

Oh, and this effective government program with years of bipartisan approval, mind you is able to cut pollution by working collaboratively with the private sector on a voluntary system rather than regulating it. But in 2025, everything must be re-litigated. For the first time, fossil fuels provided less than half of U.S.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Project 2025 , the blueprint organized by the Heritage Foundation to guide this White House, calls for an update to the endangerment finding. Many other states in recent years have decided they would follow Californias standards, as they are allowed to under the Clean Air Act.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

That same day, Trump signed a trio of congressional resolutions that improperly seek to vaporize California’s long-standing authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate vehicle pollution to clean our air. That last one got less coverage than it deserves.

Clean Air Act

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.

Carbon Emissions

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

Natural Gas

Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

Skip to main content Scientific American June 12, 2025 7 min read Inside the EPA’s Attempt to Roll Back Climate Regulation The EPA has contradicted itself—and legal precedent—in its bid to undo Biden-era limits on power-plant climate pollution By Jean Chemnick , Niina H. Copyright 2025.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 7, 2025

Source: AirNow The Air Quality Index (AQI), EPA’s tool for reporting air quality, combines monitoring of five major air pollutants regulated by the Clean Air Act, including the particle pollution found in wildfire smoke. Particulates from wildfire smoke, known as PM 2.5,

Ground-Level Ozone

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.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2025

“Health-harming leaks are preventable with diligent monitoring and other standards and practices outlined in the EPA’s recent Clean Air Act methane pollution rule. “We We are greatly disappointed, therefore, that the EPA has moved to push back the date when operators must put these critical pollution safeguards in place.

Regulations

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.

Regulations

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. (

Natural Gas

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.)

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

This funding includes repeal of the provisions in the federal Clean Air Act making funding available for Pennsylvanias MERP conventional oil and gas well plugging program. This includes harms from pollution from carbon-based energy, which medical research finds is the leading environmental threat to childrens health.

Natural Gas

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.

Conservation

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.

2024

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 5190 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 115 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Air Quality Permits - Comment -- Chesapeake Utilities Corp/Eastern Shore Natural Gas Co. Bradford County.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

On March 24, the US Environmental Protection Agency posted information on how industries regulated under a variety of federal Clean Air Act programs could obtain Presidential Exemptions from those requirements. Please: Use Presidential Exemption: [Name of Regulation]: [Facility(ies) Name] as the subject of the request.

Clean Air Act