Law Columbia

AUGUST 3, 2018

The SAFE Vehicle Rule proposes changes to EPA’s greenhouse gas emissions standards and DOT’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for light duty vehicles in model years (MY) 2021 through 2025. To support that argument, the agencies point to a study estimating that average vehicle prices could increase by up to $2,100 by 2025.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Act 14 Notices To Municipalities Many communities and citizens are not aware that a state law passed in 1984 gives them the first chance to comment on Department of Environmental Protection permit applications even before they are submitted to the agency.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 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

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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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

USA: Stop the Formosa Plastics Plant Coalition Against Death Alley | 2021 As part of the fossil fuel industry’s push to increase North American plastic production by 35 percent by 2025(1), Formosa Plastics is planning to build a massive petrochemical industrial complex in St. James Parish, Louisiana. USA: Formosa Plastics Corp.,

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This secret of the federal government is why I’m so baffled by Project 2025’s proposal to give the President the power (through something called “Schedule F”) to convert as many as 50,000 jobs in the federal government from career positions to political ones. Rulemaking includes repealing a regulation. It’s true across agencies.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The approvals were granted under SRBC regulation 18 CFR 806.22(e) This brings the total general water permits approved by the SRBC in 2024 to 274. Read more here. e) and (f) that creates a general permit-type process to grant approval for water use by individual shale gas drilling pads. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”). State regulations often do not require the use of such systems.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2021

mpg by 2025. – SAFE Part 1 was challenged by a bevy of states—California and a number of states who follow, or have expressed intent to follow, California’s standards pursuant to Section 177 of the Clean Air Act—and environmental groups, while some automakers and industry groups joined the fray on the side of the federal government. .

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Law and Environment

JUNE 11, 2021

exposure through our climate change regulation. Either way, the requirement to set NAAQS remains at the core of the Clean Air Act. By the time state implementation plans are revised to include measures to attain the new NAAQS, it will be sometime in 2025 or 2026. We can reduce PM 2.5

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. For weeks, we’ve seen headlines about “Biden going big on regulating power plants” and “Biden’s aggressive new rule for power plants” as if it were simply a White House strategy.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As of November 15, the Department of Environmental Protection issued owners of conventional oil and gas wells 6,907 violations for violating state laws and regulations, exceeding the 6,860 violations issued in all of 2023. And, there are five+ weeks left in 2024. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

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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. that is responsible for regulating the CAFE standards, which were originally created in the 1970s to reduce dependence on foreign oil. Section 202. Nissan and Honda.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In the landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2016 (AB32), California established the goal of limiting statewide GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The legislation directed the Air Resources Board (ARB) to adopt regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost?effective mpg by 2025.

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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. This blog post summarizes the history of federal vehicle emissions regulations, the arguments made by Petitioners in Texas v. The brief is available here.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. Table of Contents. Draft Contaminant Candidate List Included All PFAS.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2024

In the second quarter of 2024, Supreme Court decisions threatened the future of regulations based on science, EPA faced criticism for its response to the East Palestine disaster, and multiple agencies addressed the spread of bird flu. Six justices’ decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. Like the West Virginia v.

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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. And, there are five+ weeks left in 2024. Read more here. Read more here. Violations were issued.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

12 On Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Reductions; Hydrogen Hubs [PaEN] -- WHYY: ‘No Seat At The Table:’ Why Environmental Justice Activists Like Zulene Mayfield Fear Republican Presidential Win -- Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov. Shapiro -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

Greg Vitali, Majority Chair House Environmental Committee -- DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets March 19 On Drinking Water Supply Impacts From Drilling; New Financial Assurance Strategies To Prevent Abandonment; Draft Spill Policy; Injection Well Primacy; Much More [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front/PublicSource: Pittsburgh-Based EQT Gas Drilling Expansion (..)

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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. Muzzle environmental reviews.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington Supreme Court Invalidated Regulation of Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Association of Washington Business v. 95885-8 (Wash.

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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. Martin -- DEP Awards $2.55

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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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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. PFAS Accountability Act of 2021 Would Create Federal Cause of Action for PFAS Exposure.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

The President also instructed agency heads to review and consider revising all regulations issued and agency actions taken during the Trump administration, in addition to highlighting specific rules that must be reconsidered. On Inauguration Day, the United States also began the process of rejoining the Paris Agreement.

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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

The law does not require the federal government to do much itself to regulate emissions, but rather leverages monetary tools to enable others – cities included – to advance decarbonization and other emissions reduction strategies. Raimondo stand to vastly curtail their authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

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ESA

JANUARY 10, 2022

Chesapeake Bay states are unlikely to reach EPA’s 2025 cleanup deadline at current pace, report finds – The Baltimore Sun. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Feb. US judge blocks work at Nevada geothermal plant for 90 days – Associated Press. BLM – Alaska Resource Advisory Council Meetings (Feb.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. I’m not including laws that simply incentivize clean energy or those that fund pure science, even though both are vitally important parts of climate policy.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office in January 2025, his second presidency will have widespread implications for the energy industry, especially new investments, but not necessarily in the ways his supporters might expect. Negotiations on the 2025 tax bill will implicate many of the IRA’s provisions.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

PFOA and PFOS Drinking Water Regulations Back On and Only the Beginning. In the final days of the Trump Administration, EPA issued final determinations to regulate PFOA and PFOS in drinking water under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), a process the Agency started in 2018.

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ESA

APRIL 18, 2023

Planning requires the expertise of ecologists, landscape architects, environmental planners, and environmental engineers, and can be incentivized by local regulations. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Request for Nominations. The deadline for submitting all nominations to EPA is April 24, 2023.

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ESA

APRIL 27, 2023

Planning requires the expertise of ecologists, landscape architects, environmental planners, and environmental engineers, and can be incentivized by local regulations. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Request for Nominations. The deadline for submitting all nominations to EPA is April 24, 2023.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

One example is the Trump administration’s early decision to eliminate California’s ability to set motor vehicle emission standards more stringent than those USEPA adopts for most of the nation–as explicitly contemplated by Congress under section 209 of the federal Clean Air Act.

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC): Request for Nominations. Forest Service & FWS – Subsistence Management Regulations for Public Lands in Alaska-2024-25 and 2025-26 Subsistence Taking of Wildlife Regulations , Comments should be submitted to the Service Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S.

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