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Shell Petrochemical Plant Penalties In May 2023, the Shell Petrochemical Plant served by the pipeline signed a consent order that included over $17 million in penalties to resolve airpollution violations-- over $12.6 million in penalty payments and $5 million in local community environmental restoration funding. Read more here.
The Clean Power Plan was based on section 111(d) of the CleanAirAct. There’s been a lot of discussion among academics and advocates about instead using section 115 of the CleanAirAct as a basis for carbon regulations. Here are the options going forward for regulating existing power plants.
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May 11, the Environmental Integrity Project and CleanAir Council filed a federal lawsuit against the Shell Petrochemical Plant for repeatedly violating permitted airpollution limits from a massive new plastics production plant in Beaver County, which opened last year. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S.
On February 2, the Environmental Integrity Project and CleanAir Council filed a notice of intent to sue Shell Chemical Appalachia for repeated violations of airpollution permit limits at its petrochemical plant in Beaver County.
Seth Grove (R-York) introduced House Bill 2444 that contains a naturalgas industry wish list of measures they want to expand naturalgas drilling, subsidize pipeline expansion using DCNR Oil and Gas Fund revenue, automatically approve of well permits and preempting local government regulation of all facilities regulated by DEP.
On February 17, the CleanAir Council and the Environmental Integrity Project sent a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection urging the state to temporarily halt operations at a Shell plastics chemical plant in Beaver County that has repeatedly violated airpollution limits and recently released plumes of black smoke for several hours.
discussing the ways in which local air districts can take action to end harmful airpollution from building appliances. While the SIP submittal maintained that air district standards already on the books—none of which were zero-emission standards—satisfied BACM demonstration requirements, EPA disagreed.
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DEP said in the notice the change is required to meet federal CleanAirAct requirements and because submission requirements in state regulations provided two different deadlines. Read the entire PA Bulletin notice for more information.
The court overturned a District Court ruling to invalidate a Berkeley, California, prohibition on naturalgas infrastructure in newly-constructed buildings. Berkeley’s so-called “naturalgas ban” was the first local ordinance in the country to effectively require all-electric construction of new buildings.
CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the CleanAirAct and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. at 528–529. 7411(b)(1)(B); see also §7411(a)(2). That description of the holding in AEP v.
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