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On October 23, 2024, the CleanAir Council and the Environment Integrity Project filed a notice of intent to sue the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for emitting particulate matter (PM 2.5) and nitrogen oxides in violation of the federal CleanAirAct, the state AirPollutionControlAct and the plant's permit. "As
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.
District Court on Monday a proposed consent decree in settlement of their federal CleanAirAct lawsuit against United States Steel Corporation. Steel will pay a $5 million penalty -- by far the largest in a CleanAirAct citizen enforcement suit in Pennsylvania history, and one of the three largest ever nationally.
Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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discussing the ways in which local air districts can take action to end harmful airpollution from building appliances. Reducing appliance emissions is a critical step on the path to healthy air.
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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). Milo Minderbinder would be very pleased. Download as PDF.
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The information may assist states and local airpollutioncontrol agencies, Tribal authorities, and regulated entities in their consideration of technologies and measures that may be implemented to reduce GHG emissions from stationary combustion turbines.
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XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged CleanAirAct and Pennsylvania AirPollutionControlAct violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc.
million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 airpollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollutioncontrols at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9
million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 airpollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollutioncontrols at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9
million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 airpollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollutioncontrols at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9
million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 airpollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollutioncontrols at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9
million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 airpollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollutioncontrols at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9
million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 airpollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollutioncontrols at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9
million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 airpollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in fines and upgrade pollutioncontrols at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., million in 2013. Total to pay $2.9
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CleanAirAct appropriating $2.25 An additional appropriation of $750 million is made for the same set of activities in ports located in nonattainment areas, as designated under Section 107 of the CleanAirAct. States, Indian tribes, and airpollutioncontrol agencies are also eligible for funding.
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. -- A new petition seeks to hold US Steel accountable for their harmful pollution and violation of the CleanAirAct. The Clairton Coke Works was named Allegheny County's number one airpolluter in 2021 , alone releasing over 1.1 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the community’s air supply.
Environmental Protection Agency's ability to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants under the federal CleanAirAct. EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal CleanAirAct and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority.
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State AirPollutionControl Board. Select Steel created something called the rebuttable presumption defense; because emissions do not exceed the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS), the emissions will not have an adverse impact on communities. In a stark contrast to the decision in. Francis Prayer Ctr.
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