Air Pollution Environmental Protection Law 
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
When we breathe the air or drink the water, we’re taking in any potential contaminants all at once—with effects that can combine or even compound. These documents describe how the EPA understands their legal authorities to assess and address cumulative impacts and environmental justice. It’s important to look at the bigger picture.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on a new State Only Minor Air Quality Operating Permit for the continued operation of the ETC Northeast Pipeline LLC [Energy Transfer] Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Processing Plant in Salem Township, Washington County. ( Read more here.
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PA Environment Daily
MAY 11, 2023
May 11, the Environmental Integrity Project and Clean Air Council filed a federal lawsuit against the Shell Petrochemical Plant for repeatedly violating permitted air pollution limits from a massive new plastics production plant in Beaver County, which opened last year. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
On February 17, the Clean Air 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 air pollution limits and recently released plumes of black smoke for several hours.
MGKF Law
AUGUST 2, 2023
On July 25, 2023, a Third Circuit panel rejected an environmental group’s challenge of federally approved changes to Pennsylvania’s State Implementation Plan (“SIP”), holding that the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) emissions-based analysis did not violate the Clean Air Act (“CAA”).
Greenbuilding Law
JULY 4, 2021
With that wide public sentiment for fireworks, there is actually almost no environmental regulation for the setting off of millions of little explosions of the more than 99% of fireworks imported from China. Congress has legislated the treatment of air quality data influenced by exceptional events, which includes fireworks.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 20, 2024
Diesel school buses – which represent the majority of school buses – were not only sending out toxic fumes from the tailpipe, but pollution was getting inside the buses, exposing children to unhealthy air. Electric school buses are the best choice for reducing emissions that pollute our air and harm our health.
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