Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 8, 2025

Electric vehicle (EV) sales are increasing , and these vehicles are important to reduce fossil fuel use and air pollution. 5 years of stakeholder discussions The progress of SB 615 bill over the legislative session will determine if a comprehensive EV battery recycling policy will finally be made law in California.

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NRDC

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Renewable Rikers coalition tells DEC that Rikers power plant permit conflicts with both city law mandating closure of Rikers jails by 2027 and state climate law

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Davis Law Review will host a most timely conference examining an environmental crisis facing many of the American West’s iconic “terminal lakes.” Davis School of Law (a.k.a. Davis Law Review organizers at ucd.lawrev.symp@gmail.com. ” That term refers to lakes that have no natural outlet. salt content).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Its a daily litany of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells. 27 Released 1.1 26 to Sept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act), as a result, EPA programs are often implemented narrowly, not holistically.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced plans to introduce legislation to prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set more protective standards on the development of natural gas than required in state or federal law and while a challenge to local restrictions is being litigated. 16 [PaEN] -- EPA Files $4.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2024

The principle states that, when the language of a law is ambiguous, experts at federal agencies can interpret it to create rules to implement and enforce the law. In SEC v Jarkesy, a 6-3 majority undermined federal agencies’ ability to enforce laws by issuing fines to individuals or organizations that break those laws.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The California Legislature recently enacted, and Governor Gavin Newsom last week signed into law, two major housing reform measures. SB 9 and SB 10 represent California’s most transformative new housing laws in decades, and are a belated but welcome legislative response to the state’s longstanding housing crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 20, 2024

To supercharge the transition to clean school buses, Congress amended and reinvigorated the Clean School Bus Program with a $5 billion dollars over 5 years investment as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law). Why not 100 percent? The figure below shows the results.

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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.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2023

In addition to the unequal impacts of air pollution from highways, people of color and people in poverty are less likely to have access to private transportation than other groups, meaning that highway improvements themselves can be of differential benefit. appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

The closest we’ve ever come to a carbon tax is a limited fee on methane emissions under the new IRA law. It would provide an incentive for cutting carbon emissions, with the byproduct of cutting air pollution everywhere. State law and federal bonding requirements have not proved equal to the task of clean up.

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Environment, Law, and History

JANUARY 12, 2023

Farber focuses on US Supreme Court decisions, finding its earliest uses of "air pollution" and "water pollution" and references to wilderness as something worthy of preservation in decisions from the 1960s. Wolfe, Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District vehicle, Burbank, 1947-1950?

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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.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

UCLA Professor of Law William Boyd. William Boyd is Professor of Law and Michael J. Klein Chair in Law at UCLA Law, with a joint appointment as Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability ; Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA Law. UCLA Professor of Law Alex Wang.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In February 2023, the Tokyo District Court found that the Notice of Finalization, which had been issued through a simplified permitting procedure, was lawful. Since climate change affects people globally, distinguishing plaintiffs from the rest of the population will likely remain an issue for establishing standing under administrative law.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

District Court on Monday a proposed consent decree in settlement of their federal Clean Air Act lawsuit against United States Steel Corporation. Clean air is a right, not a privilege, for all Pittsburghers,” said David Masur, executive director of PennEnvironment , the citizen-based non-profit and state group for Environment America.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 28, 2024

In the case of ACT, the public health and environmental consequences are high: The diesel engines that the rule is seeking to replace cause serious air pollution in some of the state’s most pollution-overburdened communities, which are primarily low-income communities of color.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

With the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Tuesday Aug 16, the most significant climate legislation in US federal history (so far) became law. Despite the odd name (and greatly overused TLA ), the IRA contains a huge number of elements, totalling roughly $350 billion of investment, in climate solutions over the next ten years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

To explore a small piece of what is at stake, let’s take a quick look at some of the rules currently under review at the EPA: Air emission reporting requirements If finalized and implemented, this rule will improve the way air pollution emissions are estimated and collected by the EPA.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2380 ) -- Columbia Gas Trans LLC - Eagle Compressor Station: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan approval covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in West Vincent Twp., Received Dec. 27, Issued Jan. Chester County. Received Feb. 21, Issued March 7. ( Washington County. Received Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- Williams Field Services Company, LLC - White Compressor Station: DEP renewed the GP-5 General Air Quality Permit covering multiple air pollution sources for the facility located in Springville Twp., Susquehanna County. Application received Sept. 30, 2024, approved Oct. 9, 2024. ( Susquehanna County.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

On February 2, the Environmental Integrity Project and Clean Air Council filed a notice of intent to sue Shell Chemical Appalachia for repeated violations of air pollution permit limits at its petrochemical plant in Beaver County. We can’t allow these pollution events to become the cost of doing business.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Municipal zoning laws, meanwhile, allowed companies to build power plants and other industrial facilities in those same neighborhoods. First, there’s air pollution. Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As a result of the operation of law, the final RGGI regulation was deemed approved. If Pennsylvania cannot join RGGI until July 1, 2022, [DEP] estimates that Pennsylvania will lose approximately $283 million in proceeds and associated air pollution reductions.” In addition, DEP argues, as Gov.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2023

There are Supreme Court cases going back a century or more dealing with what we would now consider environmental issues such as preserving nature or air pollution. It was only once that shift was made that we could begin to think of contaminated rivers, smog, and clearcutting as part of the same body of law. City of Detroit.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 4, 2023

Cutting fossil fuels out of new buildings will reduce indoor air pollution , help prevent natural-gas explosions and leaks , and contribute to the fight against climate change, which is already impacting Los Angeles residents—especially low-income and non-White people. And getting buildings to use electric appliances isn’t enough.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 7398 ) Air Quality Permits -- Equitrans, LP - Denny Hill Road Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on a Title V/RACT III Air Quality permit covering multiple air pollution sources at the facility located in Jefferson Twp., Deemed complete Oct. Greene County. ( Greene County. Approved Oct.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In a major win for community members in South Memphis, Tennessee, a facility emitting a toxic air pollutant— ethylene oxide (EtO)—announced late last month that it will close its doors. Community members quickly came together and a local grassroots group, Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP), began to sound the alarm.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2022

On Monday, environmental-justice advocates filed a petition drafted by two of our amazing UCLA Environmental Law Clinic students, Sarah Repko and Monica Heger, opening litigation to improve monitoring of petroleum refineries in Southern California. California, which is the third-largest refiner of crude oil in the U.S., Download as PDF.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 23, 2021

Urban air pollution kills millions of people around the world. We will also get rid of coal mines and oil wells, which produce other kinds of pollution today. It’s already become clear that this isn’t just a matter of strengthening traditional international institutions or laws. Accomplishing that will be no easy feat.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The same is true in environmental law. Was it a fundamental paradigm shift, re-centering the law on new values? With all this in mind, here are the cases that I see as making up the canon and anti-canons of environmental law. The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

That means they are going to politicians with their hand out to receive more of your tax dollars with nothing to show for it except receipts from past failures like leaking pipelines, harmful air pollution, and dangerous explosions. It’s focused on increasing the price of natural gas to increase its bottom line. Bartolotta, Sen.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

Months ago, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an “emergency” request to stay EPA’s new rule regulating interstate air pollution. A Supreme Court case called EME Homer upheld EPA’s general approach to regulating interstate air pollution. By law, that suit had to be brought in the D.C.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The country meets seven of the nine criteria, including an extensive low-lying coastline, areas prone to natural disasters, areas susceptible to drought and desertification, and urban areas with high air pollution. Conclusions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2025

The amendment would cover pollution from major oil and gas infrastructure and pipelines, power plants and many other facilities that emit these air pollutants. The amendment would cover pollution from major oil and gas infrastructure and pipelines, power plants and many other facilities that emit these air pollutants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Even when accounting for pollution from electricity generation, electric trucks can significantly reduce air pollution and get us on a better track to addressing climate change.

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