PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

The total civil penalty assessments include $350,000 for air quality violations, which is the maximum civil penalty assessment allowable under the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act, and $764,000 pursuant to Pennsylvania’s oil and gas and solid waste laws.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. The proposed rule would provide de minimus air quality benefits in downwind areas with extremely high costs – estimated by EPA at $22 billion discounted 2016 dollars for the 2023-2042 period. enjoyed ozone reductions of 3 to 5 ppb or more. ppb by 2025. EPA estimated that: .

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 24, 2012

Wiegand On August 21, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR). CSAPR would have required many states, including Louisiana and Texas, to reduce power plant emissions of SO 2 and NO x , particularly during the summer ozone season.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Specifically, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) requires 27 states, including Louisiana and Texas, to make dramatic cuts in power plant emissions. Emissions reductions will take effect quickly, starting January 1, 2012 for SO2 and annual NOx reductions, and May 1, 2012 for ozone season (May-September) NOx reductions.

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Vorys Law

JANUARY 26, 2021

On January 20, 2021, the Ohio EPA’s Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC) hosted a “Program Advisory Group” (PAG) meeting via Microsoft Teams to inform interested stakeholders of recent and upcoming DAPC activities. This post focuses on Ohio EPA’s anticipated regulatory changes to address non-attainment of the 2015 Ozone NAAQS.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As the law takes effect this winter, we all — including you! — A key critique of California's Cap & Trade program has been that it hasn’t reduced health-harming criteria pollutants , including carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, and particulates. What are overburdened communities?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

However, EPA is also undertaking a range of parallel rulemakings focused on other major power plant pollutants of concern, especially as they relate to public health. Despite the concerningly broad implications of the West Virginia v. Each rule is moving independently, but they all impact power plant operations.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The EPA’s cap-and-trade program to control smog in the Central and Eastern United States is lawful and wise, and the Supreme Court should overturn the D.C. Every year, about 200,000 Americans die from smog, which is a mix of ozone and fine particulates (PM. Many cities in the Northeast fail ozone and PM. By Dr. Albert Monroe .

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Co Benefits for Human Health : Methane is a key precursor of tropospheric ozone (ground level), a harmful air pollutant. Increased methane emissions are responsible for more than half of the observed increase in tropospheric ozone levels.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Summary: Green-roof zoning laws may provide a solution to the Urban Heat Island Effect, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change through heat pollution originating from large cities. US legislators may follow the lead of Stuttgart, Germany, where exemplary city-greening zoning laws have greatly reduced urban pollution.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Air pollution generally has many proven. including urban photochemical smog, acid rain and increased tropospheric ozone, and climate change at the local, regional, and global level respectively. Air pollution also. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. carbon dioxide. environmental effects.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

I named the Priority Pollutants a moment ago, which are 129 chemicals of interest under the Clean Water Act, RCRA, one of two federal laws governing hazardous wastes has several hundred “Appendix IX” groundwater monitoring compounds. I will organize my discussion by key laws. Each law has thousands of regulations.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 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. We remain steadfast in our efforts to protect the people of western Pennsylvania and the air they breathe.”

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Other air quality provisions expedite permitting and construction of new or expanded sources of air pollutants. Some background — As required by the Clean Air Act, North Carolina has a State Implementation Plan (SIP) for ozone pollution describing how the state will meet the federal ozone standard.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

The following factsheet on asthma and air pollution from natural gas facilities was compiled by the Environmental Health Project -- Asthma is a chronic disease that affects breathing. Asthma attacks, also known as exacerbations, may be triggered by indoor and outdoor air pollution, stress, and other physical and environmental factors.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This law provides loan forgiveness for developing countries that meet specific benchmarks and agree to contribute to tropical forest and coral reef conservation. US law protecting endangered species hampered by poor resources, study says – The Guardian. Another amendment from Sen. Executive Branch.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 27, 2022

EPA also used satellite studies of the effect of the COVID lockdown, with its traffic reduction, on local pollution, which found that the lockdown resulted in the greatest pollution reductions in areas with higher concentrations of people of color. and ozone concentrations as a result of the standards.”.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 10, 2023

Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to EPA’s “Revised Cross-State Air Pollution Update Rule”. In short, EPA still gets substantial deference in its technical judgments, and sometimes it’s more important to get those judgments into law than it is to refine them until they are perfect. Last week, D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The study-- Hazardous Air Pollutants In Transmission Pipeline Natural Gas: An Analytic Assessment -- was accepted for publication in Environmental Research Letters journal September 16. blowdowns and blowouts), which we now know not only contains methane, but also Hazardous Air Pollutants and other chemicals.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2022

An objection to that regulation was raised by the Republicans on the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee questioning whether the regulation met the requirements of a 2016 law (Act 52) requiring separate regulations for conventional oil and gas operations. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

An objection to that regulation was raised by the Republicans on the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee questioning whether the regulation met the requirements of a 2016 law (Act 52) requiring separate regulations for conventional oil and gas operations. Read more here. The Preamble to the revised rulemaking says “.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. What Do Communities Experience Now, what's a community's experience?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Recently, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report that will likely have major effects on how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) protects people from dangerous air pollutants. At issue is the EPA’s process of compiling what the agency calls an “integrated science assessment.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This, along with many other chemicals, like diesel particulates and ground-level ozone that form soot and smog, and metals like lead in paint and drinking water, are regulated by the EPA to keep us safe. PFAS is shorthand for a class of “forever chemicals” that persist in the environment indefinitely.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

Major oil and gas infrastructure facilities could be covered by the amended legislation if they are considered a major source of hazardous air pollutants, criteria pollutants or are subject to prevention of significant deterioration or nonattainment new source review under existing regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2022

the Department will develop a separate rulemaking for the RACT requirements for sources of VOC emissions installed at conventional well sites” since the regulations covering oil and gas facilities are being promulgated to attain both the federal 2008 and 2015 ozone standard. The Preamble to the revised rulemaking says “. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Understanding the Endangerment Finding Two requirements must be met before a substance can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. First, it has to qualify as an air pollutant. There, the Court said that EPA had to consider cost when EPA applied a law that authorized EPA to issue appropriate regulations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

On June 5, the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held a hearing on House Bill 652 (Bullock-D-Philadelphia) requiring an evaluation of the cumulative impacts of certain electric generation, waste management, sewage treatment facilities and major sources of air pollution proposed in communities already burdened by pollution.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Because the challengers did not explain how the discrepancy would impact estimates of air pollution, according to the majority, their challenge based on this discrepancy failed to undermine the validity of the environmental assessment. There’s a lot of back and forth about just where these numbers came from and how FAA used them.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released. These air pollutants include such things as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene. “I Read more here ] “Every day, Pennsylvania residents’ health and safety are at unnecessary risk due to outdated laws.” “To

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2024

EPA also granted another waiver for something called the Omnibus Low NOx rule, submitted more than two years ago, which would require trucks to cut NOx pollution by 90 percent below current levels. In granting the waiver, EPA made clear that the California program will cut the air pollutants that cause smog dramatically.

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Environment, Law, and History

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Here’s what EPA has to say on the subject — and remember, this is from the Trump EPA, which is no fan of regulation: Experience with the Clean Air Act since 1970 has shown that protecting public health and building the economy can go hand in hand.

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