Air Pollution Politics Pollution Control 
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. Politically, what has happened to coal jobs may be more salient. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. But this could only have a contributing factor.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
In effect, the Court argued that for decisions of “such economic and political significance”—here, shifting electricity generation from one resource to another—there must be clear congressional authorization. In issuing its decision , the majority relied upon a new-to-the-Supreme-Court framework called the “major questions doctrine.”
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PA Environment Daily
MARCH 11, 2022
.] -- “Exempt Pennsylvania from plant-closing EPA regulations such as the Wastewater Rule and the Cross State Air Pollution Rule.” [ Note: That’s not the way it works. The proposals in this co-sponsor memo are a good example of political “dog whistles.” A state cannot exempt itself from a federal law or regulation.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 30, 2022
Joe fought tirelessly to raise awareness on urban air pollution in the1980’s by establishing and distributing a daily regional air quality index report that is still used today. And in the early 2000’s when fracking was falsely seen as transitional energy, Joe purposely grew the legal team to oppose natural gas expansion.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
13, 14, 15 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 11:00: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 2075 (Knowles-R- Schuylkill) abrogating DEP’s air pollution control regulations covering heavy-duty trucks [Note: DEP already suspended enforcement of these regulations November 6 - Read more here.];
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 28, 2025
Dick Thornburgh [PaEN] 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables -- Reuters: US Natural Gas Prices Climb 2% On Decline In Daily Output, Record LNG Gas Flows New Federal Administration -- The Allegheny Front: Farmers Were Counting On Clean Energy Grants, Then Presidents USDA Moved The Goalposts -- WHYY: More EPA Grant Terminations (..)
The Energy Law
JULY 23, 2013
In the recent ruling, the Third Circuit held that it was reasonable for EPA to interpret Section 126(b) to be an “independent mechanism for enforcing interstate pollution control,” thereby giving EPA authority to directly regulate a specific source in an upwind state. See GenOn REMA, LLC v. 12-1022, slip op. at 29 (3d Cir.
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