Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

On October 17, 2022, the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed finding that lead air pollution may reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health and welfare within the meaning of Section 231(a) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

and numerous affiliated companies (collectively, GWRSI) for violation of Clean Air Act (CAA) locomotive regulations. The settlement is expected to reduce tons of nitrogen oxide and particulate matter pollution and improve air quality where their trains operate.”

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Clean Air Act Title V public notices as barriers to environmental justice.” link] Highlights Abstract The Clean Air Act’s Title V program offers opportunities for the public to participate in … Continue reading Lessons from a plain language analysis: U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 27, 2024

The Inherent Limitations of Citizen Suits in Remedying Environmental Injustice Under the Clean Air Act.” The inherent limitations of citizen suits in remedying environmental injustice under the Clean Air Act George, Alexandra M. “Can We Really Be the Change We Wish to See?

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

Clean Air Act. This law, signed on the first day of 1970, requires agencies to disclose the environmental effects of their actions. This marked the beginning of a decade of legislative environmental legislation. NEPA remains the workhorse of natural resource litigation today.

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MGKF Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Read More » Tags: Administrative Appeals , Citizen Suit , Clean Air Act , Sixth Circuit , Standing Sierra Club et al. 21-3057, 2023 WL 1873168, at * 1 (6th Cir.

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Environment Next

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In a case that could open the door to more citizen suits to enforce mobile source provisions of the Clean Air Act—a category of enforcement actions that has so far failed to gain much traction—the 10 th Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an opinion broadly upholding a non-profit organization’s standing.

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MGKF Law

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Academy Bus , a Massachusetts District Court held that the members of the Conservation Law Foundation (the “Foundation”) lacked standing to challenge the idling of buses under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”). Conservation Law Found. Express , LLC. , 20-10032-WGY, 2023 WL 5984517, at *1 (D.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On November 17, Erie Coke Corporation, along with a corporate officer, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on among other charges, Violation of the Clean Air Act, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today. The eight-count Indictment, returned on Nov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

What does the Clean Air Act say about emissions tampering? The Clean Air Act is crystal clear: no one is allowed to tamper with the emissions controls of a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine, full stop ( 42 U.S.C. 7522(a)(3) ). No, EPA is not coming for your race car.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 18, 2023

The settlement includes the largest civil penalty in a stationary source settlement since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970.

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MGKF Law

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Academy Bus , a Massachusetts District Court held that the members of the Conservation Law Foundation (the “Foundation”) lacked standing to challenge the idling of buses under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”). Conservation Law Found. Express , LLC. , 20-10032-WGY, 2023 WL 5984517, at *1 (D.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 28, 2024

For example, there’s a current challenge to EPA’s waiver under the Clean Air Act for the Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulations (ACT), which require that zero-emission trucks represent an increasing proportion of in-state heavy-duty truck sales. (A

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

rule is a good step, but more is needed The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to periodically review the science for six criteria air pollutants , including particulate matter, and to use this science to set a standard known as the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. EPA’s PM 2.5 American Trucking Associations.

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Scientific American

APRIL 22, 2024

The Biden administration is marking Earth Week with announcements of solar power funding for lower-income communities, an expansion of the Climate Corps and Clean Air Act rules

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2024

We also found that co-located sterilization facilities, facilities in communities with higher cancer risks, and facilities that have violated the Clean Air Act are disproportionately near people of color, illustrating the vast disparities of who this pollutant impacts most. You can find our report and interactive map here.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2022

Earlier this year, a team of economists published a retrospective paper on the Clean Air Act. Some of the findings are not surprises: stricter regulations actually do result in improved air quality. The grandfather of emission trading programs is the SO2 program created by the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Standing based on climate impacts C. Social Cost of Carbon D. Co-benefits E. Climate science F. Climate justice II.

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Legal Planet

JULY 2, 2024

” This actually pretty typical language in environmental statutes,, such as section 202 of the Clean Air Act, which EPA has used to limit carbon emissions from cars. The Court summarizes that section as saying: “Whenever, in the judgment of the [Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)] Administrator.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

If signed, the state would have to withdraw Clean Air Act waiver requests already in process with the Environmental Protection Agency. These four bills would introduce unnecessary delays, conditions, and exceptions into the ACF and CHC standards, weakening California’s ability to combat the diesel pollution crisis.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. But a closer read suggests more sweeping, longer-term implications for incentivizing the development of clean energy projects nationwide. What does this mean for clean energy projects? What is the case about? .

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 18, 2023

Congress required in the Clean Air Act that EPA develop guidelines for determining BART. The EPA’s final rule confirms that the agency treated the guidelines as binding for Wyodak and disregarded the state’s broad discretion under the Clean Air Act. The role of the BART guidelines is a curious one.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On October 23, 2024, the Clean Air 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 Clean Air Act, the state Air Pollution Control Act and the plant's permit. "As

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

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. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2024

Steel has permanently shut down coke Battery 15, one of the oldest and most-polluting parts of the Clairton Coke Works, and has formally applied to the Allegheny County Health Department to remove the battery from its Clean Air Act permits.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

discussing the ways in which local air districts can take action to end harmful air pollution from building appliances. As we explained in our brief, under the federal Clean Air Act, states are required to submit SIPs detailing strategies to come into attainment with federal air quality standards for pollutants like ozone and PM2.5.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The case involved the lynchpin of the Clean Air Act, EPA’s power to set national air quality standards. The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. Among other things, the Clean Air Act gives federal protection to wetlands.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 7, 2023

One tries to combine two lines of precedent to argue that state liability rules were preempted by federal liability rules, but that the federal liability rules themselves were displaced by the Clean Air Act so no basis for liability remains. I don’t expect this argument to win in state court.

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Vorys Law

JUNE 28, 2024

EPA and granted the stay of a USEPA plan designed to require several States, including Ohio, to comply with the “Good Neighbor” provision of the Clean Air Act. On June 27, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a final decision in Ohio v.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2024

DEP said in the notice the change is required to meet federal Clean Air Act requirements and because submission requirements in state regulations provided two different deadlines.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

Attorney's Office in Western PA indicted the Erie Coke Corporation and the former plant superintendent on criminal charges of violating the federal Clean Air Act. Of Justice Indicts Erie Coke (Coal) And Corporate Officer For Violating Federal Clean Air Act Over 4 Years -- U.S. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

California has a longstanding leadership role on transportation pollution, and the Clean Air Act grants the state the right to set strong vehicle emissions standards. While the waiver addresses California’s ability to enforce its rules, the Clean Air Act also allows other states the ability to adopt California’s policies.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

On January 26, PennEnvironment and Clean Air Council announced they will file in U.S. District Court on Monday a proposed consent decree in settlement of their federal Clean Air Act lawsuit against United States Steel Corporation. The agreement mandates that U.S. Most of the penalty money ($4.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. And here, the Court has struck a devastating blow.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 7, 2023

Clean Air Act emissions limits will remain in place for a category of facilities that includes small MSW combustors and certain institutional waste incinerators after Monday’s decision. Read the full story at Waste Dive.

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Legal Planet

JULY 11, 2024

Thus, “the holdings of those cases that specific agency actions are lawful—in­cluding the Clean Air Act holding of Chevron itself—are still subject to statutory stare decisis [Latin for standing by past decisions] despite our change interpretive methodology.”

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 23, 2013

According to GenOn, EPA’s action offended the cooperative federalism structure of the Clean Air Act by undermining a state’s power to determine how to achieve air control standards. at 27 (quoting 42 U.S.C. 7426(c)).

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