This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
And while we’ve begun to transition away from oil and gas for our cars and electricity, the oil and gas industry has responded by investing its vast financial resources in a new source of demand for their products: new production for plastic materials and packaging.
National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) : A set of EPA standards on air pollutant emissions of chemicals that could cause serious permanent harm to wildlife or people or kill organic matter. It prohibits the discharge of polluting chemicals into US waters unless a special permit is granted.
EPA’s electric power sector proposal follows nearly ten years of litigation filed by environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) and resulting court-ordered EPA rulemaking. EPA therefore concluded that the electric power industry overall is financially stable, pointing to diversified fuel sources and vertical integration.
For example, EPA under the CleanWaterAct established 129 “ Priority Pollutants ” in 1976, a list of which is a typical analytical suite that you can order as a package. CleanWaterAct. Through this law, water pollution is managed by controlling wastewater discharges. Sponsored Content.
Bartolotta contends the federal Natural Gas Act mandates the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal which challenges any state agencys action in either approving or denying a permit when the state agency acts on the basis of federal law. Read more her e.
This can be developing energy-efficient homes to reduce raw materials burnt to produce electricity or efficiency savings of water resources. President John F Kennedy introduced the CleanAirAct in the US as one of many introduced in developed nations with heavy industry (15). Sponsored Content.
But in this blog post, I unpack an aspect of the decision where I think it was more of a mixed bag: the court’s treatment of the international air pollution provision of the CleanAirAct, Section 115. The court correctly noted that, under the Supreme Court’s holding in American Electric Power v.
The court held that the City’s claims were not completely preempted by the CleanAirAct and also was not persuaded by the companies’ argument that the claims necessarily arose under federal common law. Minnesota Court Affirmed Water Quality Certification for Line 3 Replacement Project.
The Washington Supreme Court concluded that the Washington CleanAirAct did not grant the Department of Ecology authority to regulate indirect greenhouse gas emissions of businesses and utilities whose products ultimately generate such emissions. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.
Agency , the Supreme Court formally announced its embrace of the MQD, holding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not have authority to issue a greenhouse gas emissions rule that shifted electricity generation away from coal. The West Virginia majority opinion suggests a two-prong framework for the major questions doctrine.
First, the court said the cities’ novel theories of liability based on the defendants’ sales of their product did not differentiate their claims from earlier transboundary pollution suits in which the Supreme Court ( American Electric Power Co. Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp.
The court said that having remanded to the Corps for consultation under the Endangered Species Act, it was not necessary to determine whether the Corps “made a fully informed and well-considered decision” under NEPA and the CleanWaterAct. 2:19-cv-120 (N.D.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of a preliminary injunction to block construction of a segment of an electric transmission power corridor in Maine that would be part of a project to carry electricity from Quebec to Massachusetts, including electricity generated by hydropower. May 24, 2021).
billion for electric grid resilience and infrastructure improvements, $7.5 billion for electric vehicle charging infrastructure and $27 billion for clean energy research, development, demonstration and commercialization. It’s seen as a way to quickly increase clean energy use without hiking electric bills for consumers.
Regan and the EPA’s top water official, Radhika Fox, announced that the agency will hold listening sessions across the country this summer and fall to seek stakeholder input about how the agency should define streams and wetlands under the CleanWaterAct. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, CleanAirAct Citizen Suit.
The CleanAirAct provision at issue authorizes small refineries to petition EPA “for an extension of the exemption … for the reason of disproportionate economic hardship.” In re Hawaiian Electric Co. , EPA granted the extensions after a “lull” during which the refineries were not subject to exemptions. June 29, 2021).
The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. Army Corps of Engineers’ motion to hold in abeyance a case challenging the Trump administration’s rules defining “waters of the United States” under the CleanWaterAct.
The Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for CleanWaterAct permitting, dams, aquatic ecosystem restoration projects and other issues. EPA – Board of Scientific Counselors Safe and Sustainable Water Resources Subcommittee Meeting-May 2021 (May 26 & 27, comments due May 25). Justice Dept. Justice Dept.
Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI) are promoting a separate $10 trillion decade-spanning green infrastructure plan, which sets a goal of 100% zero-carbon electricity by 2035, while creating 15.5 EPA – CleanAirAct Advisory Committee (CAAAC): Request for Nominations. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Reps. million jobs a year.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced that the agency will rewrite a Trump administration regulation that limited state’s ability to block pipeline and fossil fuel export facilities under the CleanWaterAct. FERC – Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and Electric System Reliability Technical Conference (June 1 & 2).
as a pollutant at all to the Clean Power Plan, which has no chance of clemency before its swift execution at some point in 2017. [14]. that it should “Amend the CleanAirAct to clarify that it never delegated to the EPA the authority to enact climate policies through the Act.”. [18].
The final rule also adopted an interpretation of CleanAirAct Section 111 that required, as a predicate to establishing NSPS, a determination by EPA that a pollutant causes or contributes significantly to dangerous air pollution. Missouri v. Biden , No. 4:21-cv-00287 (E.D.
Part 419 (under CleanWaterAct) 40 C.F.R. 60.5525a(c)(3) (under CleanAirAct): Allows fossil fuel-fired power plants to continue operating during a system emergency, even if they are not in compliance with emissions performance standards. 1742, 1748a. Generating fossil fuel energy: 40 C.F.R.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 12,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content