Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It attempted to move away from fossil fuels and toward zero-carbon sources like solar power to supply electricity. The Clean Power Plan was based on section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. The Plan has been overtaken by later events, and it seems clear that the Supreme Court is determined to kill it off.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Another development with multi-state implications involves electric vehicles. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the unique ability to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from new vehicles, including greenhouse gases. Other states can then piggyback on California’s efforts. Oregon seems likely to do so soon.

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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. Please authorize these rules and allow us to begin transitioning to cleaner air as soon as possible. Washington.

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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. In short: We need to clean up the power sector as much as we can, as fast as we can, to have any chance at staving off the worst of climate impacts. And here, the Court has struck a devastating blow.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Because beyond the importance of cleaning up the power sector itself, we also need a clean electricity system to enable the decarbonization of so many other aspects of our economy, from vehicles to homes and businesses to industrial processes. The Supreme Court clipped the agency’s wings in its 2022 West Virginia v.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

On October 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.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 31, 2023

An opportunity to directly tackle power plant carbon pollution The power sector remains one of the nation’s largest sources of heat-trapping emissions, with about 60 percent of the electricity generated to keep our lights on coming from fossil fuels. EPA must ensure the final rule equips states to take advantage of this flexibility.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 1599 ) Read more here. -- DEP published notice in the February 15 PA Bulletin inviting comments on an analysis designating an Exceptional Event under the federal Clean Air Act related to Canadian wildfires in June and July 2023 and their impact on air quality in Pennsylvania. Read more here.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 24, 2023

Hatfield’s Ferry Power Station, a Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant, stopped producing electricity in 2013. Clean Air Act. But the facility’s legacy of smog pollution continued long after … Continue reading How the Clean Air Act lets closed coal plants keep polluting for years

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Once Congress passes protective laws like the Clean Air Act, agencies have generally had deference to implement those laws based on the latest scientific evidence of harms caused by pollutants and options to limit those harms. With this decision, the Court has instead hamstrung that authority.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

But hydrogen can be cleanly produced and, with the right guardrails in place, that clean hydrogen can then be used to clean up polluting parts of the economy that can’t readily convert to running on renewable electricity. Otherwise, hydrogen will slow the clean energy transition, not speed it. the “three pillars”).

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The Energy Law

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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Law and Environment

MARCH 10, 2022

EPA has now formally restored its waiver under § 209(b) of the Clean Air Act that allows California’s greenhouse gas emissions standards and Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, notwithstanding the preemption of state vehicle emission standards contained in § 209(a) of the CAA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

Fleets that utilize electric and hydrogen vehicles are eligible to earn Low Carbon Fuel Standard ( LCFS ) credits, which can be sold to offset ZEV costs. Under the federal Clean Air Act, California must obtain a waiver from EPA for certain air quality regulations that go beyond federal standards.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2023

Shapiro Work Out Budget Deal; Senate Democrats, House Democrats Not Onboard [PaEN] -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 24 to 30 - Radiation Levels Prompt Shale Gas Wastewater Tank Decontamination; Replugging Conventional, Shale Gas Wells [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For Cryptocurrency Power Generation (..)

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MGKF Law

JUNE 30, 2022

The major questions doctrine requires that a federal agency have “clear congressional authorization” when acting on issues of great “economic and political significance.” citing Utility Air Regulatory Group v. ” Id. EPA , 573 U.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

As a result, 45V lifecycle assessments must not allow for the offsetting of 1) direct facility emissions and/or upstream methane emissions, or 2) emissions associated with electricity directly powering electrolyzer facilities or induced grid emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Dick Thornburgh [PaEN] -- PUC Launches Review Of Electric Grid Impacts From Data Center Growth, Sets April 24 Hearing [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: CMUs Energy Week Tackles Balancing Sustainability Goals With A.I. -- Utility Dive: PJM Fast-Track Interconnection Process Draws 26.6

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

On May 8, the PJM Interconnection issued a statement on the US Environmental Protection Agency's final rule setting New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and its potential impact on electric grid reliability. The future demand for electricity cannot be met simply through renewables given their intermittent nature.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Shapiro, Republicans Appear Headed For Energy Showdown -- PUC Launches Review Of Electric Grid Impacts From Data Center Growth, Sets April 24 Hearing [PaEN] -- PA Capital-Star: PA Public Utility Commission Sets Hearing On A.I.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

electricity generation in future years, primarily use natural gas to create electricity. The draft white paper is an important step forward in EPA’s efforts to engage communities and the power sector on strategies to improve clean air and reduce climate pollution in the years ahead. “As

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Berkeley’s so-called “natural gas ban” was the first local ordinance in the country to effectively require all-electric construction of new buildings. Local governments have structured or are considering structuring all-electric construction policies in a variety of ways, some of which remain untouched by the Ninth Circuit ruling.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The Clean Power Plan would affect every electricity user in the United States, from the largest manufacturing plant to the smallest home. Arguments in the “core legal issues” brief include: The Clean Air Act does not authorize EPA to make such sweeping changes to how electricity is generated and transmitted in the United States.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

These summaries highlight where EPA is required to, for example, establish new grant or loan programs, implement protections and safeguards under the Clean Air Act such as the Methane Emissions Reduction Program, provide technical assistance, or take other steps to implement the IRA.

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MGKF Law

MARCH 27, 2023

EPA’s Clean Air Act (“CAA”) rulemakings directed at power plants are often the target of regulatory challenges in federal court. Read More » Tags: Air , Clean Air Act , EPA , HAPs , Hazardous Air Pollutants , Rulemaking

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

At the same time, consumers in environmental justice communities should not continue to face disproportionate economic and environmental burdens associated with high local emissions (although not exclusively attributable to electric generation) or the solutions advanced to address those high emissions.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

By: Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 8, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching Clean Air Act rule intended to address the interstate transport of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from upwind to downwind states. See 76 Fed. 48208 (Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2023

Steele, Environmental Health Project -- EPA/DOE To Provide More Than $1 Billion To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Sector -- Erie Times: Erie Coke (Coal) Plant Finally Gets Lawyers In Federal Clean Air Act Criminal Case -- Public News Service: PA Groups Support New EPA Carbon Pollution Standards For Coal, Gas Plants -- Feature: Comparing (..)

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Clean Air Act, the U.S. Energy Policy & Conservation Act and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act. Reference to low emissions automobile technologies, such as hybrid or electric vehicles, may be considered proxies for fuel economy standards.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2023

Steel Edgar Thomson Steel Plant Air Pollution Violations $1.5 Million Penalty, Settlement With Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Over Clean Air Act Violations [PaEN] -- TribLive: Allegheny County Health Dept. Steel Edgar Thomson Steel Plant Consent Decree Explained -- EPA Announces $1.35 Hits Contractors With $1.1

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Circuit hears three cases challenging use of federal regulations to push adoption of electric vehicles and to allow California to forge path toward zero-emission cars. This would be a huge setback, though there are reasons to think that it would only delay rather than prevent the transition to clean cars. This week, the D.C.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The federal Clean Air Act defines an indirect source as any facility, building, structure, or installation, or combination thereof, which generates or attracts mobile source activity that results in emissions of any pollutant (or precursor) for which there is an air quality standard. [6]

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

Climate Disasters Racked Up $165 Billion In Damage In 2022 -- Erie Times: Feds Charge 2nd Erie Coke (Coal) Plant Employee With Violating Federal Clean Air Act At Former Plant Want to have a positive impact on issues like this? For Pipeline Development [PaEN] -- TribLive/Bloomberg: U.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

EPA, as well as state and municipal governments, use the information received from reporting entities to inform the development and implementation of rules and regulations prescribed by the Clean Air Act (CAA). Notably, and unlike the SEC and California rules, EPA’s GHGRP is not directed at investors or consumers.

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