Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Furthermore, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provided a strong and clear affirmation of the appropriateness of Treasury’s proposed approach in light of EPA’s long-standing interpretation and implementation of the referenced lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions definition.

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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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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Shapiro released the consensus recommendations by the Climate and Energy Work Group of organized labor, energy industry, consumer and environmental stakeholders to discuss Pennsylvania’s energy future, including the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

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MGKF Law

JUNE 30, 2022

EPA , the Supreme Court limited the authority of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce greenhouse gases by setting emission guidelines for existing power plants, characterizing the energy generation shifting strategy proposed in the Clean Power Plan (CPP) as an overreach of the agency’s power.

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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

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. EPA, individual states and affected stakeholders as this process continues.” Comitta, Sen.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency issued for public input a draft white paper on control techniques and measures that could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new stationary combustion turbines. electricity generation in future years, primarily use natural gas to create electricity.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP) is a regional blueprint prepared by the SCAQMD for achieving the standards. One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

This post is the third in a series of blogs that address specific legal features of the rule: Part One offered a summary of the final rule, and delved into the materiality threshold that was added throughout the rule, including for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosure.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

cities are seeking to limit the flow of vehicular traffic in designated areas as a means to reduce greenhouse gas and other emissions from cars and trucks and to help achieve their municipal climate goals. Clean Air Act, the U.S. Energy Policy & Conservation Act and the U.S. An increasing number of U.S.

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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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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. By 2030, plastic production will contribute 1.3

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Energy Information Administration (EIA) and stream sulfate concentrations taken by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Clean Water. They used the large datasets to search for evidence that water quality improved with the switch to natural gas.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Murray Energy Corp. McCarthy , No. 5:14 -cv-39 (N.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Differences between setting fuel economy and emissions standards Under the Clean Air Act, EPA is obligated to reduce pollution from mobile sources like passenger cars and trucks when those emissions are a risk to public health and/or welfare. Additionally, there are incentives for natural gas vehicles and electric vehicles.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Much of the discussion of climatology in public discourse concerns anthropogenic climate change - the contribution of human activity to such events as carbon particles, greenhouse gases, and their effects such as the Greenhouse Effect and coral bleaching. As atmospheric particles increase, so does air density. Greenhouse Gases.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

On August 16, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (or “IRA”), widely hailed as the most ambitious piece of climate legislation in U.S. cities move toward their greenhouse gas reduction goals via a cleaner national electric grid, increased vehicle and building electrification, and new distributed renewable energy resources.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

EPA last year, the new draft rule does not determine emission limits based on “generation shifting,” or the closure of fossil fuel-powered plants in favor of cleaner sources of electricity. Still, the fact that this draft rule follows the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”) has enabled the EPA to be relatively stringent.

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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. Moreover, even a delay in the implementation of the standards delays cleaning up our air and cutting greenhouse gasses.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This final rule will neither foster the adoption of any additional electric trucks nor will it match the stringency of the most advanced diesel emissions controls already required by state rules. Bad news: electric trucks aren’t included in the rule. Electric trucks aren’t included in the rule. Sadly, it didn’t.

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Legal Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Both the car and power plant regulations involve major portions of the economy, but that is a normal attribute of Clean Air Act regulations. EPA does not claim “virtually unlimited power to rewrite” the Clean Air Act. And both are involve large compliance costs, though again that isn’t unusual.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 27, 2022

EPA , which challenges EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, and Sackett v. After all, no less a group of environmental radicals than the Edison Electric Institute has filed a brief in support of EPA’s authority to regulate GHGs. As everyone knows, the Supreme Court has teed up West Virginia v.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 In April of 2023, the Biden Administration proposed new standards for cars, SUVs, and light trucks that covering both greenhouse gases and conventional pollutants like NOx. grams per mile (gpm) for NOx. EPA proposed a phasedown for NOx to 12mg/m, or 0.012 gpm.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

The proposal requires companies to report information related to “Scope 1” direct carbon emissions (think fuel use and greenhouse gases), “Scope 2” indirect carbon emissions (e.g., purchased energy and electricity), and for some companies to report on information related to “Scope 3” carbon emissions (i.e.,

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The legislature put two provisions in the Appropriations Act of 2023 (House Bill 259) to prevent state agencies from adopting rules intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the state. Other air quality provisions expedite permitting and construction of new or expanded sources of air pollutants.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Critically, and as we’ll discuss in greater depth shortly, hydrogen combustion (as opposed to its use in fuel cells) also leads to greater emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a toxic group of pollutants regulated under the Clean Air Act. All this is not to say there is no place for hydrogen in a clean energy future.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in the near-term. Recently, EPA issued a protective supplemental proposal under the federal Clean Air Act to reduce methane pollution from new and existing sources in the oil and gas sector.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2024

This growing network of warehouses and the freight vehicles that serve them contribute significantly to a community’s greenhouse gas emissions and exposure to harmful pollutants like nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and particulate matter.

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Acoel

JANUARY 31, 2022

EPA , which challenges EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, and Sackett v. After all, no less a group of environmental radicals than the Edison Electric Institute has filed a brief in support of EPA’s authority to regulate GHGs. Posted on January 31, 2022 by Seth Jaffe. Betting money does not favor EPA in either case.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

It was the at the core of the previous challenge to President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which the Supreme Court rejected in West Virginia v. They may also argue that carbon capture and hydrogen have not been “adequately demonstrated” and thus cannot be considered BSERs under the Clean Air Act. Emphasis added.]

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

Texas piled on with its own major questions arguments, claiming that the rule was a major question because it could affect grid reliability because of the additional electricity demand and national security because of the need for imported batteries and materials for electric vehicles. But the resemblance ends there.

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Law and Environment

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As I noted late last month , the Edison Electric Institute filed an amicus in that case in support of EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The big take-away from this decision is its link to West Virginia v. EPA , on the SCOTUS docket for this term.

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