PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Pennsylvania, like much of the world, is in the midst of historic social, political, and economic changes that are putting enormous stresses on our environmental resources and laws. energy technology policy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

However, with the oil crisis in the rear-view mirror, then-President Ronald Reagan acceded to requests from Ford and General Motors to reduce fuel economy standards for a few years, and the political will to strengthen the program petered out.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

There may also be requirements on what technologies must be used for mitigation such as the use of catalytic converters in cars that used older lead fuel (6). The Clean Air Act is an excellent example of this following the publication of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. Learn more about environmental law degrees.

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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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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. Manufacturers are stepping up to meet fleet operators’ growing interest in highly efficient electric technologies.

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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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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

The turmoil that followed was political but also showed the lack of resources in societies led to their collapse. That would take researchers after the war years to examine, using new techniques and technologies, to finally record and analyze data produced during the modern industrial era. The 1960s and 1970s.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

The reason may have been the high political stakes in the car industry or the relatively easier task of setting standards for new products in a single industry using a single energy process. The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 grams per mile (gpm) for NOx.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. But for many of these use-cases, hydrogen doesn’t do the job particularly well, at least as compared to existing technology.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

To a certain extent, this is because of political and procedural constraints: The IIJA relied on center-right supporters, such as the U.S. Similarly, as our panelist Dustin Maghamfar has written , the IRA amends the Clean Air Act in ways that will have a qualitative impact.

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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. and Sierra Club v.

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 27, 2023

The reason may have been the high political stakes in the car industry or the relatively easier task of setting standards for new products in a single industry using a single energy process. The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

refinery to settle federal charges that it violated the Clean Air Act, the US Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency said May 1. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Horizontal drilling with high intensity hydraulic fracturing was a new technology and a new method for [natural] gas extraction in many ways, but at the same time, it wasn't altogether new. Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. Note: Dr.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

SO2, and NOx – harmful air pollutants that are known to endanger public health. 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. Yet because of the politics of climate change, the rule will almost certainly be subject to a similar challenge.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2024

Recommendations to improve new scientific integrity policies A process President Biden launched during his first week in office aims to ensure all agencies adopt scientific integrity policies that prohibit improper political interference in scientific research and prevent the suppression or distortion of scientific information.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2024

Recommendations to improve new scientific integrity policies A process President Biden launched during his first week in office aims to ensure all agencies adopt scientific integrity policies that prohibit improper political interference in scientific research and prevent the suppression or distortion of scientific information.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The Gruenspecht effect refers to an economist who in his Yale PHD thesis argued that the Clean Air Act can unintentionally make air pollution worse in the short run if car drivers keep their old cars longer because regulation raises the price of new cars (a regulation induced substitution effect).

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Brag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Howe how she would transition from the political sphere into governmental management, given President Biden’s initiative to bolster EPA staff. Rounding out his list of priorities, Mr. Uhlmann stated that there is no room for politics in enforcement, rather it is about the law and the facts. From Tim Kaine, Ms. Commentary.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

innovation and manufacturing of critical new technologies, all while delivering significant economic benefits through increased recovery of wasted gas. The updates would provide more comprehensive requirements to reduce climate and health-harming air pollution, including from hundreds of thousands of existing oil and gas sources nationwide.

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Legal Planet

MAY 2, 2025

Almost every major industrial and power facility in California needs an air permit when its built or renovated. But our tools are rusty: Unfortunately, the core of the laws governing permit review is decades out of date so much so that air permitters generally dont even consider these more recently-developed technologies.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

In rejecting EPA’s plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, the Court stated that “agency decisions of vast economic and political significance” (i.e., economic impacts, political significance), and when they identify a violation of the doctrine.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

EPA held the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan Rule exceeded EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act authorizes EPA to address air pollution from both new and existing sources if the pollutant endangers public health or welfare.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

Freedom to pollute Most of the bill is devoted to ensuring that consumers pay as much of their hard-earned money to the oil industry as possible by preventing the agencies charged with reducing emissions and fuel use from considering the best technology available, electrification.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Joe Manchin about holding up EPA nominations claiming “overreach” ) But this is not just about the political calculus of a president trying to make good on a climate pledge. So, EPA and the states have a shared responsibility to regulate “existing sources” — primarily power plants— under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

Second, the industry doesn’t invoke the major question doctrine, making it clear that it does not view such technology mandates as out of bounds for EPA in the future. Technological Viability. It argues that these technologies have great potential. Third, most of its comments are focused on timing issues.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 10, 2025

The DOE could decide to shut down its Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, which helps launch emerging clean technologies, as early as next week, sources familiar with the matter have told Latitude Media. District Court for the District of Columbia.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2024

And they will raise other arguments — primarily, that the technologies that EPA is relying on to reduce emissions aren’t ready for prime time. Under the Clean Air Act, nationwide EPA air pollution rules can only be challenged in the D.C.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With many federal judges sympathetic to the MQD’s anti-regulatory bent, and the Supreme Court majority that created this doctrine predicted to last for years, a legislative response from Congress may be a practical solution – if the politics can handle it. Env’t Prot.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. Click Here to join the meeting via Microsoft Teams. DEP Contact: Lindsay Byron at lbyron@pa.gov or calling 717-772-8951. Read more here. April 24-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

EN: These standards—or at least something based on the same Clean Air Act provision—have been in the works for a long time. Meanwhile, in 2021, the case against the Clean Power Plan re-emerged , resulting in the West Virginia v. EPA Supreme Court decision in 2022. There are two key takeaways from West Virginia v.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

I learned this secret firsthand in the three years I just spent at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), first as Chief Counsel, then as Acting Administrator. The goal is to replace the most senior and influential senior federal staff with short term political loyalists. They are not partisan hacks.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

billion to the National Science Foundation to start a Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP). The directorate is tasked with accelerating use-inspired and translational research in technologies and innovations of national importance. Innovation and Competition Act ( S. Innovation and Competition Act ( S.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

The bill was introduced in the House on August 6 and referred to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology and on Transportation and Infrastructure ( H.R. On July 21, 2021, the House of Representatives passed the PFAS Action Act of 2021 by a 241-183 vote. Comprehensive PFAS Bill Passed House. The House bill ( H.R.

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

Nominations: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a confirmation hearing this Wednesday for Arati Prabhakar, President Biden’s nominee for Office of Science and Technology Policy Director. If confirmed, Prabhakar would be the first woman and first person of color to be permanent OSTP director. . EPA decision.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

The appellate court agreed with the court below that the lawsuit raised nonjusticiable political questions. Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Reynolds v. State , No. 1D20-2036 (Fla.

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