Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 1, 2022

While the agency proposes to give credit to such trucks, acknowledging “the zero-tailpipe emissions performance of these technologies,” they have not set any targets based on this performance. Manufacturers like Freightliner have been actively touting their big plans for electric trucks at events like this year’s Advanced Clean Truck Expo.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Workers in facilities that produce and use EtO as well as people living near facilities that release it into the atmosphere are at risk of unsafe exposures even when the facilities are using the best available technologies to handle and contain it. Have I been exposed to ethylene oxide?

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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. We know the truck industry has a number of technological solutions to reduce its emissions, but we need regulators to take action to make it happen.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Under the Clean Air Act, California has the unique ability to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from new vehicles, including greenhouse gases. The possibility of snagging some of this funding may also help nudge some lagging states to think seriously about cutting carbon emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

The IRA gave us effective tools for cleaning up the power sector through dedicated support for the rapid and widescale deployment of renewable resources and the technologies that support them. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Most prominently, because the approach is changing from rewarding specific technologies to rewarding anything that meets the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions threshold of “clean”—hence the “tech-neutral” label—exactly how the government goes about determining whether or not something is actually eligible will be enormously important.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Retiring Rush Island early will have a much more beneficial environmental impact, on a far shorter timeframe, than installing wet flue gas desulfurization (“FGD”) technology and continuing operations. As Ameren noted in its filing with the Court: . Ameren made clear that turning of the switch “is not a simple matter.”

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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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Law and Environment

AUGUST 18, 2023

In rejecting Montana’s SIP, EPA repeatedly pointed to Montana’s failure to comply with EPA’s guidelines for determining Best Available Retrofit Technology, even though the guidelines were not enforceable regulations. Congress required in the Clean Air Act that EPA develop guidelines for determining BART.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

This decision wrongfully precludes the agency’s authority to set robust power plant carbon pollution standards in line with today’s technologies and practices adopted on a sector-wide basis. With this decision, the Court has instead hamstrung that authority.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s not hard to see why CARB has taken this approach: dairy digesters are a technological intervention that require little change to the operation of industrial dairies. In the United States, we already have a model for regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act. To CARB, installing digesters is a win-win.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way). DR: Adding EVs to the grid is unlike other typical demands, such as air conditioning or refrigerators, which have to run at certain times during the day or continuously.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This rule was a clear opportunity to exercise the Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act to promote the most advanced emissions reductions technology. The Clean Air Act is pretty clear on the question at hand, and the data is as clear as can be—California must get its waiver ASAP.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2022

The EPA is proposing a new Clean Air Act rule to sharply reduce methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry – including, for the first time, reductions from existing sources nationwide. Environmental Protection Agency, and Max Goff , certification manager for Project Canary , will give separate presentations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1966, vehicles were responsible for nearly 60 percent of the 146 million tons of pollutants discharged into the air across the United States.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Offsets would be entirely discordant with the intention of 45V, which is specifically designed to incentivize technology and process innovations to enable truly clean hydrogen production. This is the starting point from which all of Treasury’s implementation decisions must follow.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 13, 2024

Background Since the middle of the last century, the United States has witnessed significant changes in air quality, driven by industrialization, technological advancements, regulatory measures, and public awareness. … Continue reading Atrocious Air

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. In 2011, in AEP v. at 427–428.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

The Carl Moyer Grant Program also provides incentive funds (around $60 million/year) to private companies and public agencies to purchase cleaner-than-required engines, equipment, and emission-reduction technologies for heavy-duty equipment.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2023

On May 4, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it will receive public comments and host a May 17 in-person public hearing regarding a plan approval application for Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT III) requirements for Covanta Delaware Valley, LP, a waste to energy facility in the City of Chester, Delaware County.

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Capaccio

MAY 25, 2021

Dan will initially be working alongside our Air Permitting experts as he brings extensive Clean Air Act testing experience and will add depth to our team. Our unique approach combines our extensive EHS experience with cutting edge innovative technologies.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Project Canary is a climate technology company, and we effectively build enterprise-wide emission data platforms, so that operators in the energy space can understand what's going on. Virginia and Tennessee have already done this, and they've done this through the creation of an innovative gas technology approach. ‘So

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E2 Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule on March 1, 2024, updating the Accidental Release Prevention Requirements and Risk Management Program under Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act (RMP). 40 CFR Part 68.

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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

JULY 27, 2021

And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM. By Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council This article first appeared on the NRDC Blog July 21, 2021 -- The U.S.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

This level of forced retirements is far in excess of any prior EPA projections of plant shutdowns resulting from implementation of a Clean Air Act rulemaking. 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

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

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. The Clean Power Plan usurps authority given to States by the U.S. Constitution and the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

The draft white paper presents information on the performance of state-of-the-art combustion turbine technologies and describes additional opportunities for GHG emission cuts. States and the public may also find the white paper useful to inform state-level actions to combat climate change and individual permitting considerations.

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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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Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Nevertheless, and with the possible exception of the Clean Air Act, no law enacted as part of the outpouring of federal environmental legislation in the 1970’s has proven more successful and transformational than the CWA. That obviously did not, and will not, happen.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Moreno: On August 23, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule that significantly expands the applicable air emissions standards for the Oil and Natural Gas Sector. EPA conducted reviews of both standards as required by the Clean Air Act, and is now proposing changes to each.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Both technology and the shift of fuels have contributed to this trend. However, small datasets and new technologies that remove sulfur dioxide from emissions made it difficult to identify in the data the more recent shift from coal- to natural-gas-fired power plants. We wanted to look at how this trend has affected water quality.”

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Vermont Law

JUNE 30, 2014

Summary: Last week the Supreme Court handed down its second Clean Air Act case of the term, Utility Air Regulatory Group v. The case involved a challenge to EPA’s attempt to regulate greenhouse gases in the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program of the Clean Air Act. Christopher D.

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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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Acoel

AUGUST 14, 2023

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Steven Miano I recently had the opportunity to speak at a State University of New York (SUNY) conference for a group of exceptional primary and high school Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) teachers. Efforts to advance alternative energy technologies (wind, solar, etc.),

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