Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

California is allowed to set standards stronger than the federal government under the 1970 Clean Air Act provisions in recognition that CA, and many other states which have adopted CA standards , serve an important role as laboratories of innovation controlling air pollution in novel ways. In the U.S., auto industry.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. Shippensburg University, Chesapeake Bay Foundation Host South Mountain Climate & Land Use Exploration For Educators August 13-- Senate and House Agricultural & Rural Affairs Committees Information Session At Penn State Ag Progress Days.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Related Articles This Week: -- Environmental Quality Board Tables Vote On Accepting Petition For Study To Increase Setbacks From Shale Gas Wells Until Last Minute Comments Can Be Reviewed [PaEN] -- Conventional /Shale Oil & Gas Industry Association Acknowledges 1.4

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

While new emissions reduction and fuel efficiency technologies may increase manufacturing costs (which manufacturers pass on to buyers), they are more than outweighed by fuel savings and other benefits. See 1-4 above.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

UCS has also worked for many years to clean up trucking pollution, and our work now encompasses other parts of the freight system. This makes battery-electric trucks one of the most important technologies we have to clean up the freight system.

Electricity

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

The EO also refers to waivers granted to California under Section 209 of the Clean Air Act for its own Advanced Clean Cars II rule that aims to phase out new gas-powered vehicles by 2035. The EPA and NHTSA rulemakings are completed, as is Californias Section 209 waiver for Advanced Clean Cars II.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Interconnection Again Extends Maximum Generation Alert & Load Management Alert To July 30; Demand Response Programs Implemented On July 28, 29 [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Sept. 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2025

Senate may vote this week to revoke California’s authority under the Clean Air Act to cut pollution from cars and trucks. The Senate vote is on a resolution to use the Congressional Review Act to overturn three separate waivers EPA granted California to cut pollutants from cars and trucks.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2025

Washington County [PaEN] -- Wall Street Journal: Homer City Coal Power Plant Was Just Imploded To Make Way For An A.I.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2025

The Avonlea/Kendra II facility in Springville and the Gradiant/C2G facility in Montrose showcased groundbreaking technologies that recover lithium from fracking brine—reducing environmental waste while strengthening America's energy independence. These facilities represent the future of American energy,” said Congressman Meuser.

Nuclear Power

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Conference of Mayors , and a second on behalf of experts in carbon capture and storage (CCS) science and technology —in support of the U.S. EPA’s 2024 Power Plant Rules EPA is required to regulate power plant emissions under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in West Virginia v.

2024

Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2025

It also said that states would have to make a plant-by-plant determination of what combination of technologies was feasible. That means that Trump will need much more heavily on factual disagreements about the availability of this technology. Those position will be harder to maintain. At oral argument about the Biden rule, D.C.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

This initiative brings together our most advanced technologies to help solve one of the greatest challenges of the AI era evolving our electricity systems to meet this moment, said Amanda Peterson Corio, Head of Data Center Energy for Google. Resource Links: -- WPXI: Microsoft Says Its Slowing Or Pausing Some A.I.

Clean Air Act

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.

Pollution Control

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

That same day, Trump signed a trio of congressional resolutions that improperly seek to vaporize California’s long-standing authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate vehicle pollution to clean our air. That last one got less coverage than it deserves. A first: Earlier this month, a U.S. Kennedy Airport.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

The lawsuit, brought by railroad industry groups, had been held in abeyance since September 30, 2024, awaiting a determination by EPA on which portions of the regulation would require EPA authorization under the Clean Air Act and whether to grant such authorization.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Cross-border capital flows, technology transfer (and respect for intellectual property ownership rights), and migration of skilled labor underpin energy sector investment across the United States as they do in other developed markets and especially in emerging markets.

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

It is one of the reasons we are investing in a diverse portfolio of energy sources, including solar, wind, and advanced nuclear technologies. power grid, including upgrading the physical infrastructure with advanced technologies (e.g., Amazon also supports expanding and modernizing the U.S.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

EPA has proposed a novel reading of the Clean Air Act (CAA) that would foreclose any regulation of CO2 emissions from power plants. Power plants went on the list of industries in 1971, but decades later EPA was still issuing new standards for emissions of conventional air pollutants by new power plants.

Pollution Control

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.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2025

The Clean Air Act gives California the authority to regulate cars and trucks more stringently than the federal government because of our unique air quality challenges. California is not entirely immune to the tomfoolery going on at the federal level.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

An about-face on the Clean Air Act The Clean Air Act provision that EPA uses to regulate power plant carbon — known as Section 111 — asks EPA to first determine whether a source category “causes, or contributes significantly” to harmful air pollution.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2025

Moreover, the Trump administration is resetting , or changing all of the membership of, both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Act Science Advisory Committee. FACs also have workgroups assigned to them to focus on specific topics relevant to the committee.

Government

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2025

It also offers strategic policy recommendations to unclog the queue and get projects online faster. Washington County [PaEN] -- Wall Street Journal: Homer City Coal Power Plant Was Just Imploded To Make Way For An A.I.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. Technologies to treat produced water to a quality for safe discharge and reuse have become more effective and affordable.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

This funding includes repeal of the provisions in the federal Clean Air Act making funding available for Pennsylvanias MERP conventional oil and gas well plugging program. Much of this assistance was aimed at lowering the bar for small producers to put in place waste reduction technologies.

Natural Gas

Circle of Blue

JULY 18, 2025

Almost every one of the country’s foundational environmental laws, enacted since 1970, is under attack: Coal-fired power plants are being allowed to increase emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants, a rewrite of a Clean Air Act provision in place since 1990. Breathable air became the standard in American cities.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

On April 4, the PJM Interconnection sent a letter to the President supporting Presidential exemptions from the federal Clean Air Act requested by 13,900 MW of electric generation in the PJM region. Photos: Keystone and Conemaugh power plants.) Photos: Keystone and Conemaugh power plants.)

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. Questions should be directed to Todd Wallace at twallace@pa.gov or by telephone at 717-783-6395. Upcoming Meeting December 12-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Click Here for options to join the meeting remotely.

Clean Air Act

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

CFIUS also closely reviews investments in critical technologies. These technologies are created or used by certain U.S. Transactions that may pose a risk to the national security, for example, are investments and acquisitions of critical infrastructure, such as transportation, telecommunication, public health, and energy.

2013

PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2025

President Donald Trump got it right from the start when he issued an executive order in January to strengthen America’s AI – the next great technological forefront. Read what Administrator Zeldin had to say in his exclusive op-ed for Fox News -- “The global race to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) has begun.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Climate change as reason for threatened or endangered status under Endangered Species Act. Investment and incentives for clean technologies under the Inflation Reduction Act. Standing based on climate impacts C. Co-benefits E.

Law

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

On March 24, the US Environmental Protection Agency posted information on how industries regulated under a variety of federal Clean Air Act programs could obtain Presidential Exemptions from those requirements. Click Here for the EPA announcement [ PDF of page ].

Clean Air Act

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.

Clean Air Act

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. First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. And here, the Court has struck a devastating blow.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

and numerous affiliated companies (collectively, GWRSI) for violation of Clean Air Act (CAA) locomotive regulations. The settlement is expected to reduce tons of nitrogen oxide and particulate matter pollution and improve air quality where their trains operate.”

Clean Air Act

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?

Clean Air Act