Legal Planet
JUNE 27, 2024
Clean Air Act. Comprehensive Emergency Response and Cleanup Act (CERCLA ). Provides for cleanup of hazardous waste sites. The possibility of CERCLA liability also provides a powerful incentive for voluntary clean-up and for carefully disposing of materials in the first place.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 26, 2021
The case involved the lynchpin of the Clean Air Act, EPA’s power to set national air quality standards. The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANC) v. Army Corps of Engineers.
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PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
For DEP, the Agenda includes a proposed regulation establishing an annual permit fee for shale gas wells [ Read more here ] and updated waste management regulations covering conventional oil and gas operations [ Read more here ]. Lancaster County. ( Westmoreland County.
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.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 1, 2022
Yet EPA isn’t proposing standards consistent with those plans, let alone actually driving the industry beyond what it already promises to do, as required under the Clean Air Act. And there’s no time to waste. This fight by industry to delay, obstruct, and otherwise thwart stronger regulation has devastating consequences.
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. State regulations are also filled with gaps that allow unsafe practices for radioactive oil and gas waste.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 25, 2024
Because the 45V credit has the potential to dramatically accelerate investments in hydrogen production infrastructure, it’s critical that implementation of the credit ensures that “qualified clean hydrogen” is indeed climate-aligned from the outset. This is the starting point from which all of Treasury’s implementation decisions must follow.
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