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. EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

California Clean Energy Committee v. League to Save Lake Tahoe, Mountain Area Preservation Foundation, and Sierra Watch (Sierra Watch) and the California Clean Energy Committee (Committee) filed separate writ petitions alleging numerous CEQA and TPA violations, which the trial court consolidated for hearing.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. plans to invest $240 million to expand the crude slate and improve pollution control at its 502,500 barrel-per-day refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said the state’s governor on Wednesday.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. plans to invest $240 million to expand the crude slate and improve pollution control at its 502,500 barrel-per-day refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said the state’s governor on Wednesday.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Climate Change, and Tree Planting. Additionally, the bill establishes a Commission for the Innovation and Advancement of Carbon Markets and Sustainable Tree Plantings charged with developing a plan to achieve the State’s carbon mitigation goals.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2022

Heffley: Bill To Expand Local C-PACE Clean Energy, Energy Conservation Funding Program Passed By House -- Commonwealth Financing Authority OKs $3.2 Heffley: Bill To Expand Local C-PACE Clean Energy, Energy Conservation Funding Program Passed By House -- Commonwealth Financing Authority OKs $3.2

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A federal bankruptcy court in Missouri enjoined San Mateo and Marin Counties and the City of Imperial Beach (the plaintiffs) from pursuing their climate change lawsuits against Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody). Circuit Stayed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Truck Trailers.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. The court also held that these claims were not ripe.

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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. The point being that hes making unusual demands of staff.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The case involves a group of challenges to EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing stationary sources under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a monumental piece of environmental and public health legislation.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

White House: President Biden met with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology after a meeting of the council, which focused on efforts to improve monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate innovation in energy technology. View the White House readout. ESA Correspondence for Policymakers.

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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. More than 180 local governments nationwide have committed to 100% clean energy, and many more have set ambitious renewable energy goals that fall short of a complete transition.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Bureau of Land Management failed to take a hard look at the indirect and cumulative impacts of greenhouse gases associated with a coal lease that authorized expansion of a coal mine. ruled in 2019 that BLM had failed to adequately assess the potential impacts of greenhouse gas emissions for certain oil and gas leases in Wyoming.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Unleashing American Energy -- Reconsideration of regulations on power plants (Clean Power Plan 2.0) -- Reconsideration of regulations throttling the oil and gas industry (OOOO b/c) [Rule Reducing Methane Emissions] -- Reconsideration of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that improperly targeted coal-fired power plants (MATS) -- Reconsideration of mandatory (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Unleashing American Energy -- Reconsideration of regulations on power plants (Clean Power Plan 2.0) -- Reconsideration of regulations throttling the oil and gas industry (OOOO b/c) [Rule Reducing Methane Emissions] -- Reconsideration of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that improperly targeted coal-fired power plants (MATS) -- Reconsideration of mandatory (..)

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