The Truck Industry’s Decades-long War on Stronger Pollution Controls
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
The EPA is under extreme pressure from industry to propose an absurdly ineffective standard for trucks.
What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
electricity to about one-fifth today. In fact, there was a surge in construction of new coal plants after 1970 due to high electricity demand. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. But this could only have a contributing factor. In 2010, U.S.
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Shell Falcon Pipeline LP Pleads No Contest To Criminal Charges For Violating The State Clean Streams Law In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties; Will Pay $300,000 In Penalties
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
and nitrogen oxides in violation of the federal Clean Air Act, the state Air Pollution Control Act and the plant's permit. 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4% Read more here. A similar lawsuit preceded the May 2023 penalty settlement. Decrease To 31.2%
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Danger Season Underscores Need for Strong EPA Power Plant Carbon Standards
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 31, 2023
An opportunity to directly tackle power plant carbon pollution The power sector remains one of the nation’s largest sources of heat-trapping emissions, with about 60 percent of the electricity generated to keep our lights on coming from fossil fuels. EPA must ensure the final rule equips states to take advantage of this flexibility.
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(Mis)Estimating Regulatory Costs
Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2022
Second, the agency needs information about the costs of facility-by-facility changes, such as shifts in how often facilities are used, their fuel consumption, and how pollution controls were actually operated. quarter of EPA original estimate); an estimate by an industry group (the Edison Electric Institute) was only slightly higher.
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EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Are Critical—and Complex. Here’s What to Know, and What to Watch.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
The ongoing pollution from these power plants is an affront to public health and wildly incompatible with every climate ambition this country —and this world—has. Which means the consequences of these polluters unabashedly continuing to pollute aren’t just severe—they’re compounding.
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The Serious Risks Around Treatment of Biomethane in 45V
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
A substantial portion of the guidance and supporting materials is dedicated to electrolytic production of hydrogen; i.e., using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Treasury adopts a cautious approach in the face of deep uncertainties, declining to set policy positions where the record is ambiguous.
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Group Against Smog & Pollution: Special Report - Public Records Provide New Details Of July Power Outages At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works And What's Being Done To Remedy Electrical Issues
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 23, 2022
Steel’s Clairton Coke Works over the Fourth of July weekend – but also raise new questions about the condition of the facility’s electrical system. July 2 because of “electrical issues.” They are also the same control rooms impacted by the July 4 outage – #1, #2, and #5. Yes, we said outages. As in there was more than one.
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Oct. 19 To Hear Report On Radiation Decontamination Of Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Reactors, Waste Sites
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 8, 2021
The facilities include-- -- Global Tungsten & Powders, Towanda -- Karnish Instruments, Lock Haven -- Keystone Metals Reduction, Cheswick -- Remacor, West Pittsburg -- Safety Light Corporation, Bloomsburg -- Superbolt, Carnegie -- Westinghouse Electric (Waltz Mill), Madison -- Whittaker Corporation, Greenville.
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EPA: Pennsylvania One Of 45 States, MSAs To Submit Priority Climate Action Plans As Part Of $5 Billion Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 12, 2024
DEP said it has the statutory authority in the 1995 law that created the agency, the state Air Pollution Control Act and other laws to establish grant and funding programs to implement the Plan. 1 Price Changes: Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8% Pennsylvania’s Climate Action Priority Plan is available online.
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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
Shapiro, Joins 4 Other Governors To Call On PJM To Reform Its Electric Generating Capacity Auction Rules To Prevent Billions Of Dollars In 'Unnecessary’ Costs To Their Residents, Businesses [PaEN] -- Inquirer: Electric Bills Are Rising In PA, NJ; Governors Want PJM To Help Cut Costs -- PPL Utilities Increases Price Of Electricity Dec.
Sierra Club v. Virginia Electric & Power Co.: How a Clean Water Act Misinterpretation May Open the Floodgates to Future Groundwater Polluters
Vermont Law
MARCH 30, 2020
On September 12, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a judgment that added another untenable wrinkle in the fabric of groundwater pollution regulation. Virginia Electric & Power Co.significantly hindered the rational application of the scope, meaning, and import of the CWA. . Sierra Club v.
2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Now, SB 1137 protects communities by establishing a setback distance of 3,200 feet for homes, schools, parks, or businesses open to the public from new wells, and requires comprehensive pollution controls for existing oil wells within the setback zone.
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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The annual operating cost, including electricity and cleaning the filters, is about $550,000. But the fact that the facility exists, Corrigan said, is an indictment of the state’s pollution-control measures. “It’s Part of this role is operating the machinery that removes nitrate from the town’s drinking water.
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Rare Earth Metal Theft by Catalytic Converter
Greenbuilding Law
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Rare earth metals are not only used in automobile pollution control devices (and not just in the U.S. because the gasoline engine does not run fulltime so the metals in the pollution control device last longer, but also because it is easy to separate from the vehicle. Gold is about $1,900), a 20% increase since January.
EPA Releases White Paper For Comment On Reducing Climate Pollution From New Natural Gas-Fired Electric Generation
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 21, 2022
Environmental Protection Agency issued for public input a draft white paper on control techniques and measures that could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new stationary combustion turbines. electricity generation in future years, primarily use natural gas to create electricity.
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Evangelical Environmental Network: FERC Approval Of PJM Fast Track Power Plant Plan Favors Natural Gas, Leaves Clean, Abundant Energy Behind For Pennsylvania
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
to 11% UGI Gas Rate Hike Request -- Utility Dive: New Jersey Residential Customers Face 20% Electric Bill Hikes, Driven By PJM Capacity Prices: NJ Board Of Public Utilities -- US EIA Natural Gas Price Forecast For 2025 Now 21% Higher Than Last Forecast At $3.80; 2026 Forecast Now $4.20
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Guest Essay: DEP Should Invest $33.6 Million In New Federal Funding Wisely To Plug Conventional Oil & Gas Wells And Not Reward The Industry For Bad Behavior
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Require Use Of Latest Technology Most importantly, DEP should restrict this funding to gas companies that use the most up-to-date pollution control technologies at their functioning gas wells and compressor stations, such as those that will be required in EPA’s forthcoming rules.
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Colorado Law Will Lead the Nation in Reducing GHGs from Buildings
Greenbuilding Law
AUGUST 20, 2023
As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. Buildings are one of Colorado’s top five sources of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s a major step forward in protecting both public health and clean air.”
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State Air Regulations Can Go Above and Beyond National Standards
Legal Planet
AUGUST 22, 2023
That theme continues throughout, from the Prevention of Significant Deterioration program , which helps protect attainment areas from pollution caused by new sources, to ongoing monitoring requirements for attainment areas. The Supreme Court in Union Electric Company v. All states must submit SIPs, regardless of attainment status.
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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule: Interrogating Preemption and Coherence with Other Domestic Regimes
Law Columbia
MARCH 29, 2024
The SEC’s regime is an investor protection program, and nowhere in the SEC’s rule does a stated goal of pollution control or GHG emission reduction appear. California has a history as a “first mover” on environmental issues, in part due to the state’s pressing need for pollution controls.
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120 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
Martin Interim President Of PPL Electric Utilities -- National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Awards $14.9 Million In Grants To Schools, Businesses, Local Governments To Switch To Zero- Or Low-Emission Vehicles; Next Round Of Applications Due Dec. 15 [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Loyalsock Twp. 15 [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Loyalsock Twp.
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Emerging Local Legal Pathways for Building Electrification: Air Pollution and Land Use Regulation in New York City & Brookline, Massachusetts
Law Columbia
MAY 28, 2021
Buildings need not be built all-electric to comply with the code standard – appliances and building systems using any fuels are acceptable – but it will be far easier for them to comply if they do. that are built all-electric) will receive special permits that endure in perpetuity.
Clean Power Plan: The Legal Battle Continues
The Energy Law
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
The Clean Power Plan would affect every electricity user in the United States, from the largest manufacturing plant to the smallest home. EPA cannot require electricity generation to be shifted from coal-burning units to units that use natural gas or renewable energy sources without a clear statement from Congress.
EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Will Have A Dramatic Impact on Texas and Louisiana
The Energy Law
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Making these cuts by the highly compressed deadline could jeopardize the ability of the Texas and Louisiana electric grids to supply sufficient power to businesses and consumers. The reductions could even lead to rolling blackouts. See Luminant News Release, Luminant Announces Facility Closures, Job Reductions in Response to EPA Rule (Sept.
Minnesota drives forward with EV rules
Renewable + Law
DECEMBER 22, 2020
On December 21, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) set forth its plans to amend the state’s clean air rules to adopt Low-Emission Vehicles (LEV) and Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEV) standards, known as the Clean Cars Minnesota rule. If approved, the rule would apply to new passenger cars and light trucks beginning in 2024.
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No Decision Posted Yet From DEP On Whether Flare Gas Chemical Makeup, Volume At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Is Confidential Business Information
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 5, 2024
The Department of Environmental Protection has not yet decided whether to approve an April 12, 2024 request from the Shell Petrochemical Plant to classify the composition and flow rate of gases going to be burned off at flares and the air pollution sources and pollution control equipment operating at the Beaver County facility confidential business (..)
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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
Million In Grants To Schools, Businesses, Local Governments To Switch To Zero- Or Low-Emission Vehicles; Next Round Of Applications Due Dec. 15 [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Loyalsock Twp.
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The Essential - PA Environment Digest 7.5.21
PA Environment Daily
JULY 5, 2021
Here’s A Guide To Identifying Them And Avoiding Bites Climate Rachel McDevitt: Will RGGI Affect Your Electric Bill? Million For PFAS Cancer Study WHYY: What’s In The Water?
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The Good Neighbor Provision on Steroids: Third Circuit Ruling Resurrects Clean Air Act Section 126(b)
The Energy Law
JULY 23, 2013
In the recent ruling, the Third Circuit held that it was reasonable for EPA to interpret Section 126(b) to be an “independent mechanism for enforcing interstate pollution control,” thereby giving EPA authority to directly regulate a specific source in an upwind state. See GenOn REMA, LLC v. 12-1022, slip op. at 29 (3d Cir.
Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule
Acoel
JUNE 29, 2022
EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990. Posted on June 29, 2022 by Eugene M. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. Eugene M.
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Cyber(in)security: An Environmental Calamity Lying in Wait?
Vermont Law
APRIL 4, 2016
Instead of a small dam, next time a hack could occur within a portion of our critical infrastructure, such as the electric grid. . electrical grid were successful in the summer then scores could die from the heat, similar to what occurred in Chicago during a brief but particularly brutish hot spell in 1995.
Michigan’s Updated PURPA Implementation Could Create a New Market for Privately-owned Solar Energy Facilities
Columbia Climate Law
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
PURPA requires electric utilities to purchase energy and capacity from qualifying renewable energy facilities (“QFs”). Jeffrey Hammons is an Associate Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center in Chicago, IL, where his litigation practice covers issues of pollution control and energy law. Background on PURPA.
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Second District Affirms Judgment Rejecting CEQA And Other Challenges To CARB’s “Technology-Forcing” Emissions-Control Regulation For At-Berth Tanker And Other Ships
CEQA Developments
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
The Regulation targets emissions from auxiliary engines (which supply electricity for non-propulsive functions while a ship is berthed) and boilers (which power steam-driven pumps to offload crude oil from large tankers). Resources Code, 21080.5(c); Citing to the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006; and to Pub.
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Ask a Scientist: UCS Transportation Program Adds Equitable Mobility to its Portfolio
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. Soon thereafter, it began extolling the virtues of battery electric vehicles , which it continues to do today.
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Cars, Smog, and EPA
Legal Planet
AUGUST 24, 2023
This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards. Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. The history of these pollution standards is quite distinctive. Congress adjusted the standards twice.
Oil Refineries: A Deadly Industry
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The refining industry is the largest emitter of pollution during malfunctions compared to other industries. The average age of a US refinery is over 40 years, with some dating to the end of the 19 th century, and they mostly have inadequate pollution control systems.
FRESH, October 4, 2022: Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Emerges as Political Flashpoint
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Wisconsin faces difficulty enforcing pollution control from small farms. A plan to build out electric vehicle chargers draws pushback from gas station owners in Minnesota. October 18, 2022: EPA’s Debra Shore at the Great Lakes Conference — register. October 28, 2022: Great Lakes Water Conference — register. Other News.
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Cities & the Inflation Reduction Act
Law Columbia
AUGUST 22, 2022
The bill is sprawling, covering climate and energy topics as diverse as electric vehicles, building decarbonization, clean energy manufacturing and supply chains, agriculture, and greening the electricity system, all through a range of tax incentives and direct grants. Still, how does a local government tap in?
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The Inflation Reduction Act: Investments in Environmental Justice
Law and Environment
AUGUST 17, 2022
The Administrator is also authorized to make grants to air pollution control agencies, public or nonprofit private agencies, institutions and individuals for the purpose of conducting research on the causes and prevention of air pollution in these communities.
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Environmental Perspectives
Environmental Science
JULY 30, 2018
Congress toyed with water pollution control since 1948, but 2 years after Earth Day it passed the first comprehensive federal law, ever, to control water pollution, the 1972 Clean Water Act. Through this law, water pollution is managed by controlling wastewater discharges. Sponsored Content.
Green Ports: Transforming the Maritime Industry
Ocean Conservancy
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Electric-powered cranes can reduce port-related carbon emissions by approximately 30%. By improving waste management, green ports can recycle up to 60% of port-generated waste, helping to reduce marine pollution. They are helping to shift the shipping industry towards sustainability and environmental responsibility.
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Other 2023 N.C. Environmental Legislation
Smith Enviorment
DECEMBER 19, 2023
12.5, prohibits any state agency from requiring electric utilities to participate in a cap and trade program for CO2 emissions. electric utilities to participate in a multi-state cap and trade program (the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative) to reduce CO2 emissions. Prohibit cap and trade programs for CO2 emissions.
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Burning Garbage Will Not Solve the Plastic Pollution Crisis
Enviromental Defense
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Pollution control is expensive and air pollution regulations are not strict enough. A recent study shows that waste incineration causes the most greenhouse gas emissions for each unit of electricity when compared to generation from other fossil fuels.
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