Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. The earliest mentions of these terms in the law review literature came in the late 1970s, and only one of the pre-1985 discussions took a comprehensive look at the problem. Third, there was so much else going on in environmental law.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 16, 2023

Last week, the EPA Clean Air Science Advisory Committee provided EPA its review of EPA’s Policy Assessment for the Reconsideration of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone. Instead, CASAC recommends a significantly lower ozone NAAQS of 55-60 ppb. first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There are several problems with this false dichotomy: Entrepreneurs behind private startups like Make Sunset are wildly different from the scientists and environmental law experts who study geoengineering. They shouldn’t be grouped together as a side. But no one thinks doing geoengineering is a good idea, do they?

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Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

And New Jerseys pollution calamity isnt limited to rivers; ozone pollution is among the worst in the nation. According to the American Lung Association, all counties in New Jersey except for one fell into metropolitan areas that ranked among the twenty-five worst for ozone pollution. However, theres always a but.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

After the 2014 shutdown Toledo spent $53 million to install an ozone treatment system at the city’s drinking water plant to safeguard customers from algal toxins, said Andrew McClure, the plant’s administrator. It was our way of confronting those laws and those systems. The effects of toxic blooms don’t stop at water treatment plants.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

A long-standing conundrum of international environmental law is that the territorially-based, sectoral legal structures we have created to address environmental issues do not match the interconnected, interdependent nature of ecosystems. But even from early on, they were not the sole locus of international climate law.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

The agency’s air quality modeling indicates that most areas would receive an ozone reduction of less than 0.1 These air quality impacts are minimal compared with the major ozone reductions resulting from the 1998 SIP Call, which resulted in more than 80,000 megawatts of coal capacity being retrofitted with SCRs. ppb by 2025.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

By law, that suit had to be brought in the D.C. About half these states went to court to challenge the disapproval of their own plans and received stays of the disapprovals from regional courts of appeals. The result is that the plan is now in effect in only 11 upwind states. The challengers filed suit to vacate the revised plan entirely.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

The rule includes a sunset date, whereby the WPCO requirement expires after both an EPA finding that all SCAQMD air basins have attained the federal 2015 ozone standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) and a CARB finding that all SCAQMD air basins have attained the state ozone standard of 70 ppb. Further Actions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For example, EPA rules limiting ozone pollution or carbon from power plants move the first lever, while the combined $1.25 billion funding from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are clear examples of the latter.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2025

And they can also change the zoning laws, said Rep. There are many times as a supervisor, I change the zoning so a business couldn't come in, I just changed the law and that was another way. They have every right to say no to a business coming in if they have environmental concerns and they can prove them.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

You can compare this to ozone which has a half-life on the order of minutes, and some PFAS chemicals that have a half-life in air on the order of several years. You can contact your legislator to support this important new law. It is released into the environment as a gas and can break down in air and water. Here’s how.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Environment, Law, and History

MAY 12, 2022

Among other things, it demonstrates that environmental regulation is often driven politically by pressure from businesses that stand to profit from the regulation, a phenomenon we have also seen, for instance, in the history of the Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting substances.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Luminaries In Firefly World [PaEN] -- Penn State: New Updates Come To 'Beescape,' An Online Tool For Supporting Pollinators -- KDKA: Smashing Spotted Lanternfly Myths: Study Finds They May Not Be As Harmful To Vegetation As Once Thought -- TribLive Editorial: Do We Need More Gator Laws?

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As the law takes effect this winter, we all — including you! — A key critique of California's Cap & Trade program has been that it hasn’t reduced health-harming criteria pollutants , including carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, and particulates. What are overburdened communities?

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Law and Environment

MARCH 10, 2023

In short, EPA still gets substantial deference in its technical judgments, and sometimes it’s more important to get those judgments into law than it is to refine them until they are perfect.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

The total civil penalty assessments include $350,000 for air quality violations, which is the maximum civil penalty assessment allowable under the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act, and $764,000 pursuant to Pennsylvania’s oil and gas and solid waste laws. VOCs are a precursor to ozone, which is known to cause adverse health effects.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Contact: Laura Rigge at Irigge@pa.gov or 717-772-5159. 6 [PaEN] -- PA Environmental Council: Cultivating Connections At Rodale Institute On Organic, Restorative Farming Practices -- PA Dept. 23 In Western Region, Including Part Of PA; Aug. 23 In Western Region, Including Part Of PA; Aug.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 8, 2023

That substantive list is substantially the same as the original version of TRACI released by EPA in August 2002.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2022

An objection to that regulation was raised by the Republicans on the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee questioning whether the regulation met the requirements of a 2016 law (Act 52) requiring separate regulations for conventional oil and gas operations. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

For example, EPA has rulemakings just completed, now underway, and soon to be coming on mercury and other hazardous air pollutants, ozone emissions, particulate matter emissions, coal ash, coal wastewater effluent, and more. Despite the concerningly broad implications of the West Virginia v.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Third, the proposal is modeled on, and adopts a few key design elements from the extraordinarily successful provisions of the Montreal Protocol to cut CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals. Invoking the successful Montreal Protocol.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2023

16 In Liberty-Clairton Area, Allegheny County -- Scranton Times Editorial: Ozone Layer Healing Makes Case For Regulation -- TribLive: Natural Gas vs. Electric? Shale Oil & Gas Revolution?

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 27, 2023

On December 7, 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) disapproved the state implementation plan (SIP) revisions for the Baton Rouge ozone nonattainment area that Louisiana set forth in response to EPA’s 2015 SIP Call rule. After noting that LAC 33:III.2201.K

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Vorys Law

MAY 20, 2021

Ohio EPA has proposed rules that will require additional Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) and Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emission controls for certain manufacturing and industrial operations located in the Cincinnati and Cleveland 2015 ozone nonattainment areas. Like VOCs, NOx is a precursor compound which can form ozone.

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Vorys Law

JANUARY 26, 2021

This post focuses on Ohio EPA’s anticipated regulatory changes to address non-attainment of the 2015 Ozone NAAQS. On January 20, 2021, the Ohio EPA’s Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC) hosted a “Program Advisory Group” (PAG) meeting via Microsoft Teams to inform interested stakeholders of recent and upcoming DAPC activities.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Its theoretical contribution lies foremost in the thick narratives of the development of our major international environmental conventions – including reversing the depletion of the ozone layer, regional seas pollution, chemicals and waste, climate change, as well as tackling land degradation, and the loss of biodiversity and forests.

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Environmental Law Reporter

MAY 15, 2015

A settling CAA and Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program defendant that marketed and sold flammable hydrocarbon refrigerants as direct replacements for ozone-depleting substances without notification to EPA must pay a $300,000 civil penalty and must restrict future marketing activities to comply with SNAP regulations.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Emissions reductions will take effect quickly, starting January 1, 2012 for SO2 and annual NOx reductions, and May 1, 2012 for ozone season (May-September) NOx reductions. Texas power plants must meet the January 1, 2012 deadline for SO2 and annual NOx emissions, and the May 1 deadline for ozone season NOx emissions.

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MGKF Law

JULY 23, 2024

In a 5-4 decision, a divided Supreme Court stayed the enforcement of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) Federal Implementation Plan (“FIP”) holding that the emission control measures set to be used in upwind states to improve ozone levels in downwind states was arbitrary and capricious. Ohio et al.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Co Benefits for Human Health : Methane is a key precursor of tropospheric ozone (ground level), a harmful air pollutant. Increased methane emissions are responsible for more than half of the observed increase in tropospheric ozone levels.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

To suggest, however, that a one-size-fits-all approach which assumes the process associated with each of these environmental laws is inadequate, as this bill does, is unnecessary and injects additional delays, confusion and unpredictability into permitting processes while providing little if any tangible environmental benefit,” said Henderson. “The

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Summary: Green-roof zoning laws may provide a solution to the Urban Heat Island Effect, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change through heat pollution originating from large cities. US legislators may follow the lead of Stuttgart, Germany, where exemplary city-greening zoning laws have greatly reduced urban pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

NOx and VOCs mix in the presence of sunlight to form ground level ozone (smog). Exposure to shale gas air pollution and resulting ground level ozone may impair lung function and trigger asthma attacks. -- In a case-control study conducted by Rasmussen et al.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. Air conditioning and refrigeration.

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