PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Neuman said it is undisputed that in 2013 the Mariner East pipeline was an interstate pipeline that provided no service in Pennsylvania and was regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Authority as common carriers under federal law with no eminent domain authority. Read more here.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 8, 2022

Ameren Missouri submitted to the Court a proposal to shut Rush Island early rather than install expensive pollution control equipment. . The post DOJ Gets Off Its Moral High Horse: Ameren Missouri Will Close Early first appeared on Law and the Environment. None of this was really news.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water contaminants before they foul drinking supplies. It’s frustrating,” he said.

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Nanotech

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) held two public webinars in July 2024 to provide updates and answer questions on Minnesota’s per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in products law (Amara’s Law), which takes effect in stages between 2025 and 2032.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 13, 2022

According to Inside EPA (subscription required), the Department of Justice (and the Sierra Club) have opposed Ameren’s Missouri’s motion to allow it to close its Rush Island generating facility early, rather than install otherwise required pollution control equipment. Like Tevye in A Fiddler on the Roof, I’ll tell you. . I don’t know.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 22, 2022

The Boston Air Pollution Control Commission has formally adopted its “Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance Phase 1 Regulations.” The Phase 1 regulations are really all about the “disclosure” side of BERDO.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The Air Pollution Control Commission will later hold a “formal” public comment period at a time TBD. The post BERDO Implementation Picks Up Speed — Better Get Ready first appeared on Law and the Environment. The “informal” public comment period on the draft regulations will remain open until January 14.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Air Pollution Control Commission has authority to suspend some or all of the requirements of BERDO 2.0 The post Boston Regulates Building GHG Emissions: The Next Few Years Will Be Very Interesting first appeared on Law and the Environment. Use of Renewable Energy Certificates as a compliance mechanism.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Specifically, while the Court did not ultimately rule out all possible interventions beyond direct pollution controls at individual sources, it did make clear that direct pollution controls were the clearest course, meaning that moving forward, EPA is likely to devise BSER based on things that can be applied “at or to” a polluting facility.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

This historic announcement shows that we will not sit by while illegal air pollution rains down on nearby communities and the Pennsylvanians who live in them." The settlement also includes approximately $37 million worth of pollution control and plant reliability upgrades to prevent future breakdowns of essential pollution control systems.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 19, 2023

BP agreed to pay a $40 million penalty and spend almost $200 million on environmental controls to settle government allegations that the company released excessive toxic chemicals at its Whiting, Indiana, oil refinery on Lake Michigan.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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Nanotech

JUNE 24, 2024

According to the RFC, the main purpose of The post Registration Opens for July Webinars on Minnesota’s PFAS in Products Law; MPCA Publishes Summary of Comments on CUUs appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

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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.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. Massachusetts made plain that emissions of carbon dioxide qualify as air pollution subject to regulation under the Act.

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Vorys Law

JANUARY 26, 2021

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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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. While several cities and local jurisdictions have similar enactments, Maryland has the only other statewide GHG emission reduction law.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. or if the public agency failed to give the notice required by law.” Existing Facilities Exemption Did Not Apply As A Matter of Law. Factual/Procedural Background. Applying the holding of Tomlinson v.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Read the full story in the National Law Review. The state of Minnesota is seeking comment on rulemaking to implement one of the country’s two broadest per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in product laws.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

On February 28, ECOS also issued this statement on the reported 65% cut to the US Environmental Protection Agencys budget-- States carry out more than 90% of the nations federal environmental laws in communities around the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. -- DEP published notice in the February 8 PA Bulletin it has scheduled a March 11 hearing on a proposed Air Quality Plan Approval permit covering new air pollution control equipment to be installed at the Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County. (

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Preemption of a state law arises under the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution. See, e.g. , Rice v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

If you live in Minnesota, you can help make sure the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) writes a comment letter supporting adequate protection in the EPA’s upcoming update to its rules covering emissions of ethylene oxide at commercial sterilizer facilities. You can contact your legislator to support this important new law.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The Clean Air Council and the Environmental Integrity Project asked DEP to temporarily halt operations of the Shell Polymers Monaca plant in Beaver County until the company can demonstrate it can operate in compliance with pollution control laws.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2022

In challenging the air quality permit extension last August, the environmental groups objected on the grounds that BCREP had not commenced construction at the Wyalusing facility as required by law, making DEP’s extension unjustified. O’Neill, PennFuture Senior Attorney.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 12, 2022

The agency’s External Civil Rights Compliance Office will investigate both the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality’s handling of its air pollution control program and whether the Louisiana … Continue reading EPA launches civil rights inquiry into Louisiana agencies.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Responsible for implementing the authorities of the PA Conservation District Law of May 15,1945, Paul credits the vision and foresight of the individuals responsible for the enactment of this statue and with enabling and guiding him throughout his soil and water conservation career. In 1969 Ralph W.

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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. PA Utility Law Project Webinar On Impacts Of LNG Gas Exports On Energy Costs For Pennsylvania Families. Noon to 1:00 p.m.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Another 50th anniversary: Legal Planet reports that the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at U.C. Davis School of Law will convene a conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act on Friday, October 7th. Davis School of Law. The free, in-person conference will be held at the U.C.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims. More recently, states and municipalities have asserted claims under consumer protection laws.). which affirmed the dismissal of state-law public nuisance, private nuisance, and trespass claims. Chevron Corp.

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Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 18, 2022

An excerpt: The CWA as enacted a half-century ago was enormously ambitious and, with the benefit of hindsight, quite naive: in the law’s legislative findings, Congress declared that “it is the national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985.” That obviously did not, and will not, happen.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2022

The Ohio EPA spars with federal agencies over pollution control in Lake Erie. New laws make it easier for communities to access state financing for water infrastructure — Michigan Radio. A Michigan agency announces a new program to monitor mercury contamination. Fresh from the Great Lakes News Collaborative.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Minnesota Pollution Control Authority, or MPCA, has announced that the Circular Action Alliance (CAA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, producer-led organization, has been selected as Minnesotas initial PRO, or producer responsibility organization. Read the full story at Recycling Today.

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Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

Deforestation, air and water pollution, and lack of sanitation systems have led to public health problems and resource scarcity. However, by internalizing the role of environmental law and grassroots efforts, there is a hope of success for Haiti’s continued reconstruction and long-term development. _. By Marie Hollister.

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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.

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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. Thus, the CAA sets a floor for regulation of air pollution, not a ceiling.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

On September 14, the Clean Air Council appealed an effort by Pennsylvania to resurrect a defunct air pollution control permit that would allow construction of a large gas-fired power plant proposed for Robinson Township.

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