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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A: A few laws explicitly require cost-benefit analysis or at least something along those lines. Those laws are a minority. There are a few laws that actually prohibit agencies from considering costs, but agencies do cost-benefit analysis when implementing those laws for informational purposes.

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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

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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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

The new laws compiled below add to that already very green environmental regulatory scheme. Savvy players in the environmental industrial complex and associated industries will find business opportunities to lead and profit in environmental matters, including opportunities advantaged by these newly enacted laws. to 100%.

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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

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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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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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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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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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

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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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The 2023 state law directs DEQ to eliminate emissions inspections in 18 counties and request EPA approval of a revised ozone SIP that only requires emissions inspections in Mecklenburg County. The law allows one year for DEQ to submit the revised SIP to EPA for approval; EPA then has 18 months to approve or disapprove the revised SIP.

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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

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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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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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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Vermont Law

JULY 26, 2020

by Alex Spitzer The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) secretly took part in an illegitimate and illegal procedure when providing a national pollution discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit to PolyMet.[1] 1] PolyMet is a foreign company owned by Switzerland’s mining juggernaut Glencore.

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Vermont Law

JULY 26, 2020

by Alex Spitzer The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) secretly took part in an illegitimate and illegal procedure when providing a national pollution discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit to PolyMet.[1] 1] PolyMet is a foreign company owned by Switzerland’s mining juggernaut Glencore.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2022

Settlements like this serve notice to companies that they must follow the law to keep workers and neighbors healthy and safe.” Additionally, the company is tasked with conducting studies on potential improvements to its pollution control systems. The primary pollutant of concern is particulate matter, including PM 2.5.

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2024

By Daniel Cressey, Jiang Mengnan In a white paper, the State Council Information Office has outlined China’s progress in marine law, pollution control, ecological restoration, low-carbon development, and other ocean-related topics.

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MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Bowfin KeyCon Holdings, LLC vs. Pa. Dep’t of Env’t Prot. Env’t Quality Bd. 2023 WL 7171547, at *1 (Pa.

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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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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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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

AUGUST 23, 2022

Steel is no stranger to electrical issues: Less than six months after that catastrophic fire, Clairton Coke Works’ pollution-control systems were again knocked offline thanks to an electrical fire that caused the closure of the same control rooms damaged on Dec. Steel should be charged with 12,000 violations of clean air laws.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 21, 2022

Buried deep, on page 78 of 133 pages of amended and restated oil pollution control and storage regulations are provisions that impose reporting requirements, for the first time, on a prospective purchaser of real estate even if the purchase is never consummated.

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