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Environmental Groups File Notice Of Intent To Sue The Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations: Similar Action In 2023 Resulted In $10 Million Settlement

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

and nitrogen oxides in violation of the federal Clean Air Act, the state Air Pollution Control Act and the plant's permit. "As

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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. On October 2024, the Clean Air Council and the Environment Integrity Project filed a notice of intent to sue the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for emitting particulate matter (PM 2.5)

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EPA Announces $1.35 Million Penalty, Settlement With Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Over Clean Air Act Violations

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

The locomotives at issue in this settlement burn diesel fuel which produces significant emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and fine particulate matter. The settlement is expected to reduce tons of nitrogen oxide and particulate matter pollution and improve air quality where their trains operate.”

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Groups Urge DEP To Temporarily Halt Operations At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; File 2nd Notice Of Intent To Sue For Air Pollution Violations

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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EPA Imposes $2.5 Million Penalty On PA Company For Selling Auto Parts That Avoid Vehicle Pollution Controls

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The company’s actions allegedly violated the Clean Air Act’s prohibition on the sale of so-called “defeat devices,” which are designed to “bypass, defeat or render inoperative” a motor vehicle engine’s air pollution control equipment or systems. The Keystone settlement, at $2.5

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EPA: Power Plant, Pipeline, Cement, Paper, Glass And Other Industries In PA, Other States Face Tighter NOx Standards Under EPA’s Final Good Neighbor Rule

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency announced the final Good Neighbor Plan , a rule that will significantly cut smog-forming nitrogen oxide pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities in 23 states. On March 15, the U.S.

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State Air Regulations Can Go Above and Beyond National Standards

Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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DEP Signs Consent Order Including $10 Million In Penalties, Local Payments With Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County To Resolve Air Quality Violations; Plant To Restart May 24

PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2023

Shell exceeded its rolling 12-month total emission limitations for volatile organic compounds (VOC) beginning in October 2022 through April 2023, carbon monoxide (CO) from February through March 2023, Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) from December 2022 through April 2023, and Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAP) from December 2022 through April 2023.

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DEP Issues Notice Of Violation To Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Quality Violations In Sept. - Oct.

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This exceedance is a violation of Shell’s plan approvals ( PA-04-00740A , PA-04-00740B , and PA-04-00740C ) and the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act and regulations. DEP is authorized under the Air Pollution Control Act to order compliance where appropriate.

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EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Will Have A Dramatic Impact on Texas and Louisiana

The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

By: Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 8, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching Clean Air Act rule intended to address the interstate transport of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from upwind to downwind states. See 76 Fed. 48208 (Aug.

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Oil Refineries: A Deadly Industry

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Many pollutants cause cancer, pulmonary and heart diseases, neurological, reproductive, developmental, and immunological damage, and more. Examples are benzene, hydrofluoric acid, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and many, many other toxic pollutants. Refining uses many risky industrial processes.

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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. Cars and trucks are a lot cleaner than when I was growing up.

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The evolution of US NOx standards for cars

Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 27, 2023

Dan Farber at Legal Planet recently posted on "Cars, Smog, and EPA" An excerpt: For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx [nitrogen oxides] standards for new cars itself. That’s quite different from the standards for industrial pollution sources, which Congress has always delegated to EPA.

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Biden’s Proposed Power Plant Rule is a Solid First Step

Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

As my colleagues and I have explained , generation shifting is an ordinary consequence of pollution-control rules and is the easiest, cheapest, and best way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel-powered plants.

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Oil & Gas Facilities Self-Reported 13,432,713 Tons Of Air Pollution In PA In 2022; 101,741,616 Tons Total Since 2012

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

tons - 1,3 Butadiene [EPA Hazardous Air Pollutant] -- 55.68 tons - 2,2,3 - Trimethylpentane [EPA Hazardous Air Pollutant] -- 71 tons - Acetaldehyde [EPA Hazardous Air Pollutant] -- 49.93 tons - Acrolein [EPA Hazardous Air Pollutant] -- 5.71 tons - Benzene [EPA Hazardous Air Pollutant] -- 1.81 tons - Ammonia -- 45.89

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Just a year later, however, the industry encountered a potentially major obstacle: A study conducted by the government’s National Air Pollution Control Administration found a link between outdoor NO2 exposure and childhood respiratory problems.

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Ask a Scientist: Top Takeaways from the New EPA Carbon Pollution Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

As a result, these new standards only consider facility-specific pollution controls, such as installing carbon capture equipment or burning lower-carbon fuels with higher-carbon fuels, like hydrogen with fossil gas. billion to $5.9 billion.

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Environmental Groups File Notice Of Intent To Sue The Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations: Similar Action In 2023 Resulted In $10 Million Settlement

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

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EPA Announces $1.35 Million Penalty, Settlement With Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Over Clean Air Act Violations

Groups Urge DEP To Temporarily Halt Operations At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; File 2nd Notice Of Intent To Sue For Air Pollution Violations

EPA Imposes $2.5 Million Penalty On PA Company For Selling Auto Parts That Avoid Vehicle Pollution Controls

EPA: Power Plant, Pipeline, Cement, Paper, Glass And Other Industries In PA, Other States Face Tighter NOx Standards Under EPA’s Final Good Neighbor Rule

State Air Regulations Can Go Above and Beyond National Standards

DEP Signs Consent Order Including $10 Million In Penalties, Local Payments With Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County To Resolve Air Quality Violations; Plant To Restart May 24

DEP Issues Notice Of Violation To Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Quality Violations In Sept. - Oct.

EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Will Have A Dramatic Impact on Texas and Louisiana

Oil Refineries: A Deadly Industry

Ask a Scientist: UCS Transportation Program Adds Equitable Mobility to its Portfolio

The evolution of US NOx standards for cars

Biden’s Proposed Power Plant Rule is a Solid First Step

Oil & Gas Facilities Self-Reported 13,432,713 Tons Of Air Pollution In PA In 2022; 101,741,616 Tons Total Since 2012

The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Ask a Scientist: Top Takeaways from the New EPA Carbon Pollution Rules

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