Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Massachusetts made plain that emissions of carbon dioxide qualify as air pollution subject to regulation under the Act. Once EPA lists a category, the agency must establish standards of performance for emission of pollutants from new or modified sources within that category. at 528–529. 7411(b)(1)(B); see also §7411(a)(2).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Instead, EPA said, the proliferation of “local control measures to reduce pollution from building heating by restricting or limiting the use of natural gas-fired heaters support their general availability as technologically feasible measures.” Download as PDF. SIP Submittal appeared first on Legal Planet.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

On March 24, the US Environmental Protection Agency posted information on how industries regulated under a variety of federal Clean Air Act programs could obtain Presidential Exemptions from those requirements. Please: Use Presidential Exemption: [Name of Regulation]: [Facility(ies) Name] as the subject of the request.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Since these rules and guidelines had widespread effects on all land use and development in the Commonwealth, he knew that effective communications among the regulators and the regulated community were essential. In 1969 Ralph W. Maurice Goddard resonated with him and are still fresh in his mind: Youve got the power, now use it!

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2022

On March 15, the Environmental Quality Board voted 17 to 2 to approve the final regulation reducing VOC/methane emissions from oil and natural gas operations. Representatives of the conventional oil and gas industry voted against the regulation. A representative of the unconventional shale gas industry voted for the regulation.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

DEP should create criteria specifying that it will only allocate this funding to companies that receive minimal violations, for example those that did not result in environmental degradation, and have operated in accordance with state and federal regulations. We should not be spending taxpayer money to assist the oil and gas industry.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

and numerous affiliated companies (collectively, GWRSI) for violation of Clean Air Act (CAA) locomotive regulations. 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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Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 18, 2022

That’s primarily due to two key features of the CWA: first, a nationwide permit system designed to mandate aggressive application of pollution control technology to limit pollution from “point sources” such as factories and power plants. More on the history of the Clean Water Act here and here.

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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. Pennsylvania’s Climate Action Priority Plan is available online. Visit DEP’s Priority Climate Action Plan webpage for more information.

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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. At first blush, groundwater appears distinct from the federally regulated category of navigable waters.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2022

Bogen wrote this introduction to the report-- In 2021, ACHD expanded and implemented new technology and programs and completed some long-term studies that will inform our future. On August 15, the Allegheny County Health Department released an Air Quality Annual Review covering accomplishments in 2021. Dr. Debra L.

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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. However, the regulation is being applauded for providing flexibility for building owners and various pathways for meeting the standards.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The announcement says the agreement provides ALC the opportunity to demonstrate its proprietary DLE technology in the field following a series of successful bench tests at their base in Calgary. We look forward to establishing Rain and the ACCELi technology as the pre-eminent low cost, commercial DLE company.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

EPA standards do not reflect “safe” levels of exposure to harmful pollutants. Instead, they are agreed-upon measures that attempt to balance the protection of as many people as possible, the limits of pollution detection and control technology, and industry’s opportunities to reduce costs.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

The draft white paper presents information on the performance of state-of-the-art combustion turbine technologies and describes additional opportunities for GHG emission cuts. States and the public may also find the white paper useful to inform state-level actions to combat climate change and individual permitting considerations.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2024

Is EPA’s new climate rule a sneaky effort to eliminate coal or a valid pollution standard? Some new arguments made by EPA convince me that it’s pursuing a time-tested approach to pollution control. Simply put, the Inflation Reduction Act has made CCS an economically feasible technology.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Everybody knows there are straightforward management practices and technologies that could significantly reduce agricultural water pollution. For fifty years the Clean Water Act has exempted agriculture from federal regulation and left the problem for the states to regulate.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

7 Screening Of Hurricane Agnes 50: Life After The Flood; It Happened Before And Flooding Will Be Worse In The Future Due To Climate Change Expanding Meaningful Environmental and Watershed Literacy With Geospatial Technology Tools And Practice Online Educator Training Starting Sept. 30 Manada Conservancy Hosts Sept. 1 POLLINATORS!

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

Units with existing advanced NOx controls must optimize their utilization by 2023. The history of the Clean Act clearly shows that Congress intended state-of-the-art controls such as SCRs to be applied to new sources through New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and Best Available Control Technology (BACT) reviews in clean air areas.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Environmental regulation. EPA and agencies have dozens of guidance documents and regulations about analytical methods to be used for environmental samples. Based on regulations and scientific knowledge, commercial laboratories have an established suite of chemicals they typically look for in environmental samples. Limitations.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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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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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.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. The conventional regulations were challenged in Commonwealth Court by conventional oil and gas operators. [The Read more here. [In Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency on July 5 imposed new regulations meant to control their hazardous emissions, including benzene, mercury, lead, and arsenic. The public health risk is unacceptable, and so we are asking the D.C.

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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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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. By January 1, 2022, MDE must adopt regulations that establish license eligibility criteria, minimum training standards, license terms, and fees for license applications and renewals.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

That’s primarily due to two key features of the CWA: first, a nationwide permit system designed to mandate aggressive application of pollution control technology to limit pollution from “point sources” such as factories and power plants.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Of Environmental Professionals Host March 18 Webinar On Emerging PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Treatment Technologies [PaEN] -- Patch.com: Radnor Environmental Advisory Council To Host Lecture Series In Delaware County -- Call For Presentations: PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Inviting Presentation Proposals For Annual Conference Sept.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2022

Minnesota state regulators are penalizing the oil and gas company Enbridge for harming groundwater during the construction of the Line 3 pipeline. Other grants will be spent on projects to reduce gang violence, restore historic sites, and fund health technology. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor. This Week’s Watersheds. Other News.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

On June 14, the Environmental Quality Board voted 15 to 3, with one abstention, to adopt Part I of a revised final regulation reducing volatile organic compounds and methane emissions from just unconventional (shale gas) wells and facilities. Representatives of Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) and John St.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

We came up with the concept of applying state-of-the-art technology on pad, so not from distant monitoring stations, but basically on pad, to monitor, record these type of data-- PM2.5, CNX has been given free license by our regulators and water authorities to operate however they want. The incident should have been preventable.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping plans to reconsider more than 31 major environmental regulations and programs, including pulling back regulations reducing methane emissions and regulating production wastewater from oil and gas operations. Click Here for the announcement.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2022

On July 21, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted unanimously 5 to 0 to approve Part I of final Environmental Quality Board regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane emissions from unconventional (shale gas) wells and facilities. The Preamble to the revised rulemaking says “.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The tools and technology for achieving that goal in agriculture are well understood and applied with differing levels of authority, commitment, and effectiveness around the world, but not across the United States. a potential solution is chemical technology to scrub harmful algal blooms from lakes. In the U.S., Circle Blue.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

27 Webinar: General Update Of Large-Scale Solar In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- LancasterOnline: Solar Energy Projects On Manheim Twp.

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