Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

EPA has proposed a novel reading of the Clean Air Act (CAA) that would foreclose any regulation of CO2 emissions from power plants. The CAA statute does not require that EPA make any specific finding about the significance of carbon emissions from power plants, because power plants are already on EPA’s master list of polluting industries.

Pollution Control

Legal Planet

APRIL 10, 2025

The DOE could decide to shut down its Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, which helps launch emerging clean technologies, as early as next week, sources familiar with the matter have told Latitude Media. As of Wednesday night, the House delayed a vote on a Trump-backed budget bill after some Republicans expressed dissatisfaction with it.

Nitrogen Oxides

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.

Natural Gas

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.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

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

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin published an op-ed highlighting steps the agency is taking to reduce burdensome regulations, unleash American energy dominance, and make America the AI capital of the world. Revolution"-- Upon returning from the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation summit this week, U.S.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

But this seemingly simple calculation turns out to be riddled with uncertainties, particularly when you’re talking about regulating the energy industry. Those uncertainties need more attention in designing regulations. That’s because figuring out what the regulation actually cost is tricky.

2011

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.

Clean Water Act

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste. And then there’s money to prepare for the possibility of dioxane entering the city’s water supply — another pollutant not subject to drinking water regulations.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Which means the consequences of these polluters unabashedly continuing to pollute aren’t just severe—they’re compounding. The IRA gave us effective tools for cleaning up the power sector through dedicated support for the rapid and widescale deployment of renewable resources and the technologies that support them.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations governing implementation of the 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit , passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act. What’s at stake The climate implications of these decisions cannot be overstated.

Fossil Fuels

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.

2022

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Regulation targets emissions from auxiliary engines (which supply electricity for non-propulsive functions while a ship is berthed) and boilers (which power steam-driven pumps to offload crude oil from large tankers). On February 13, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. 93130 et seq). Western States Petroleum Association v.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2025

As EV technology has continued to improve, automakers have brought more affordable models to market and used-vehicle inventory has grown. Battery-electric trucks are one of the most cost-effective and consequential technologies we have to reduce pollution from vehicles.

Electricity

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).

Carbon Dioxide

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.

Clean Air Act

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.

Clean Air Act

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.

Regulations

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.

Natural Gas

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.

Regulations

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.”

Clean Air Act

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.

Clean Water Act

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.

Natural Gas

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.

Clean Water Act

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.

2021

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.

Law

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.

Natural Gas

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.

Natural Gas

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.

Natural Gas

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 “.

Radiation

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.

Carbon Emissions

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.

Clean Water Act

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!

Conservation

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.

Ozone

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.

Natural Gas

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.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Gas stoves, which are in 38 percent of US households, not only emit methane, but also toxic pollutants besides NO2 that are associated with respiratory ailments and cancer. A 2022 study in Environmental Science and Technology detected more than 20 volatile organic compounds, including hexane, toluene and benzene, in unburned stove gas.

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