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.
Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2022
First, the agency needs to figure out which changes in the power sector were due to new technologies, other regulations, or market shifts. This would be especially challenging for the mercury rule, according to EPA, “because the rule regulates hundreds of units within a complex, interdependent, and dynamic economic sector.”
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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.
Circle of Blue
APRIL 5, 2022
Other grants will be spent on projects to reduce gang violence, restore historic sites, and fund health technology. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced a new statewide monitoring system for PFAS, the family of toxic chemicals sweeping across water systems in the Midwest and beyond. ON THE HILL: U.S. Other News.
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.
Circle of Blue
JULY 28, 2021
The Hindustan Times reports that the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board identified six major drains as the main sources of the pollution. People familiar with the situation said potential investors were deterred by the plant’s old age, use of outdated technology, and poor environmental credentials. 30 CASES.
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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