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EPA Projects Final ‘Good Neighbor Plan’ Will Result in 14 GW of Coal Retirements

March 16, 2023 admin air quality, Business, Coal, coal closures, csapr, Environmental, EPA, full coverage, Gas, good neighbor plan, Legal & Regulatory, low-nox burners, Markets, NAAQS, news, NOx, over-fire air, ozone, power plants, regulations, scr, smog, sncr

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:23:48 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 15 issued the final “Good Neighbor Plan,” its latest iteration of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) that could require coal, oil, or gas steam power plants in 22 states to reduce their nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions levels by 50% by 2027 compared to the 2021 ozone season. […]

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EPA Reinterprets ‘Ambient Air,’ Further Tweaks New Source Review

December 5, 2019 admin adjacent, Air pollution, ambient air, Business, clean air act, Coal, courts, DRONES, Environmental, environmental defense fund, EPA, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, major sources, modifications, NAAQS, news, nsr, nsr reform, paper mills, power plants, psd, Security, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:49:52 +0000

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a change to a long-standing policy interpreting “ambient air”—a foundational concept under the Clean Air Act that applies to all types of air pollution, from ground-level ozone, particulate matter, and greenhouse gases. While the agency framed the change as part of a suite of actions to reform New Source […]

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EPA to Retain Primary NAAQS for Sulfur Dioxide

February 28, 2019 admin Coal, emissions, Environmental, EPA, Legal & Regulatory, NAAQS, news, NOx, SO2

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:32:15 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will refrain from amending the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for sulfur dioxide (SO2), retaining a 2010 rule, which it said adequately protects public health. The agency on Feb. 25 said in a notice that a periodically required review of the primary—or health-based—rule concluded no revision was necessary. The […]

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Clean Air Act Issues Congress Could Grapple With in New Session

January 9, 2019 admin 116th congress, ace, clean air act, Clean Power Plan, Coal, Congress, courts, Environmental, environmental rules, EPA, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, MATS, NAAQS, news, nsps

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 15:48:02 +0000

While the Republican-led U.S. House and Senate in the 115th Congress was mainly focused on reviewing, for modification or repeal, several environmental rules issued under the Clean Air Act (CAA), the new Democrat majority in the House could focus on a slew of different measures, a new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) suggests. […]

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EPA Will Not Revisit Obama-Era NAAQS for Ozone

August 2, 2018 admin Business, casc, Coal, courts, D.C. Circuit, Environmental, EPA, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, NAAQS, news, Obama, ozone, Trump

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not intend to revisit national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ozone that the Obama administration issued in 2015, a court filing shows. The agency said in its final status report submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on August 1 that it has reviewed […]

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