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Food manufacturing company in Ward Hill, Mass. Cited for clean air act violations
A food manufacturing company from Ward Hill, Mass., faces a possible $108,320 fine for 12 violations of the federal Clean Air Act. According to a complaint filed by EPA’s New England office, Cedar’s Mediterranean Foods Inc. violated the Stratospheric Ozone Protection regulations of the federal Clean Air Act that establish requirements for the service, maintenance, repair, and ...
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Climate Change Having Major Effect on U.S. Law, ABA Book Finds
CHICAGO May 25, 2007 – Though Congress has not adopted any laws that explicitly require the control of greenhouse gas emissions, concern over climate change has already begun to have a significant effect on U.S. law. Most of the states and many cities have adopted laws aimed at climate change. Lawsuits have been brought all over the country concerning the applicability of the Clean Air Act, the ...
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A&WMA Announces Workshop Series
Pittsburgh, PA - The Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) will hold a series of workshops throughout 2011 to provide environmental professionals with updated information on writing and submitting air quality permits, based on new and revised Clean Air Act regulations. “Keeping up with permitting guidance related to new air quality regulations and changes to older Clean Air ...
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U.S. EPA fines Bay Area auto dealer for air violations
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fined a Sunnyvale Ford dealership $37,700 for alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act. Sunnyvale Ford Inc, located at 650 E. El Camino Real in Sunnyvale, failed to comply with federal requirements for mechanics who service and repair automobile air conditioning systems. Mechanics at the facility lacked the EPA-approved training ...
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California Governor Calls for Ban on All Combustion Fueled Vehicles
Last Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-79-20 that calls for sales of all new passenger cars and light trucks to be zero emission vehicles by 2035. The Executive Order also directs the Air Resources Board to adopt requirements that all medium- and heavy-duty vehicles must be zero emission vehicles by 2045 to the extent this is feasible. Drayage trucks serving the ...
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Kansas Power Giant Adopts Cautious Climate Change Policy
TOPEKA, Kansas, September 12, 2007 (ENS) - The largest electric utility in Kansas has formally adopted a climate change policy which provides the company a framework within which to make corporate decisions that affect the environment. The publicly traded Westar Energy, Inc. provides service to 673,000 customers with 12 power plants - 11 are fueled with coal, oil and natural gas, and one is a ...
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Linking air quality and climate change can be cost-effective
If the effects of air pollution on climate change are included in air quality strategies, efficiency gains of €2.5 billion can be achieved in the EU, according to recent research. Various greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and pollutants both affect the climate and air quality, yet climate change and air pollution are often treated separately in environmental policy. Air pollutants are regulated ...
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Vermont Official Honored with EPA Clean Air Excellence Award
Richard A. Valentinetti of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources was honored today by EPA with a national “2014 Clean Air Excellence Award” for “Outstanding Individual Achievement.” Dick Valentinetti, of Moretown, is the longest-serving state air director in the country. During his lengthy career he has demonstrated a lasting commitment to improving air quality in ...
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EPA proposes air pollution standards for oil and gas production/cost-effective, flexible standards rely on operators` ability to capture and sell natural gas that currently escapes, threatens air quality
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed standards to reduce harmful air pollution from oil and gas drilling operations. These proposed updated standards - which are being issued in response to a court order - would rely on cost-effective existing technologies to reduce emissions that contribute to smog pollution and can cause cancer while supporting the ...
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California regulators to restore emissions-cutting fuel rule
California regulators are poised to restore a first-in-the-nation climate change program that requires a 10 percent cut in carbon emissions on transportation fuels sold in the state by 2020, despite oil industry objections that it could drive up gas prices. After the program survived a lengthy legal challenge from fuel makers, regulators are expected to vote Friday on the clean fuel standard, ...
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How to make a Positive Impact on the Environment this Earth Day
Wednesday, April 22, 2020, marks the 50th annual Earth Day. Earth Day was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, who was concerned that environmental issues were not being addressed. He created the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, as a "national teach-in on the environment,” with celebrations taking place at universities, primary and secondary schools, and communities across the United ...
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EPA moves ahead on climate change, with or without Congress
U.S. President Barack Obama might have failed to pass any substantive climate change legislation in the outgoing Congress’ otherwise productive final weeks, but that hasn’t stopped some action on climate from occurring before the year’s end. Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced last week – on Dec. 23, no less, only a day after the ...
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EPA sets stricter emission standards for oil refineries
The Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules Tuesday to reduce toxic air pollution from oil refineries by forcing operators to adopt new technology that better monitors and controls emissions. The rules will require for the first time that refineries install air monitors along "fence lines" where pollution enters neighboring communities. The monitors will measure levels of benzene and ...
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Green America calls on legislators to protect the EPA`s authority to enforce the clean air act
In a letter sent to all members of Congress today, national nonprofit Green America asked all members of the House and Senate to oppose efforts to undermine the EPA's authority to enforce the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon emissions. Writing on behalf of Green America's 140,000 individual members and 5,000 business members, Green America Executive Director Alisa Gravitz provided the following ...
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EPA to Propose Endangerment Finding For Aircraft Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency said it will propose an endangerment finding for greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft in late April 2015. The EPA would be required by the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases from aircraft if it determines the emissions endanger public health or the environment, it said in a Sept. 3 summary. Finalizing the proposed endangerment finding would take a ...
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Court Revives EPA Rule on Cross-State Pollution
In a major anti-pollution ruling, the Supreme Court on Tuesday backed federally imposed limits on smokestack emissions that cross state lines and burden downwind areas with bad air from power plants they can't control. The 6-2 ruling was an important victory for the Obama administration in controlling emissions from power plants in 27 Midwestern and Appalachian states that contribute to soot and ...
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State Tailpipe Standards Could Limit Warming, If Allowed
Washington, DC - Tailpipe standards already in place in 12 states would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 400 million metric tons by 2020 – a reduction equivalent to taking 74 million of today's cars off the road for a year, finds a new report released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, U.S. PIRG. Passenger vehicles are the second largest source of global warming emissions ...
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Can congress thwart EPA’s emission standards proposal?
Late last month, the day after the U.S.’s 111th Congress officially adjourned, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson announced that, despite the fact lawmakers failed to pass President Barack Obama’s ambitious energy bill, the organization would tackle climate change within its own means by regulating greenhouse gas emissions for power plants and refineries. In the wake of that ...
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EPA must be free to pursue its legal mandate to clean up air pollution, bicep coalition representative timberland company tells congress
A Timberland Company official, representing both the company and the wider Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) coalition, testified at today’s opening hearing on an effort by House Republicans to restrict the EPA’s authority that moves to curb the regulation of greenhouse gas and other air pollution are mistaken. Timberland Senior Manager Betsy Blaisdell told ...
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California Praised for Approving Climate Law Plan to Cut Pollution
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) praised California's Air Resources Board (CARB) for approving a blueprint today for reducing climate change pollution that complements new state and federal actions designed to improve air quality. California's plan will work alongside other public health rules, including more stringent ozone and air toxics standards. CARB originally approved its Climate Change ...
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