EPA's final rule for how states should implement the 2015 ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) expands their ability to cite international emissions as a reason to waive some emissions control requirements, but the regulation sidesteps key legal questions on weakening air pollution ...
EPA’s Review Of Lead NAAQS Faces Uncertain Future Ahead Of Trump Term Oil & Gas Producers Detail Push To Scale Back Biden EPA Methane Rule Court Pauses Suit Over EPA Smelter Rule, Clearing Path For Trump Decision Environmentalists Sue EPA Over Stricter Air Source Reclassification Rule ...
(NAAQS)byaddinganew5-minutestandardof0.60ppm,1expectedexceedance;establishinganewregulatoryprogramundersection303oftheCleanAirActtosupplementtheprotectionprovidedbytheexistingNAAQS;andaugmentingimplementationoftheexistingstandardsbyfocusingonthosesourcesorsourcetypeslikelytoproducehigh5-minutepeakSOconcentrations.2Includedin...
could push a final standard until the end of August or later."EPA believes that this inter-agency review will be completed shortly, after which EPA expects expeditiously to sign the final action that will complete its rulemaking reconsidering the ozone NAAQS rule," the agency said in an Aug....
31A coalition of 14 states is urging a federal appeals court to require EPA to make a decision by Dec. 31 on the agency's proposal to tighten the Bush-era ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) or, alternatively, to allow litigation over the standard to proceed if EPA fails ...
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is defending his just-announced final decision to retain the agency’s current federal ozone standards, fending off criticisms from environmentalists, former agency advisers and others that the Trump administration downpl
“commercialinterestshaveinappropriatelyinducedthereversalorwithdrawalofEPAscientificconclusionsordecisionsthroughpoliticalintervention.” 719scientistsfeltthatEPA’sdeterminationsoccasionally,seldom,ornevermakeuseofthebestjudgmentofitsscientificstaff.RegulatingMercuryEmissionfromPowerPlantsOnMarch15,2005,theEPAissueditsfinalrule...
Challenge to EPA rule revising PM NAAQS Cases/ Energy and Environment/ Forum U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Case Status Pending Docket Number 24-1051 Share Cookie Notice By clicking “Accept All”, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation,...
2.52.5NAAQS Summary On January 15, 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule revising the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM). The revised air quality standards were completed pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA) and, in part,...
The article reports that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final rule that emissions from a coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania contributes to downwind nonattainment and interfere with the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) in the U.S. EPA has granted a ...