News & Analysis as of

National Ambient Air Quality Standards Carbon Emissions Air Pollution

Troutman Pepper

EPA Lowers Annual PM2.5 NAAQS, With Immediate Impacts for Air Permitting

Troutman Pepper on

Exercising one of its most important and far-reaching powers under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has lowered the primary annual National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for fine particulate...more

Williams Mullen

Recap from the Trenches: Reactions to EPA’s 2023 Big Air Agenda

Williams Mullen on

The first three quarters of 2023 have seen an unprecedented number of rulemakings under the Clean Air Act. The Biden administration has released a new suite of proposed rulemakings with a particular focus on climate change...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

PM 2.5/Soot/Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee: Draft Letter Recommending Reconsideration of National Ambient Air Quality...

The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (“CASAC”) sent a February 4th letter to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) addressing the following subject: CASAC Review of the EPA’s Policy Assessment for...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

The Internal Combustion Engine Is Bad For Your Health — What Should We Do About It?

I’ve written a lot about how the developing science around particulate exposure supports making the PM2.5 NAAQS more stringent. So it won’t come as a surprise that a new study published in the Proceedings of the National...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

PM2.5 and Environmental Justice - and Electric Vehicles– and Tires

I’ve frequently discussed in recent years the mounting evidence for the need to lower the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for PM2.5. There is also substantial evidence that PM exposure is an environmental justice issue....more

(ACOEL) | American College of Environmental...

Has The Time Come For A Greenhouse Gas NAAQS? Law Students Will Argue The Issue At The 33rd Annual National Environmental Moot...

One thing that is clear from the 2020 election: the Senate will remain closely divided, with slim majority control to be determined by the two January Senate runoff races in Georgia. President Elect Biden has announced the...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

COVID-19 and PM2.5 Are Still Not a Healthy Mix

In April, I noted that researchers at the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health had identified a relationship between PM-2.5 exposure and mortality from COVID-19. That study received some criticism, and it certainly did...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Particulate Matter NAAQS/Clean Air Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Retains Current Standard

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced it is proposing to retain the current Clean Air Act National Ambient Air Quality Standard (“NAAQS”) for particulate matter (“PM”). The PM standard includes...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Clean Air Act: Maryland Attorney General Federal District Lawsuit Alleging U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Failure to Act on...

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (“AG”) filed a Complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland alleging a violation of the Clean Air Act by the United States Environmental Protection Agency...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

House Subcommittee To Review EPA Emissions Plan

The House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and Power announced that it will hold a hearing to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

EPA Proposes Unprecedented Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Program

Latham & Watkins LLP on

We analyze EPA’s novel proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants as it will shape its regulation of other industry sectors. On June 2, 2014, EPA released its long-anticipated proposal to...more

Bracewell LLP

Texas Environmental Update

Bracewell LLP on

Gunnison Sage Grouse Continues Its Wobbly Path Toward Listing Energy Legal Blog, May 14, 2014 - Last week, the Gunnison Sage Grouse took another detour on its road to being listed under the Endangered Species Act...more

12 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide