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U.S. EPA has issued a proposed rule on the confidentiality determinations it believes are appropriate for the data and...


Tags: Energy, Environment, GHG

Ohio EPA - Permit Processing After U.S. District Court <10 Ton/Year Exemption Decision

The Ohio EPA's Division of Air Pollution Control has revised its February 19, 2010 memo that describes DAPC's approach to...


Tags: Environment

Proposed Consent Decree Filed on Residual Risk Standards

According to the provisions of a proposed consent decree filed July 6 (Sierra Club v. Jackson, N.D. Cal., No. 09-152), USEPA will...


Tags: Clean Air Act, Environment

U.S. EPA has issued a final rule for the mandatory reporting of greenhouse gases from four additional sources: magnesium...


Tags: Environment, GHG

Natural gas is expected to double its share of the energy market, according to a study done by the Massachusetts Institute of...


Tags: Energy, Environment

By Greg Russell On June 22, 2010

Moratorium Struck Down

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction today prohibiting the Interior...


Tags: Energy, Environment

Sulfur Dioxide Air Quality Standard

Today the USEPA published its revised primary ambient air quality rule (75 FR 35520) for sulfur dioxide. A new 1-hour standard...


Tags: Environment

Coal Combustion Residual Indecision?

Today the USEPA proposed two alternative options (75 FR 35128) for regulating coal combustion residuals ("CCR"). Under the first...


Tags: Coal, Residuals, Combustion, Coal Combustion Residuals,

We posted earlier on the hydraulic fracturing study that U.S. EPA plans to do (see here, e.g.).  EPA has announced that it will be...


Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Energy, Environment

EPA Reanalyzing Dioxin Toxicity

On June 14, USEPA gave notice of a July 9, 2010 "listening session" related to its external review draft document entitled "EPA's...


Tags: Dioxin, Environment

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