Clean Air Act

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Clean Air Act

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 19 mins ago - 4 reports

CVR refinery in Coffeyville, Kan., to pay $300,000 penalty to EPA

An oil refinery in Coffevyille, Kan., will pay a $300,000 penalty in what federal regulators called the facility's third environmental settlement in 13 months, the EPA announced Wednesday.The CVR Energy Inc. facility, 75 miles from Tulsa, agreed to the ... [Published Tulsa World - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Coffeyville (United States), Refinery, Wynnewood (United States), Tulsa, CVR Energy Inc

First reported 33 mins ago - Updated 33 mins ago - 1 reports

US Environmental Protection Agency

Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Air Quality Standards Revision

SUMMARY: EPA is approving a revision to the Illinois state implementation plan (SIP) to reflect current National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and particulate matter (PM). EPA is approving a revision to add new incorporations by reference ... [Published Zecco - 33 mins ago]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, Ozone, Air Quality Standards, Executive Order

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Frank R Lautenberg

Lautenberg's bill would update chemical safety

Brad Plumer, Washington PostWASHINGTON - The U.S. law on chemical safety is 37 years old, riddled with exceptions and widely considered ineffective - so much so that the government hasn't even tried to restrict an unsafe chemical since courts overturned ... [Published Philadelphia Daily News - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Chemical, Frank R Lautenberg, David Vitter, Clean Air Act, Asbestos

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Roy Blunt

Lawmakers seek presidential change in proposed EPA rule

Missouri's Republican delegation in Congress wrote a letter to President Obama this week that urges tempering of a suggested EPA regulation that the lawmakers say will hurt the state's economy and threaten the coal-fired electrical industry.North Missouri ... [Published Individual.com - 12 hours ago]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, Roy Blunt, Coal, Ken Newton, KCP&L

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Do Liability Policies, Particularly Pollution Liability Insurance Policies, Exclude Coverage for All Injunctions? The Fifth Circuit Says No.

The Fifth Circuit handed down an important decision last week, Louisiana Generating LLC v. Illinois Union Insurance Company, clarifying the scope of coverage under a Premises Pollution Liability Insurance Policy. The policyholder sought coverage for a ... [Published JD Supra - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Pollution, Injunctive Relief, Injunction, Clean Air Act, Liability

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

NRG Settles Lawsuit with the States of New Jersey and Connec. . .

NRG Settles Lawsuit with the States of New Jersey and ConnecticutNRG Energy, Inc.NewsRx.comBy a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Energy Weekly News -- NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) has agreed with the States of New Jersey and Connecticut to settle a ... [Published Equities.com - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Lawsuit, NRG Energy Inc, Consent Decree, Clean Air Act

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 2 reports

Chamber of Commerce Attacks Health Safeguards, Law Enforcement

, Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C.The Chamber of Commerce has joined leagues with Congressional extremists to urge obstructing the enforcement of federal health, environmental and financial safeguards that have proven too popular ... [Published NRDC Worldview - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Consent Decree, Chamber of Commerce, Decree, Collusion, Clean Air Act

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Greenhouse gas case explained

In a flurry of activity at a pace unusual for a government agency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a span of less than six months reeled off a series of rulings that brought a major expansion of federal policy aimed at curbing global warming ... [Published SCOTUSblog - 19 hours ago]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, Greenhouse Gas, Supreme Court, Clean Air Act

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 2 reports

Fracking roundtable: Congress must close loopholes for industry in protective laws

, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C.Tomorrow, I’m headed to the U.S. Senate for a forum on the environmental impacts of shale gas development before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. I’ll be joined by members of the oil and gas industry, ... [Published NRDC Worldview - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Hydraulic Fracturing, Drinking Water, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 22 hours ago - 4 reports

EPA skirts Tier 3 public review

American Petroleum Institute (API) Downstream Group Director, Bob Greco, has urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to immediately extend its comment period for proposed Tier 3 rules. The API has asked that the EPA follow standard Clean Air Act ... [Published Energy Global - 22 hours ago]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, Gasoline, Environ, Clean Air Act

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Supreme Court won't accept tribe's suit against energy giants

| More on: , , , , The on Monday rejected a petition in . The Native Village of Kivalina, a federally recognized tribe, sued 24 energy giants in 2008, accusing the companies of contributing to . The tribe says rising temperatures are to blame for erosion ... [Published Indianz - May 21 2013]

Entities: Supreme Court, Tribe, Chukchi Sea, Clean Air Act

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Clean Air Act law, reality collide

Nothing in the law allows for the invisible danger from “upset” emissions to persist, but legislation and reality often collide.On the contrary, the federal Clean Air Act was meant to reduce harmful emissions by requiring continuous pollution limits for ... [Published Center For Public Integrity - May 21 2013]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Air Act, Emission

Quotes

...settlement with CRRM illustrates the extent of environmental problems the facility needed to fix," said EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks. "Together these settlements will result in sustained environmental improvement at the facility, making Coffeyville a safer place to live and CRRM a safer place to work."

EPA: Coffeyville, Kansas Refinery To Pay $300,000 Penalty [Published KOTV - 19 mins ago]

"This bill is basically the least that could be done" Cook said...

Susan Collins co-sponsors groundbreaking overhaul of chemical safety law [Published Individual.com - 2 hours ago]

"I want people to see the connections, because they're there" she said

Vote seeks EPA investigation of air quality from power plant [Published Portsmouth Herald - 7 hours ago]

"We ask that the president amend the proposed rule to utilize a technology-based approach to reduce carbon emissions rather than come up with an approach that is impossible to achieve" Mr. Blunt said on Wednesday. KCP&L provides electrical service to St Joseph and other locales in Northwest Missouri

Lawmakers seek presidential change in proposed EPA rule [Published Individual.com - 12 hours ago]

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