Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 14:59:50 +0000
The U.S. Supreme Court has said that rules requiring power plants burning fossil fuels to reduce emissions of toxic substances can stand, dealing a blow to several Republican-led states and […]
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Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:00:22 +0000
Four final rules deliver on the Biden-Harris Administration’s day-one commitment to lead on climate action and to protect all communities from pollution WASHINGTON — Today, April 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a suite of final rules to reduce pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants in order to protect … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:28:19 +0000
In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 25 simultaneously finalized four major environmental rules covering greenhouse gases (GHG), air toxics, wastewater discharges, and coal combustion […]
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Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 20:24:57 +0000
The miniature atomic clock is a big step toward self-driving deep space probes.
Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 02:47:33 +0000
An environmental group called on the DOH in Northern Mindanao to crackdown on the sale of skin-lightening cosmetics laden with mercury.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 22:08:55 +0000
Because compliance costs to coal- and oil-fired power plants for the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) far exceed quantifiable benefits to regulating hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions, the Trump administration has proposed it is not “appropriate and necessary” to regulate HAP emissions from power plants under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act (CAA), […]
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Read moreIndustry aggressively fought the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) when the Obama administration proposed it in 2011 and finalized it in February 2012, warning it would precipitate the closure of a swathe of coal capacity nationwide. Six years later, the rule appears to have had a sizable impact on the power sector, but not […]
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