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Policy & Enforcement Briefing: CA Tweaks Environmental Reviews; Hecla Settles; RGGI All-Time Low

September 12, 2011 by Environmental Leader

A group of environmentalists has launched a campaign urging EPA administrator Lisa Jackson not to resign, after President Obama ordered the agency to scrap a two-year-old proposal to tighten national air quality standards for ground-level ozone, The New York Times reported. After Jackson refused to defend Obama’s decision last week, ... Read more »

Policy and Enforcement Briefing: Unspent Stimulus, Chorus of Criticism over Ozone, NY Fracking Study

September 9, 2011 by Environmental Leader

About one-third of the money authorized for an energy efficiency program in the 2009 economic stimulus bill has not yet been spent despite promises to immediately create green jobs, a government audit found, according to The Associated Press. Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman said the unspent $879 million, of an original $2.7 billion, frustrates the central ... Read more »

Compliance & Standards Briefing: Benefit Corps, LEED, Maine in an EU First

August 30, 2011August 30, 2011 by Environmental Leader

New research from California, Oregon and Washington shows that homes with LEED or other third-party energy efficiency certifications sell faster and net higher prices than other homes, The Los Angeles Times reported. One study, by the Earth Advantage Institute, found that new homes with certifications sold for 8 percent more ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Raw Material Reporting, XL Go-Ahead, ConocoPhillips Sued

August 26, 2011 by Environmental Leader

The EPA on Thursday said it would delay reporting rules that will require manufacturers and power plants to submit information on the raw materials they use that lead to greenhouse-gas emissions, Bloomberg reported. The rule was to take effect this year, but has been pushed back until March 31, 2013. ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Nuclear Fears, Strange Bedfellows, EPA Review

August 24, 2011 by Environmental Leader

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) completed a final version of its regulatory review plan on Tuesday to comply with President Barack Obama’s order that agency rules not overly burden business, The Hill reported. The EPA said it will review 35 regulations under the final plan with an eye toward “modifying, ... Read more »

Duke Energy Threatens Coal Plant Closure In Light of EPA MACT Rule

July 21, 2011July 21, 2011 by Leon Walker

Duke Energy Ohio is threatening to decommission all six coal-fired generation units at a plant near Cincinnati, by Jan. 1, 2015, unless changes are made to a proposed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulation. The energy company announced its intent to retire the six units at its W.C. Beckjord Station, – ... Read more »

Ammonia Distributor Settles With EPA, Agrees to Install 14 Leak Detection Systems

July 21, 2011July 21, 2011 by Leon Walker

National ammonia distributor Tanner Industries has agreed to install and operate $345,000 of ammonia leak detection systems at 14 facilities across the country to settle claims by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the company violated federal clean air regulations on chemical risk management at plants in Rhode Island and ... Read more »

EPA Proposes New Secondary Standards For NOx, SOx

July 15, 2011July 18, 2011 by Leon Walker

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed secondary air quality standards to protect the environment from nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides. The agency is proposing both to retain the existing secondary standards for NOx and SOx, and to add new secondary standards. The existing secondary standards are: For NO2: 0.053 ... Read more »

Kenmore, Rheem, LG to Display New Energy Star Seal

July 14, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Electrolux, Sears Kenmore, LG and Samsung are a few of the brands that have earned a new Energy Star label designating the most energy-efficient products in each category. The Most Efficient pilot initiative is being run by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy as part of the Energy ... Read more »

EPA to Limit Drifting Smog

July 7, 2011July 7, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized widely anticipated Clean Air Act regulations on pollution that crosses state lines. In an announcement shortly before noon Eastern, the EPA said the Clean Air Transport Rule will cut hundreds of thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions that ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Hecla Settles for $263m in Huge Superfund Case

June 15, 2011 by Leon Walker

The Hecla Mining Company will pay $263.4 million plus interest to the United States, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and the state of Idaho to resolve claims that it released millions of tons of wastes from its mining operations. The settlement resolves one of the largest cases ever filed under the ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Wastewater CEO Sent to Prison

June 14, 2011June 14, 2011 by Leon Walker

An owner and operator of wastewater treatment facilities has been sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana to 21 months in prison and a $310,000 criminal fine for violating the Clean Water Act. Jeffrey Pruett, the CEO of LWC Management Company, Inc. and principal of ... Read more »

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