Download or read book The Impact of the Clean Air Act s Nonattainment Provisions and the EPA S Bubble Policy on Industrial Development written by David Wayne Dyke and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EPA s Anti Industrial Policy written by Matt Dempsey and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. This report examined the impacts on jobs and the economy from the EPA¿s greenhouse gas (GG) proposals, as well as three other significant EPA rules. It concludes that these rules threaten the economic viability of America¿s manufacturing base and hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs. Moreover, these rules will bring little, if any, public health or environ. benefits. As Americans suffer through a jobless recovery, EPA is pursuing policies that exacerbate our economic problems and do not improve the environment. Contents of this report: Intro.; A Note on the Clean Air Act; Findings: Commercial/Industrial Boiler Maximum Achievable Control Technology; Revised Ozone Standard; Portland Cement Standards; Regulating GG; Conclusion.
Download or read book Oversight of EPA s Implementation of the Nonattainment Provisions of the Clean Air Act in the Lake Michigan Region written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Download or read book The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Activity written by Michael Greenstone and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper estimates the effects of environmental regulations on industrial activity. The analysis is conducted with the most comprehensive data available on both regulations from the Clean Air Act Amendments' division of counties into pollutant-specific nonattainment and attainment categories and manufacturing activity from the 1.75 million plant observations that comprise the 1967-87 Censuses of Manufactures. Emitters of the controlled pollutants are subject to greater regulatory oversight in nonattainment counties. I find that in the first 15 years after the Amendments became law (1972- 1987), nonattainment counties (relative to attainment ones) lost approximately 590,000 jobs, $37 billion in capital stock, and $75 billion (1987$) of output in pollution intensive industries. These estimates are derived from a statistical model for plant-level growth that controls for plant fixed effects, unrestricted industry shocks, and unrestricted county shocks. Importantly these findings are robust across many specifications, and the effects are apparent across a wide range of polluting industries. Although the decline in manufacturing activity was substantial in nonattainment counties, it was modest compared to the size of the entire manufacturing sector
Download or read book EPA s Particulate Matter and Ozone Rulemaking written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulations Under the Clean Air Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts and the Need for Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight of Clean Air Act Implementation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Benefits and Impact on Moderate sized Businesses of Employee Commute Options Required by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Development of Rural Enterprises, Exports, and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Pollution written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rulemaking pursuant to the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, focusing on: (1) White House involvement in the rulemaking process; (2) changes that occurred after White House participation; and (3) EPA compliance with public docket requirements. GAO found that: (1) two EPA Clean Air Act rules significantly changed after White House participation; (2) there is no evidence that EPA violated Clean Air Act public docket requirements, since it was not required to docket communications between White House entities and nongovernment persons; (3) docket requirements facilitate effective public participation in the rulemaking process and provide the basis for a reviewing court to determine that an EPA rulemaking is not arbitrary and capricious; (4) although EPA and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) have established procedures for OMB to disclose communications with outside parties, OMB has not always done so; (5) White House failure to disclose all communications on proposed rulemaking could decrease public confidence in the integrity of the rulemaking process; and (6) Congress has considered legislation that would require the disclosure of all oral and written communications between nongovernment persons and White House entities on federal rulemakings.
Download or read book Clean Air Issues in the 112th Congress written by James E. Mccarthy and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air quality has improved substantially in the United States in the 40 years of EPA's Clean Air Act regulation, but more needs to be done, according to the agency's science advisers, to protect public health and the environment from the effects of air pollution. Thus, the agency continues to promulgate regulations addressing air pollution using authority given it by Congress more than 20 years ago. In the 112th Congress, Members from both parties have raised questions about the cost effectiveness of some of these regulations and/or whether the agency has exceeded its regulatory authority in promulgating them. Others in Congress have supported EPA, noting that the Clean Air Act, often affirmed in court decisions, has authorized or required the agency's actions. EPA's regulatory actions on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been one focus of congressional interest. Although the Obama Administration has consistently said that it would prefer that Congress pass new legislation to address climate change, such legislation now seems unlikely. Instead, over the last three years, EPA has developed GHG regulations using its existing Clean Air Act authority. EPA finalized GHG emission standards for cars and light trucks on April 1, 2010, and on August 28, 2012, and for larger trucks on August 9, 2011. The implementation of these standards, in turn, triggered permitting and Best Available Control Technology requirements for new major stationary sources of GHGs. It is the triggering of standards for stationary sources (power plants, manufacturing facilities, etc.) that has raised the most concern in Congress: legislation has been considered in both the House and Senate aimed at preventing EPA from implementing these requirements. In the first session of this Congress, the House passed H.R. 1, which contained provisions prohibiting the use of appropriated funds to implement various EPA GHG regulatory activities, and H.R. 910, a bill that would repeal EPA's endangerment finding, redefine “air pollutants” to exclude greenhouse gases, and prohibit EPA from promulgating any regulation to address climate change. In the Senate, H.R. 1 was defeated, and an amendment identical to H.R. 910 (S.Amdt. 183) failed on a vote of 50-50. EPA has taken action on a number of other air pollutant regulations, generally in response to court actions remanding previous rules. Remanded rules have included the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) and the Clean Air Mercury Rule—rules designed to control the long-range transport of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury from power plants through cap-and-trade programs. Other remanded rules included hazardous air pollutant (“MACT”) standards for boilers and cement kilns. EPA is addressing the court remands through new regulations, that have now been promulgated. Many in Congress view the new regulations as overly stringent. The House has passed three bills (H.R. 2250, H.R. 2401, and H.R. 2681) to delay or revoke the new standards and change the statutory requirements for their replacements. In addition to the power plant and MACT rules, EPA is also reviewing ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ozone, particulates, and other widespread air pollutants. These standards serve as EPA's definition of clean air, and drive a range of regulatory controls. The revised NAAQS also face opposition in Congress. As passed by the House, H.R. 2401 would amend the Clean Air Act to require EPA to consider feasibility and cost in setting NAAQS, and H.R. 1633 would prevent EPA from setting standards for ambient concentrations of rural dust.
Download or read book Reforming Air Pollution Regulation written by Richard A. Liroff and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Once and Future Clean Air Act written by Nicholas Bryner and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clean Air Act is one of Congress' greatest success stories--a major piece of legislation, passed in the context of environmental and public health crises, that has driven technological change through regulation that has dramatically improved air quality even in a prolonged period of economic growth. However, in the context of climate change, despite many efforts since the 1990s, the Clean Air Act has not proven to be a successful legislative tool, due to complex obstacles in the statutory language and a trend in Supreme Court jurisprudence--leading up to and including the June 2022 decision in West Virginia v. EPA--that is skeptical of administrative agency authority.Then, in August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) broke through the congressional logjam. The IRA is the most significant piece of climate legislation in U.S. history, with a commitment of $369 billion in spending on energy security and climate change programs over the next decade. Research groups have estimated that the Act will result in major reductions in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions--nearly 40 percent below 2005 levels. The IRA is spending bill, not a regulatory one, reflecting a highly constrained legislative environment in which filibuster rules and partisan intransigence mean that policy-by-spending is the only feasible option, not only for environmental issues but a broad range of social programs and priorities. Yet the IRA--despite these characteristics and the legislative and judicial context--will have important regulatory consequences.The Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) statutory authority to set strict standards that are, in part, based on a determination of what clean technologies are already available--through the “adequately demonstrated” standard in Section 111 and other requirements to balance environmental benefits with cost and/or technological feasibility. As the IRA works to lower costs and increase the market share of clean energy technologies, EPA will, by the end of the 2020s, be able to promulgate stronger technology-based standards--both more stringent in nature and more legally secure--than would otherwise be the case. Despite the limitations of spending policy, the IRA can play an important role in bringing about an effective energy transition, allowing the EPA to return to the original idea of “technology forcing” in the Clean Air Act and consolidate, through prescriptive regulation, the technological advances ushered in by federal spending programs.
Download or read book Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations: Current Knowledge, Future Needs discusses the need for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement a new method for estimating the amount of ammonia, nitrous oxide, methane, and other pollutants emitted from livestock and poultry farms, and for determining how these emissions are dispersed in the atmosphere. The committee calls for the EPA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to establish a joint council to coordinate and oversee short - and long-term research to estimate emissions from animal feeding operations accurately and to develop mitigation strategies. Their recommendation was for the joint council to focus its efforts first on those pollutants that pose the greatest risk to the environment and public health.
Download or read book Identification of Nonattainment Classification and Deadlines for Submission of State Implementation Plan Provisions Etc Us Environmental Protection Agency Regulation 2018 written by Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identification of Nonattainment Classification and Deadlines for Submission of State Implementation Plan Provisions, etc. (US Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (EPA) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Identification of Nonattainment Classification and Deadlines for Submission of State Implementation Plan Provisions, etc. (US Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (EPA) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 On January 4, 2013, in Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) v. EPA, the D.C. Circuit Court remanded to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the "Final Clean Air Fine Particle Implementation Rule" (April 25, 2007) (the "2007 PM 2.5 Implementation Rule") and the "Implementation of the New Source Review (NSR) Program for Particulate Matter Less than 2.5 Micrometers (PM 2.5)" final rule (May 16, 2008) (the "2008 PM 2.5 NSR Rule"). The Court found that the EPA erred in implementing the 1997 PM 2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) pursuant solely to the general implementation provisions of subpart 1 of Part D of Title I of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act), without also considering the particulate matter-specific provisions of subpart 4 of Part D. The Court's ruling remanded the rules to the EPA to address implementation of the 1997 PM 2.5 NAAQS under subpart 4. This final rulemaking identifies the classification under subpart 4 for areas currently designated nonattainment for the 1997 and/or 2006 PM 2.5 standards, the deadlines for states to submit attainment-related and nonattainment new source review (NNSR) state implementation plan (SIP) elements required for these areas pursuant to subpart 4, and the EPA guidance that is currently available regarding subpart 4 requirements. The final deadlines for 1997 and 2006 PM 2.5 NAAQS attainment-related SIP submissions and NNSR requirements for nonattainment areas would replace previous deadlines that were set solely pursuant to subpart 1. Specifically, the EPA is identifying the initial classification of current 1997 and/or 2006 PM 2.5 NAAQS nonattainment areas as "Moderate," and the EPA is setting a deadline of December 31, 2014, for submission of remaining required SIP submissions for these areas, pursuant to and considering the application of subpart 4. This rulemaking affects 1997 and 2006 PM 2.5 NAAQS nonattainment areas. After the careful consideration of the comments received on the proposal, the EPA is planning to finalize the rule as it was proposed. As part of the final rulemaking, the EPA is also updating 40 CFR part 81, "Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes" for the 1997 and 2006 PM 2.5 NAAQS nonattainment areas. This book contains: - The complete text of the Identification of Nonattainment Classification and Deadlines for Submission of State Implementation Plan Provisions, etc. (US Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (EPA) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
Download or read book Air Quality Management in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing the nation's air quality is a complex undertaking, involving tens of thousands of people in regulating thousands of pollution sources. The authors identify what has worked and what has not, and they offer wide-ranging recommendations for setting future priorities, making difficult choices, and increasing innovation. This new book explores how to better integrate scientific advances and new technologies into the air quality management system. The volume reviews the three-decade history of governmental efforts toward cleaner air, discussing how air quality standards are set and results measured, the design and implementation of control strategies, regulatory processes and procedures, special issues with mobile pollution sources, and more. The book looks at efforts to spur social and behavioral changes that affect air quality, the effectiveness of market-based instruments for air quality regulation, and many other aspects of the issue. Rich in technical detail, this book will be of interest to all those engaged in air quality management: scientists, engineers, industrial managers, law makers, regulators, health officials, clean-air advocates, and concerned citizens.
Download or read book A Retrospective Study of EPA s Air Toxics Program Under the Revised Section 112 Requirements of the Clean Air Act written by Arthur G. Fraas and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was required to establish standards limiting air toxics emissions from industrial plants. This paper examines the effect of five of the largest cost rules issued by EPA in the initial round of air toxics rulemaking over the 1995 to 2000 period. Our estimates suggest that plants in the printing and publishing and pulp and paper industries realized important reductions in their air toxics emissions in the period between publication of the final rule and the effective date for compliance with the rule -- although the reduction in air toxics emissions by pulp and paper mills falls short of EPA's ex ante projections. However, our estimates suggest that plants in the other three industries -- petroleum refining, pharmaceutical, and wood furniture -- achieved little or no additional reduction in air toxics emissions over the compliance period in response to EPA's air toxics rules. Finally, the paper explores steps that EPA should take in setting up future retrospective analyses.
Download or read book EPA BG written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
