As Concerns Mount, Environmentalists Seek To Raise Carbon 'Cost' Estimate
Environmentalists are launching an effort they hope will pressure the Obama administration to raise its default estimate of the social cost of carbon (SCC), believing it will strengthen the case for strict greenhouse gas (GHG) rules and other emission controls just as concerns about irreversible climate change due to the emissions are mounting.
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DOI Fracking Plan Wins Bipartisan Support Despite Advocates' Criticisms
Key lawmakers from both parties are offering initial support for the Interior Department's (DOI) proposed rule governing hydraulic fracturing operations on federal lands, though industry, environmentalists and many Republicans offered competing criticisms over the plan that will likely set the tone for policies EPA and other agencies are crafting.
EPA Targets CRT Concerns
In a bid to resolve concerns from states and others about cathode ray tube (CRT) recycling, EPA will host a May 30 webinar “to gather information about concerns that stakeholders have” on the issue.
>> MoreDemocrats Try Again On McCarthy Vote, Court Weighs NSR Enforcement Deadlines
Senate Democrats will try for a second time in as many weeks to send to the Senate floor President Obama's nomination of Gina McCarthy to serve as EPA administrator. A federal appellate court is slated to hear oral arguments on how long EPA has to bring enforcement actions for alleged violations of its new source review rules.
>> MoreArmy Elevates Perchlorate Standards Dispute At Texas Site To EPA Chief
The Army is elevating a dispute with EPA over perchlorate cleanup levels to the agency's acting administrator, after having failed to reach agreement at the regional level on the appropriate cleanup level for a Texas site in the absence of federal drinking water standards.
Obama Requires Agencies To Revise Rules To Speed Infrastructure Permits
President Obama is ordering an interagency task force he created last year to craft measures for “modernizing” environmental review and permitting requirements for water, transportation, energy and other infrastructure projects to significantly curb “aggregate” approval times, an approach that falls short of the fixed deadlines Congress is seeking.
EPA Aims To Improve Emissions Data For Potential Drilling GHG, Air Rules
EPA is outlining a comprehensive strategy to implement by September 2014 a plan for significantly improving its method for estimating emissions from the oil and natural gas sector, which could help resolve uncertainty over data that the agency would use for any future greenhouse gas (GHG) or conventional air rules for drilling operations.
API Urges EPA To Narrow Scope Of Drilling Equipment Covered By NSPS
State Regulators Call For New Approach To Regulating 'Waste' Medication
State hazardous waste officials are urging EPA to provide a new conditional approach to managing post-manufacturing pharmaceutical waste that would bypass traditional hazardous waste regulations but still prevent a much wider array of drugs from entering the environment through current agency rules.
States, Industry Urge EPA To Scrap Rule Ending Air Plan SSM Exemptions
Advisors Tag Coalbed Methane ELG As Sole Rule For Novel SAB Review
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Senate Bill Aims To Cut Foreign Fuels From RFS
A bipartisan duo of senators has introduced a bill that aims to kill demand for foreign biofuels to help meet EPA's renewable fuel standard (RFS) production targets, with the legislation aiming for overall reductions in . . .
NERC Says EPA Rules Will Not Harm Summer Grid Reliability
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) of electrical grid operators concludes in a new report that EPA's suite of power sector regulations will not hamper grid reliability during the summer, which could help the . . .
5th Circuit Rejects Climate Tort Suit
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has dismissed a novel climate change tort suit seeking damages from oil and other energy companies' greenhouse gases (GHGs) that plaintiffs claim . . .
House Energy Panel Approves Grid Reliability Bill
The House Energy & Commerce Committee has approved by voice vote a bill to shield utilities from enforcement for violations of EPA rules that occur while plants operate under Department of Energy (DOE) “must run” . . .