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Frustrated by EPA’s Delay on Air Quality, Environmental Groups Tell the Agency: “NOx it Off!”

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Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) is a very reactive, brown-hued gas commonly produced when fuels are burned at high temperature by motor vehicles, chemical plants, etc. Industries will often intentionally oxidize NOx to produce lacquers,...more

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Title V/Clean Air Act: Sierra Club Petition to Object Filed Addressing Lumber City, Georgia Wood Pellet Manufacturing Plant

The Georgia Interfaith Power & Light and the Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club (collectively, “Sierra Club”) filed a Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”)...more

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Title V/Clean Air Act: Petition to Object Filed Addressing Houston, Texas Refinery

The Environmental Integrity Project, Texas Environmental, Justice Advocacy Services, Caring for Pasadena Communities, and Sierra Club (collectively, “EIP”) submitted an August 19th Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”)...more

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Title V/Clean Air Act: Sierra Club Petition to Object Filed Addressing Hopewell, Virginia Chemical Manufacturing Facility

Five non-profit organizations filed a Clean Air Act Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to the AdvanSix Resins and Chemicals LLC (“AdvanSix”)...more

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Regional Haze/State Implementation Plans: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Sierra Club Enter into Consent Decree Providing...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Sierra Club entered into a July 12th Consent Decree (“CD”) addressing agency review of 32 states’ Clean Air Act State Implementation Plans (“SIP”) related to...more

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Title V/Clean Air Act: Sierra Club Petition to Object Filed Addressing Pinal County, Arizona, Generating Station

The Sierra Club filed a May 13th Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (“SRP”). ...more

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Title V/Clean Air Act: Sierra Club Petition to Object to Berkley County, South Carolina, Aluminum Reduction Minor Permit...

The Sierra Club and Environmental Integrity Project (collectively, “Sierra Club”) submitted a June 9th Clean Air Act Title V objection styled: Petition Requesting that the Administrator Object to the Minor Permit...more

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Cooling Water Intake Structure/Clean Water Act: Sierra Club Petition Before the U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Challenging...

The Sierra Club and Conservation Law Foundation (collectively “Sierra Club”) submitted a June 16th Petition for Review (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board...more

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Stationary Combustion Engines/New Source Performance Standards: Environmental Defense Fund and U.S. Environmental Protection...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published in the June 13th Federal Register a notice that it had entered into a Consent Decree with the Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund (collectively...more

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Sixth Circuit Ruling on Ohio’s Air Nuisance Rule

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On February 10, 2023, the Sixth Circuit issued an opinion in Sierra Club, et al. v. U.S. EPA, et al., (Case No. 21-3057). The case involved a petition for review filed by the Sierra Club, the Ohio Environmental Council, and...more

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Title VI of the Civil Rights Act/South Coast Air Quality Management District: Earthjustice Complaint Submitted to U.S....

Earthjustice submitted a March 6th Complaint under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VI”) addressing the South Coast Air Quality Management District in California (“SCAQMD”)....more

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Stationary Combustion Engines/New Source Performance Standards: Environmental Organizations File Citizen Suit Action Against U.S....

The Sierra Club and the Environmental Defense Fund (collectively, “Sierra Club”) filed a December 8th Clean Air Act citizen suit action against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) alleging a failure to...more

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Steam Electric Station/Rusk County, Texas: Sierra Club Notice of Intent of Sue U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Alleged...

The Sierra Club sent a Notice of Intent to file suit to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) for failure to undertake a nondiscretionary duty under the Clean Air Act....more

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Startup Shutdown Malfunction/Clean Air Act NSPS: Environmental Organizations Petition U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Seeking...

The Sierra Club and a number of other environmental organizations sent a September 13th document to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) titled: Petition for Rulemaking to Eliminate Startup,...more

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National Primary Drinking Water Regulation/Safe Drinking Water Act: Environmental Organizations D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals...

Several organizations filed a Petition for Review (“Petition”) in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) Safe Drinking...more

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Title V/Clean Air Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Grants Petition Objecting to Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Power Plant

The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a June 7th Order granting a Petition objecting to the issuance of a Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit (“Permit”) to the Colver Power...more

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Title V/Clean Air Act: Sierra Club Petition for Objection to Permit Revision for Pinal County, Arizona, Generating Station

The Sierra Club filed an objection to a Clean Air Act Title V Revised Operating Permit before the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) through a document styled: PETITION FOR OBJECTION...more

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Regional Haze/Sierra Club Notice of Intent to Sue: Alleged U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Failure to Make Statutory...

The Sierra Club submitted a February 7th letter to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) styled: Notice of Intent to File Suit Under the Clean Air Act for Failure to Make Statutory Completeness...more

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DOJ Doesn’t Know How to Declare Victory

According to Inside EPA (subscription required), the Department of Justice (and the Sierra Club) have opposed Ameren’s Missouri’s motion to allow it to close its Rush Island generating facility early, rather than install...more

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Project Emissions Accounting Rule/New Source Review: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denies Sierra Club Petition for...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator Michael S. Regan (“Administrator”) in an October 12th letter responded to a Petition for Reconsideration submitted by the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund,...more

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Biden EPA Decides to Keep a Trump EPA NSR Rule … For Now

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The Biden EPA just did something unexpected — it decided to keep a Trump EPA rule, at least for the time being. The rule, known as “project emissions accounting” under the “New Source Review” (NSR) air permitting program,...more

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Title V/Clean Air Act: Center for Biological Diversity Petition to Object to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Air...

The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) filed a Petition to Object (“Petition”) to Air Quality Permit No. 03069T36 for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill issued by the North Carolina Department of...more

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Texas Clean Water Act NPDES Permitting Program: Environmental Organizations Petition U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to...

The Sierra Club and 20 other environmental organizations (collectively, “Sierra Club”) submitted a September 23rd Petition to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) styled: Citizen Petition for...more

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Startup, Shutdown and Malfunction/State Implementation Plans: Sierra Club Judicial Complaint Alleges U.S. Environmental Protection...

The Sierra Club, Environmental Integrity Project, and Natural Resources Defense Council (collectively “Sierra Club”) filed a September 9th citizen suit Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief (“Complaint”) against the...more

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PSD/Air Enforcement: Federal Appellate Court (Eighth Circuit) Addresses Injunctive Relief Authority

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (“Eighth Circuit”) addressed in an August 20th Opinion whether a federal court had the authority to order injunctive relief for past violations of the Clean Air Act....more

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