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Environmental Protection Agency Publishes Interstate Air Pollution Rule for Power Plants
Posted on 22 Sep 2011 by Dustin T Till

By Dustin Till, Associate, Marten Law Group PLLC "The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published a new rule, Federal Implementation Plans: Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone and Correction of SIP Approvals, 76 FR... Read More

Tags: Cross-State Air Pollution Rule , power plants , Marten Law , nitrogen oxides , sulfur dioxide , Dustin Till , air pollution , CAIR , EPA , fossil fuels , energy , CSAPR

Fulbright & Jaworski LLP: President Obama Withdraws Proposal to Lower the Ozone NAAQS
Posted on 6 Sep 2011 by Norton Rose Fulbright

By Bob Greenslade and Patricia Finn Braddock On September 2, 2011, President Obama directed Lisa Jackson, the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), to withdraw the agency's proposal to lower the primary... Read More

Tags: NAAQS , Fulbright and Jaworski , Environmental Protection Agency , Obama , emissions , nitrogen oxides , volatile organic compound , national ambient air quality standard , ozone , EPA

Troutman Sanders LLP: EPA Proposes New Short-Term Secondary NOx and SOx Air Standards But Rejects Potentially Stricter New Approach to Determining Standards
Posted on 5 Aug 2011 by Troutman Sanders

To the dismay of environmental groups, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") on July 13 declined to adopt a long-anticipated new method of setting a combined secondary national ambient air quality standard ("NAAQS") for... Read More

Tags: NAAQS , Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee , Environmental Protection Agency , nitrogen oxides , environmental groups , air pollution , national ambient air quality standard , pollutants , EPA , sulfur oxides , energy