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The Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act (Pub. L. 89–272) amended the 1963 Clean Air Act and set the first federal vehicle emissions standards, beginning with the 1968 models. These standards were reductions from 1963 emissions levels: 72% reduction for hydrocarbons , 56% reduction for carbon monoxide , and 100% reduction for crankcase ...
A Texas plastics company has agreed to pay nearly $3 million in civil penalties for violating the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Formosa Plastics Corp. also agreed to ...
Congress did not provide the EPA with much funding for this Act, allowing for state and local initiatives to expand without federal oversight. [22] [24] Federal powers are limited when states enter agreements with the EPA or act as the EPA's agent. Regulation involving underground storage tanks under RCRA encourage state level enforcement.
They also know that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 2011 majority opinion in American Electric Power Co., Inc. v. Connecticut held that the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency ...
The Clean Air Act is a federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. In June 2017, Pruitt announced that he would delay designating which areas met new National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone , [ 237 ] a byproduct of pollutants from burning fossil fuels that has been linked to asthma .
Section 202(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act requires the Administrator of the EPA to establish standards "applicable to the emission of any air pollutant from…new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, which in [her] judgment cause, or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare" (emphasis added). [3]
In 2017, the biggest pollutants included carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, hydrocarbons, lead, and particulate matter according to Theilmann in the U.S. Clean Air Act. [5] These pollutants harm the environment as well as the citizens living in these areas. The pollutants contribute to climate change and can result in acid rain. Citizens living in ...
Texas has always been a leader when it comes to developing the energy resources with which we have been blessed, which has increasingly—and rightfully—included renewables like wind and solar ...