Clean Air Act Digest, 2.21.12

UPDATES Legislative Update: Long-Awaited Payroll Tax Cut Extension: A clean payroll tax cut extension was wrapped up last week, and the final legislation did not include any anti-environmental riders. This is a tremendous victory for the clean air community as this bill was considered a vehicle for clean air attacks, and the opposition attempted to [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 2.10.12

UPDATES Congressional Update: On Thursday morning, there was a hearing in the Subcommittee on Energy and Power on EPA’s recently-finalized Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. The witnesses invited by the Republican majority took the opportunity to attack these life-saving standards, but the reality is that the American public supports standards that will result in enormous [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 2.3.12

UPDATES Congressional Update: In a conference committee meeting February 2nd on the payroll tax bill, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) called for including H.R. 2250, the bill to block EPA’s standards to reduce mercury and other toxic air pollutants from industrial boilers. The House passed H.R. 2250 in October; similar legislation [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 1.27.12

UPDATES Congressional Update: The House and Senate were both back in session this week, and negotiations have begun on legislation to extend the payroll tax credit when the short-term extension passed in December expires at the end of February. On Wednesday, Rep. Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, reiterated that House [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 1.20.12

UPDATES Congressional Update: The House was back in session this week; the Senate will convene next week. As you’ll recall, before the holidays both chambers passed a temporary payroll tax cut extension bill through the end of February. For more information see Frances Beinecke’s Blog. In the midst of the negotiations at the end of [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 12.21.11

UPDATES Administration Update: Mercury and Air Toxics Rule After decades of industry-induced delay, the Environmental Protection Agency has issued limits on the toxic soup of emissions spewed from coal-fired power plants. The Mercury and Air Toxics rule unveiled by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is a critical update to the Clean Air Act that will reduce [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 12.16.11

UPDATES Administration: Next week we expect the Administration to announce life-saving standards that will curb mercury and other toxic air pollution from power plants. These new measures will save up to 17,000 lives every year and will prevent 11,000 heart attacks. This is a huge victory for the clean air community. Please take this opportunity [...]

Clean Air Act Digest 12.9.11

On Friday, December 2, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed changes to air toxic standards for boilers and incinerators that were issued in March 2011. According to EPA, the changes will maintain the rule’s public health benefits – significant reductions in toxic air pollutants, including mercury and soot – while easing the cost and difficulty of complying with the regulations.

Clean Air Act Digest, 11.4.11

UPDATES SENATE: Pro-Pollution Plan S. 1786: On Thursday, Senator Hatch introduced S. 1786, a pro-pollution plan that would block the EPA’s ability to clean-up life-threatening toxic air pollution. This bill is part of an extreme, ideological agenda that will cost lives. The bill included the REINS Act (S. 299), the bill also included a radical [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 10.21.11

UPDATES HOUSE: More rollbacks of the Clean Air Act: Late last week the House continued to undo public health protections by passing the “EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011″ (H.R. 2250), legislation that will rollback standards to limit mercury and other air toxics from boilers and incinerators. The bill forbids EPA from issuing final standards [...]

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