Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $115 million in grant funding for making four to 10 awards in each of EPA's 10 regions to eligible applicants. EPA is soliciting applications nationwide for projects “that significantly reduce diesel emissions and EPA is seeking cost-effective diesel emission reduction projects that maximize health benefits, reduce DERA enables EPA to offer funding to accelerate the upgrade and turnover of legacy diesel fleets.

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA), about 28 percent of our national We recently blogged about how the new administration in Washington is attempting to scrap an EPA regulation Further, the Act allows other states to adopt California’s standards after EPA issued a waiver for them However, as we noted above, on Feb. 14, EPA sent the approved waiver to Congress for review under the If it does so, EPA may not grant a request for a substantially similar waiver in the future.  

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes a new National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) The EPA designates areas as meeting ("attainment") or not meeting ("non-attainment") the new NAAQS. known as SIPs and are developed by state and local air quality management agencies and submitted to EPA In this case, the updated coke oven regulations promulgated by EPA necessitated these revisions.

Department of Justice (DOJ), EPA, ACHD, and U.S. Steel that addressed waning compliance. As for EPA’s role, ACHD explained: “To enhance the Health Department’s enforcement efforts, ACHD has actively engaged the EPA over the course of the last nine months. The EPA brings an expanded level of federal expertise, as well as additional enforcement capacity that will support stronger action by utilizing the Department of Justice and EPA’s capacity to enact more

spate of emissions violations and compliance struggles that led to a joint enforcement action from EPA The company was also required to submit to the EPA and ACHD written procedures detailing how it will studies, those contractors were required to submit detailed plans for conducting those studies - and EPA Steel also needed to hire a third-party observer – trained and certified in accordance with EPA Method Steel to undergo self-audits every 12 months and submit for approval plans to EPA and ACHD detailing

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) finalization of a proposed rule that would have imposed a fee We blogged about that rule again in November, when EPA finally approved the fee itself. According to the Associated Press, EPA predicted that the rule would have reduced the industry’s emissions Congressional Review Act, not only is the old rule imposing a waste methane emission fee invalidated, but EPA

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA” issued to allow California to impose its own emission standards ’s disapproval of the waiver would have precluded California from imposing standards different than EPA California standards (which Pennsylvania has adopted in part) will stand, if only for the time being – EPA

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made to sources of hazardous air pollutants (or HAPS) to apply EPA is imposing these limits because in 2020 a federal Court of Appeals determined that section 112(d )(6) of the Act requires EPA to set limits for all  HAPs listed by EPA under section 112 of the Clean Indeed, EPA itself “acknowledge[d] that there are uncertainties because of the limited data.”   sufficiency of the data that EPA used to promulgate the new HAP emission limits for coke ovens.

In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have a one-hour concentration standard Currently, EPA requires that the annual average concentration for fine particulate matter is less than Over the past few days, daily concentrations at monitors in Liberty and Avalon exceeded EPA’s daily standard eight-days-per-year clause in the daily standard mean these “exceedances” of the limit might still comply with the EPA #airpollution #hydrogensulfide #fineparticulatematter #AlleghenyCountyHealthDepartment #DEP #ACHD #EPA

July 10, 2025: EPA approves U.S. Steel’s proposed written procedure. April 18, 2023: EPA provides U.S. “All retroactive reports were submitted to EPA and DEP and approved on December 19, 2024. All reports required by EPA and DEP have been submitted as required,” according to U.S. This was necessary because both the EPA and U.S.