On March 26, 2019 Colorado Governor Jared Polis announced he was rescinding a request to the Environmental Protection Agency that would have given the state more time to come into compliance with ozone limits, according to an April 4, 2019 Denverite report. Ozone levels around the Denver metro area have long been over EPA’s accepted […]

Seven of the country’s 10 most air-polluted cities are in California, despite the state’s strict environmental laws, according to a new American Lung Association (ALA) study and reported April 24, 2019 in The Hill. Los Angeles ranked as the most smog-filled metro area in the ALA’s annual State of the Air report. The city has […]

On April 11, 2019 the Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee voted to recommend DEP move ahead with a proposed regulation to control volatile organic compound emissions, with a “co-benefit” of reducing methane emissions from existing oil and gas operations, according to a PA Environment Digest Blog report. Generally, the […]

Virginia regulators have voted to join a regional carbon cap-and-trade program, becoming the first Southern state to do so. The effort could lead to a 30 percent reduction in carbon emissions from the state’s largest power plants, according to an April 19th, 2019 Washington Post report. But there’s a hitch. Republican lawmakers put language into […]

On December 13, 2018 Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) posted proposed rules for cutting smog-forming compounds based on Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Control Technique Guidelines (CTGs) for the oil and natural gas industry that the Trump administration EPA has proposed to withdraw. As reported in the January 2019 MIRATECH Emissions Monitor, Pennsylvania’s proposal […]