One of the main advancements of the past half-century at coal-burning power plants has been the “scrubber,” a clean-air device that played a major role in ending the acid-rain crisis of the 1970s and that removes millions of tons a year of a pollutant blamed for respiratory disease. However, the Trump administration’s proposed rewrite of […]

On July 30, 2018 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of the 21 youth plaintiffs in the constitutional climate change lawsuit filed against the federal government, Juliana v. United States, according to an August 3, 2018 Forbes report. The plaintiffs allege that the United States government’s affirmative actions caused climate change, violated the […]

In late July 2018 President Donald Trump proposed gutting California’s unique ability to write greenhouse gas emissions limits for cars and trucks. Now California is firing its own heavy artillery. The state plans to force car makers to continue complying with Sacramento’s rules, even if Trump weakens those set in Washington according to an August […]

Smoke from wildfires clog the sky across the U.S. West. On August 20, 2018 they blotted out mountains and city skylines from Oregon to Colorado, delaying flights and forcing authorities to tell even healthy adults in the Seattle area to stay indoors according to an August 20, 2018 Chicago Tribune report via the Associated Press. […]

In order to determine whether equipment and processes that emit air pollutants are part of a major source for purposes of air permitting, companies must apply a three-factor test according to a July 16, 2018 report from Trinity Consultants. Emission units which meet all of the following criteria are aggregated: Belong to the same industrial […]