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- Cleaning Up Midwest Fine Particulate Pollution- Reliance on CAIR Misplaced by Ohio Environmental Law Blog on Nov 11, 2009
A new report regarding fine particulate pollution in the Midwest shows that achieving compliance with federal air quality standards is linked to U.S. EPA's fix for the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). The Lake Michigan Air Direc...
- Growing Wave of Climate Change Tort Suits Create Uncertainty by Ohio Environmental Law Blog on Nov 5, 2009
Two federal appeal courts (Fifth and Second Circuits) have issued decisions that will allow lawsuits to proceed that assert common law tort claims based on business contribution to climate change. Comer v. Murphy Oil USA Inc. is the second deci...
- Expert Environmental Traders Discuss Climate Bills by Ohio Environmental Law Blog on Oct 22, 2009
The past two days I have been in Houston at the Environmental Markets Association (EMA) fall conference. If you are not familiar with the EMA, it is an organization that supports the use of market-based solutions to environmental issues.&n...
- Proposed settlement in Akron CSO litigation by Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog on Oct 16, 2009
The City of Akron and the U.S. EPA reached a tentative agreement on the combined sewer overflow lawsuit brought by the EPA. Under the terms of the proposed settlement, the City will build additional sewer separation projects, upgrade its wastewater..
- Federal Tax Incentive For Environmental Clean Ups Provides Advantages Through End of 2009 by Ohio Environmental Law Blog on Oct 15, 2009
Any business spending money on an environmental investigation or on clean up at property they own examine closely a federal tax incentive which is set to expire December 31, 2009. The incentive allows environmental clean up costs to b...
- EPA Begins Process of Determining BACT for CO2 by Ohio Environmental Law Blog on Oct 13, 2009
U.S. EPA has initiated the process for determining what controls it will require should it finalize its proposal to regulate large industrial sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs). As discussed in a prior post, the first phase of the program...
- Greater Cleveland declared in nonattainment for particulate pollution by Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog on Oct 9, 2009
Yesterday, the U.S. EPA announced that six Greater Cleveland counties fail to meet 2006 federal standards for fine particle pollution (PM2.5), making official the designation made in December 2008. Ohio must develop a plan for bringing Cuyahoga, Lake...
