Amoco Oil Co. v. Environmental Protection Agency: Common Law Standards Limit Agency Rulemaking

California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board Staff Report: Initial Statement of Reasons for Proposed Rulemaking, Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of Regulations to Control Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Motor Vehicles

State of California California Environmental Protection Agency AIR RESOURCES BOARD Supplement to the Final Statement of Reasons for Rulemaking ADOPTION OF THE AIRBORNE TOXIC CONTROL MEASURE TO REDUCE FORMALDEHYDE EMISSIONS FROM COMPOSITE WOOD PRODUCTS

Fifteen documents are incorporated by reference in the airborne toxic control measure to reduce formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products. Section 93120.10 lists the fifteen documents which are incorporated by reference. Due to the length and volume of these documents, publishing them in the California Code of Regulations would be cumbersome, unduly expensive and otherwise impractical...

Establishing policy relevant background (PRB) ozone concentrations in the United States.

Policy Relevant Background (PRB) ozone concentrations are defined by the United States (U.S.) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as those concentrations that would occur in the U.S. in the absence of anthropogenic emissions in continental North America (i.e., the U.S, Canada, and Mexico). Estimates of PRB ozone have had an important role historically in the EPA's human health and welfare ris...

Tradable Standards for Clean Air Act Carbon Policy

EPA is in the process of regulating U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions using its powers under the Clean Air Act. The likely next phase of this regulatory program is performance standards under Section 111 of the act for coal plants and petroleum refineries, which the agency has committed to finalize by the end of 2012. Section 111 appears to allow use of flexible, market-based regulatory tools...

EPA’s Responses to Public Comments on EPA’s National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units