Regulatory Impact Analysis of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter
Regulatory Impact Analysis of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter

Author: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Publisher:

Published: 2013-08

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781289325657

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.

Tx187.086 Air Quality State Implementation Plans - Approval and Promulgation - State of Texas - Regional Haze and Interstate Visibility Transport (Us Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (Epa) (2018 Edition)
Tx187.086 Air Quality State Implementation Plans - Approval and Promulgation - State of Texas - Regional Haze and Interstate Visibility Transport (Us Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (Epa) (2018 Edition)

Author: Law Library

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781727059106

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TX187.086 Air Quality State Implementation Plans - Approval and Promulgation - State of Texas - Regional Haze and Interstate Visibility Transport (US Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (EPA) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the TX187.086 Air Quality State Implementation Plans - Approval and Promulgation - State of Texas - Regional Haze and Interstate Visibility Transport (US Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (EPA) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 Pursuant to the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA or Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing a partial approval of the 2009 Texas Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (SIP) submission and a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) for Texas to address certain outstanding requirements. Specifically, the EPA is finalizing determinations regarding best available retrofit technology (BART) for electric generating units (EGUs) in the State of Texas. To address the BART requirement for sulfur dioxide (SO 2), the EPA is finalizing an alternative to BART that consists of an intrastate trading program addressing the SO 2 emissions from certain EGUs. To address the BART requirement for oxides of nitrogen (NO X), we are finalizing our proposed determination that Texas' participation in the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule's (CSAPR) trading program for ozone-season NO X qualifies as an alternative to BART. We are approving Texas' determination that its EGUs are not subject to BART for particulate matter (PM). Finally, we are disapproving portions of several SIP revisions submitted to satisfy the CAA requirement to address interstate visibility transport for six national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS): 1997 8-hour ozone, 1997 fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) (annual and 24-hour), 2006 PM 2.5 (24-hour), 2008 8-hour ozone, 2010 1-hour nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) and 2010 1-hour SO 2. We are finding that the BART alternatives to address SO 2 and NO X BART at Texas' EGUs meet the interstate visibility transport requirements for these NAAQS. This book contains: - The complete text of the TX187.086 Air Quality State Implementation Plans - Approval and Promulgation - State of Texas - Regional Haze and Interstate Visibility Transport (US Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (EPA) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

Valuing Climate Damages
Valuing Climate Damages

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0309454204

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The social cost of carbon (SC-CO2) is an economic metric intended to provide a comprehensive estimate of the net damages - that is, the monetized value of the net impacts, both negative and positive - from the global climate change that results from a small (1-metric ton) increase in carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions. Under Executive Orders regarding regulatory impact analysis and as required by a court ruling, the U.S. government has since 2008 used estimates of the SC-CO2 in federal rulemakings to value the costs and benefits associated with changes in CO2 emissions. In 2010, the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (IWG) developed a methodology for estimating the SC-CO2 across a range of assumptions about future socioeconomic and physical earth systems. Valuing Climate Changes examines potential approaches, along with their relative merits and challenges, for a comprehensive update to the current methodology. This publication also recommends near- and longer-term research priorities to ensure that the SC- CO2 estimates reflect the best available science.