On December 16, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its widely anticipated final report on the impacts to drinking water sources from hydraulic fracturing. In its final report, the EPA backed away from its earlier conclusion that fracking has not caused “widespread, systemic” impacts to drinking water, instead concluding that fracking activities can impact
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EPA Proposes Rule to Ease Barriers in Renewable Fuel Standard Program
By Megan McLean on
Posted in Biofuel, Biogas, and Fuel Alternatives, EPA
On November 16, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the proposed Renewables Enhancement and Support Growth Rule, which proposes changes to EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program and other renewable fuel regulations designed to encourage market growth of ethanol and renewable fuels in the U.S. and provide
EPA Addresses Aggregation Concerns with Clean Air Act Exemption
By Phillip Bower on
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Under EPA’s revised Regional Consistency regulations (codified in 40 C.F.R. Part 56) , sources located in different parts of the country may be subject to a different “single source” aggregation test or other Clean Air Act policies based on decisions of the federal courts with local jurisdiction.