Monday, May 13, 2024

Proposed rule published on April 13 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a five page proposed rule on April 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units.

More than half of the Agency's employees are engineers, scientists and protection specialists. The Climate Reality Project, a global climate activist organization, accused Agency leadership in the last five years of undermining its main mission.

Notices are required documents detailing rules and regulations being proposed by each federal department. This allows the public to see what issues legislators and federal departments are focusing on.

Any person or organization can comment on the proposed rules. Departments and agencies must then address “significant issues raised in comments and discuss any changes made,” the Federal Register says.

Notices published by the Environmental Protection Agency on April 13

Title
Hazardous Waste Technical Corrections and Clarifications Rule
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Delaware; Amendments to the Handling, Storage, and Disposal of Volatile Organic Compounds Emissions; Automobile and Light-Duty Truck Coating Operations; Paper Coating; Coating of Flat Wood Paneling; Graphic Art Systems; and Industrial Cleaning Solvents
Regulation of Oil-Bearing Hazardous Secondary Materials From the Petroleum Refining Industry Processed in a Gasification System To Produce Synthesis Gas; Final Determination To Deny Administrative Petition
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; New Mexico; Albuquerque/Bernalillo County: Infrastructure and Interstate Transport Requirements for the 1997 and 2008 Ozone and the 1997 and 2006 PM2.5
Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units
Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Science Advisory Board Ecological Processes and Effects Committee
Environmental Impacts Statements; Notice of Availability
Access by EPA Contractors to Confidential Business Information Related to the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program