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EPA Lowers Cellulosic Volume in Final ’11 Renewable Fuel Standards
EPA Finalizes 2011 Renewable Fuel Standards WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the 2011 percentage standards for the four categories of fuel under the agency’s renewable fuel standard program, known as RFS2. The Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) amended the Clean Air Act to greatly increase the total required volume of [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Senators Kit Bond and Claire McCaskill worry that proposed federal regulations on emissions from boilers, many of which being used in “green energy” projects, could lead “to the loss of potentially thousands of high-paying jobs.” Both senators endorsed a protest letter drafted by Senators Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Mary Landrieu, [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Projects generating power and heat using renewable energy sources are on hold awaiting a final ruling on emissions standards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA started a firestorm this spring when it classified wood used in energy generation, often called woody biomass, the same as it classified coal. According [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A major Kansas City-area pesticide producer is set to spend more than $100,000 to satisfy federal allegations of Clean Air Act violations. Bayer CropScience agreed to pay a $37,790 civil penalty to settle allegations that it failed to meet all the requirements of a federally mandated risk management plan, the U.S. [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri timber producers and farmers, stung by the downturn in the housing industry, thought they could see light at the end of the tunnel with new advances in technology, and an emphasis in renewable energy. Now it turns out that light might be a train. [...]
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By REBECCA TOWNSEND Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The state may be monitoring fewer air pollutants in a bid to save money, a Missouri Department of Natural Resources official told the Air Conservation Commission at its monthly meeting Thursday. A network of 56 monitoring stations around the state test for several different air [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri’s U.S. Senate delegation will take opposite sides of a divisive vote Thursday to determine the federal government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases. At issue is a disapproval resolution that may be added to the Interior and Environment Appropriations bill that says the U.S. Environmental [...]
Continue reading …First new SO2 standard in 40 years will improve air quality for millions WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a final new health standard for sulfur dioxide (SO2). This one-hour health standard will protect millions of Americans from short-term exposure to SO2, which is primarily emitted from power plants and other [...]
Continue reading …U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7 901 N. Fifth St., Kansas City, KS 66101 Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Nine Tribal Nations Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Kansas City, Kan., May 10, 2010) – The owner and operator of a corn ethanol production facility in Holt County, Mo., has agreed to pay a $79,367 civil [...]
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