Dec 11, 2024 · On March 15, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final Good Neighbor Plan, which, when implemented, will secure significant reductions in ozone-forming emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO X) from power plants and certain industrial facilities.

Mar 15, 2023 · The Good Neighbor Plan announced today will ensure that 23 states meet the Clean Air Act’s “Good Neighbor” requirements. The rule will reduce pollution that significantly contributes to problems downwind states face in attaining and maintaining EPA’s health-based air quality standard for ground-level ozone, known as the 2015 Ozone ...

Jun 27, 2024 · The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Good Neighbor Plan.”

Aug 6, 2024 · On March 15, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final Good Neighbor Plan, which ensures that 23 states fully resolve their Clean Air Act obligations under the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

Jun 27, 2024 · What is the ‘good neighbor’ rule? The EPA adopted the rule as a way to protect downwind states that receive unwanted air pollution from other states. Besides the potential health impacts from out-of-state pollution, many states face their own …

Jun 5, 2023 · In this rulemaking, the EPA is addressing good neighbor obligations for the more protective 2015 ozone NAAQS, and the Agency observes ongoing and persistent contribution from upwind states to ozone nonattainment and maintenance receptors in …

Apr 13, 2023 · On March 15, 2023, the EPA released the final Good Neighbor Plan Rule (the Plan), a rule requiring 23 states 1 to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) from electric generating units (EGUs) at power plants and certain industrial sources to help states downwind of those 23 states to obtain and maintain compliance with 2015 ground-level ozone ...

Dec 10, 2024 · The Good Neighbor Plan addressed 23 states' obligations to eliminate significant contribution to nonattainment or interference with maintenance of the 2015 ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS), pursuant to the “good neighbor” provision of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act).

Mar 28, 2023 · The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just finalized its Good Neighbor Plan this month and that means millions of people in downwind states will be protected from unhealthy smokestack pollution that blows across state lines.

Sep 29, 2023 · In this action, in response to court orders, the EPA is amending on an interim basis the Good Neighbor Plan, which the EPA developed by applying a uniform legal interpretation and common, nationwide analytical methods to address the requirements of CAA section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I) concerning interstate transport of pollution ( i.e., “good ...