Legal Planet
APRIL 12, 2024
’s delegation of federal Clean Air Act (CAA) authority for California to adopt regulations limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles and mandating the state’s steady transition from sales of conventional cars and light trucks to electric vehicles. EPA decision.)
Environmental News Bits
APRIL 24, 2023
Hatfield’s Ferry Power Station, a Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant, stopped producing electricity in 2013. Clean Air Act. But the facility’s legacy of smog pollution continued long after … Continue reading How the Clean Air Act lets closed coal plants keep polluting for years
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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 5, 2023
EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Ohio and some other states argue that the waiver unconstitutionally gives California more power to regulate than it gives them. Q: Hi, Sean.
Legal Planet
MAY 11, 2023
Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. For weeks, we’ve seen headlines about “Biden going big on regulating power plants” and “Biden’s aggressive new rule for power plants” as if it were simply a White House strategy.
Law and Environment
JUNE 14, 2022
The Clean Air Act generally prohibits a state from adopting its own motor vehicle emission standards. In 2013, EPA granted California a CAA waiver to regulate vehicle emission GHGs and establish a ZEV program. currently electing to do so.
The Energy Law Blog
JULY 23, 2013
In the recent ruling, the Third Circuit held that it was reasonable for EPA to interpret Section 126(b) to be an “independent mechanism for enforcing interstate pollution control,” thereby giving EPA authority to directly regulate a specific source in an upwind state. July 12, 2013) (pdf). See GenOn REMA, LLC v. 12-1022, slip op.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
I recently sat down virtually with one of UCS’s top EV experts, David Reichmuth , a senior engineer in the organization’s Clean Transportation Program, to get a better idea of EVs’ near- and long-term prospects. What is happening in California, and how quickly could that be replicated in other states?
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