National Law Center

AUGUST 11, 2022

The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: August 11, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. .

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Karl S. The law of regulatory cost benefit analysis just became even more incoherent under a ruling of the Western District of Louisiana enjoining implementation of President Biden’s executive order setting parameters to establish the social cost of carbon for use in regulatory analysis.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) represent a radical change in federal climate policy. And with divided government at the federal level, these laws may well be the last nationwide legislative actions on climate change for years.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 14, 2022

The Clean Air Act generally prohibits a state from adopting its own motor vehicle emission standards. On March 14, 2022, EPA rescinded its 2019 waiver withdrawal and established a new standard for revisiting approved waiver determinations.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. What does this mean for clean energy projects?

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

On the domestic front, the head of EPA managed to maneuver the Administration into endorsing federal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The Kyoto Protocol may have led to emission reductions in Europe, but there was never any real prospect that the Senate would ever ratify the agreement.

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Acoel

MAY 24, 2023

Posted May 24, 2023 by Tracy Hester In a jurisprudential pile-up, the Fifth Circuit has become the arena for two simultaneous legal battles that may shape the law of standing and realign federal environmental law. Wade in 2022. While all eyes are on the U.S. 8, the Texas abortion bounty statute. Supreme Court reversed Roe v.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Under the federal Clean Air Act, plaintiffs must send notices of intent to sue at least 60 days before filing a complaint in federal court. Shell must be held accountable under the law and take appropriate steps to prevent illegal pollution going forward.”

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

On January 26, PennEnvironment and Clean Air Council announced they will file in U.S. District Court on Monday a proposed consent decree in settlement of their federal Clean Air Act lawsuit against United States Steel Corporation. The agreement mandates that U.S. Most of the penalty money ($4.5 Steel spent $17.5

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A district court has ruled that federal law does not preempt an indirect source rule that targets emissions associated with warehouses in Southern California. The California Attorney General, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), and a group of environmental NGOs intervened in defense of Rule 2305. labor laws). [15]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. The Supreme Court clipped the agency’s wings in its 2022 West Virginia v. EPA decision, but it did not ground EPA.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

The EPA opened two Title VI investigations in April 2022, based on two complaints—one based on approvals for the Denka Performance Elastomer facility (“Denka”) in St. In October 2022, the EPA sent its initial findings, indicating that some of LDEQ and LDH’s practices may be in violation of Title VI. James Parish.

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ESA

JANUARY 18, 2022

She previously worked as the director of the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks from 2017 to 2020 and was an assistant professor of law at the University of Montana. 15, 2022, and IPBES will hold an online workshop for reviewers Jan. CNSF – FY 2022 Appropriations Conference Committee Statement (Nov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

I had a small glimpse into this work in early 2022 when his office reached out to me after reading a report I co-authored on the risk of chemical spills from storage tanks in Virginia. Among its provisions, the legislation will: Require consideration of cumulative impacts in permitting decisions under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2022

Going back to 1978 and through this month, Congress has acknowledged climate change in a total of 87 enactments, as shown by a database just posted by Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Image by JessicaRodriguezRivas pursuant to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Coupled with the Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan infrastructure law , the standards would accelerate a transition that is already underway. Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2022, installed wind and solar power more than tripled , according to American Clean Power. EPA Supreme Court decision in 2022.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Robert B. EPA as a decision depriving EPA of an important tool to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. First Court did not eliminate the Agency’s ability to require greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reductions under section 111 or any other section of the Clean Air Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In the United States, a 2022 study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin found that more than 50,000 lives per year would be saved by eliminating those emissions. The Bureau of Economic Analysis last year estimated that recreation economy was worth $564 billion in 2022, providing nearly 5 million jobs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1966, vehicles were responsible for nearly 60 percent of the 146 million tons of pollutants discharged into the air across the United States. At the end of 2022, there were more than 283 million. Will the law help transit agencies deal with their looming budget crises? In 1960, there were 61.6 That’s not healthy.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

Biden administration repeals definition of habitat under the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists hope new Maryland law will reduce nutrient pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. The Supreme Court will hear this case, which pertains to the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the definition of the Waters of the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The EPA also plans to issue a rule by the end of 2022 with strengthened emissions requirements for approximately 100 commercial sterilizer facilities across the country. EPA plans to issue a Clean Air Act rulemaking for commercial sterilizers later this year and for other chemical facilities soon, as well.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, he asserted, “Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. In his draft ruling, Alito conferred credibility and salience to British anti-abortion laws of the 17 th and 13 th centuries. Broader implications.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 11, 2021

Either way, the requirement to set NAAQS remains at the core of the Clean Air Act. EPA’s timeline for reconsidering the Trump decision provides that a proposed rule will be issued in the summer of 2022 and a final rule will be issued in the Spring of 2023. first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The Clean Air Council and the Environmental Integrity Project asked DEP to temporarily halt operations of the Shell Polymers Monaca plant in Beaver County until the company can demonstrate it can operate in compliance with pollution control laws. tons of NOx in a 12-month period).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2023

These include, for example, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program administered under the Clean Air Act and Underground Injection Control Program administered under the Safe Drinking Water Act, as well as the Internal Revenue Service’s § 45Q regulations.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. At the federal level, agricultural operations are exempt from laws intended to prevent pollution to water and to the air.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” The case ultimately wound up in the US Supreme Court, which, in its controversial West Virginia v.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Science and Engineering 2022 report. Research Policy: The House leadership unveiled the America COMPETES Act ( H.R. This broad innovation and competitiveness act includes measures reauthorizing the Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Scientific Community. United States. .

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

18 RiverWatch Video Report -- November 19 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available -- Judicial Update: The Law Of ‘Constitutional Standing’ Taking Shape in Pennsylvania - By Paul Bruder, Jr.,

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MGKF Law

JUNE 30, 2022

S. _ (2022). The major questions doctrine requires that a federal agency have “clear congressional authorization” when acting on issues of great “economic and political significance.” citing Utility Air Regulatory Group v. West Virginia v. EPA 597 U. ” Id. EPA , 573 U.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

In March 2022, the SEC proposed amendments to Regulations S-X that would both enhance and standardize public companies’ climate-related disclosures (“Climate-Related Disclosures”). Environmental Protection Agency , citation, 597 U.S. ­­­ _ (2022), National Federation of Independent Business v. Background. 4, 2023). [3]

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Seth Jaffe. The Clean Water Act – It’s routine for EPA to take more than 10 years to act on NPDES permit renewals. The Clean Air Act – The Supreme Court has ruled that it does not provide authority for EPA to address the defining issue of our time.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2023

Million Penalty, Settlement With Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Over Clean Air Act Violations Public Participation Opportunities/Calendar Of Events Grants & Awards PA Bulletin Public Notices Stories Invited - About PA Environment Digest Supporting Member PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers; PA Outdoor Writers Assn.;

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MGKF Law

JULY 6, 2023

In April 2022, the Director of EPA’s Fuel Compliance Center responded to Sinclair’s email, stating, in relevant part, that “the 2018 RINs [would] not be returned… ” Sinclair filed the petition for review of EPA’s April 2022 email.

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National Law Center

MARCH 17, 2022

20-1530 (2022), a lawsuit. The post Scope of EPA Authority Before the Supreme Court appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. The United States Supreme Court recently heard arguments in West Virginia v. Envt’l Protection Agency, No.

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