Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
From 1960 to 2005, coal use grew more or less steadily by 18 million tons per year. electricity to about one-fifth today. The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. electricity use hit a ceiling , and it has risen only slightly since then.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 1, 2022
EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. In short: We need to clean up the power sector as much as we can, as fast as we can, to have any chance at staving off the worst of climate impacts. And here, the Court has struck a devastating blow.
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Legal Planet
DECEMBER 6, 2021
When fully implemented, the Clean Power Plan was intended to cut carbon emissions 30% below the 2005 level by 2030. The reason why the plan has no further practical relevance is a rapid shift in the mix of sources for generating electricity. Between 2015 and 2019, the amount of electricity generated from coal dropped by a third.
Acoel
JUNE 29, 2022
EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. The 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) provided smaller but significant air quality improvements following its implementation in 2010.
Vermont Law
AUGUST 3, 2015
is a shift for this historically Clean Air Act-friendly Court. EPA) is one for the Clean Air Act (CAA) record books. Since the Clean Air Act was enacted in 1970, EPA has been directed to regulate the emission of toxic chemicals by coal and oil fired power plants but had neglected to do so.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 3, 2022
Once Congress passes protective laws like the Clean Air Act, agencies have generally had deference to implement those laws based on the latest scientific evidence of harms caused by pollutants and options to limit those harms. With this decision, the Court has instead hamstrung that authority.
Corp Watch
JANUARY 4, 2024
Oliver Schmidt had previously pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act and conspiracy to defraud the US government in August for his role in Dieselgate, where VW was found to have used hidden software to hide the fact that many of its cars weren’t meeting emissions standards. Volkswagen of America, Inc.
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