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Good & Bad Environmental News From the U.S. Supreme Court

Legal Planet

Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. Near the end of his time in office in 2008, President George W. Last Friday, the justices granted review in Diamond Alternative Energy v.

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Challenge to California’s Hen Housing Laws

National Law Center

Proposition 2 is the original California ballot initiative, passed in 2008, imposing specific space requirements for pregnant sows, veal calves and laying hens. Under “Prop 2,” covered animals located in the state of California could not be prevented from lying down, standing up and fully extending its limbs or turning around freely.

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