2008 Clean Air Act Pollution Control 
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
A couple years ago , I detailed how an industry designed to increase and sell devices tampering with pollution controls was trying to use the extremely small slice of its business targeted at racing as a Trojan horse to hinder EPA enforcement and let loose a bevy of tampering devices on the American public. 7522(a)(3) ).
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
It then tread water for a few years and began a steep decline in 2008, going from half of U.S. 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. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels.
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Law Columbia
MARCH 29, 2024
In 2008, Congress directed EPA to develop a rule to “require mandatory reporting of GHG emissions above appropriate thresholds in all sectors of the economy.” The SEC’s regime is an investor protection program, and nowhere in the SEC’s rule does a stated goal of pollution control or GHG emission reduction appear.
The Energy Law
AUGUST 21, 2012
Under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”), EPA sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards (“NAAQS”) but states determine the specific control strategies that the individual state will use to achieve NAAQS. In 2008, industry petitioners filed suit to force EPA to perform its nondiscretionary duty to act on the SIP revisions.
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
The Clean Air Act (CAA) regulates smog, setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and PM. NAAQS because of pollutants emitted from Midwestern power plants. The EPA then assumed that each polluter in the NO. were controlled by CAIR in order to control both ozone and PM.
Corp Watch
JUNE 7, 2023
The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding (2010) Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas (2008). Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010).
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. This legal battle has both a long history and enormous implications for California’s aggressive pollution control and climate change policies.
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