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Catch 22 at the Supreme Court

Legal Planet

In 2011, in AEP v. CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. 410 (2011). In making that delegation, we explained, Congress knew well what it was doing.

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Michigan’s ‘Very Big Opportunity’ in Infrastructure Windfall

Circle of Blue

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, approved by Congress and signed by President Biden last November, provides roughly $50 billion over five years for water and sewer systems, the largest federal infusion in the sector in a half century. Congress established the Clean Water SRF in 1987. The culture change came just in time.

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

In June 2021, EPA published a proposed rule under TSCA Section 8(a)(7) that the Agency will use to collect information on a one-time basis from manufacturers (including importers) of PFAS in any year since 2011.[[N: EPA sought the following categories of information: (1) types of applications or processes that employ 1-BP (e.g.,

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. She also was persuaded that Congress had ratified the lower appellate court decisions holding that there was a narrower scope of review. and non-U.S.

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Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sector: A Cap-and-Invest Approach

Vermont Law

This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate, a multi-school online forum run by student editors from the nation’s leading environmental law reviews. . The report breaks down these investments into four categories. Ramseur, The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Lessons Learned and Issues for Congress.

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The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

Law §§ 35-0105, 37-0115.]]. ” The Fifth Circuit concluded that the consideration of costs was not required for the prohibition on products containing the other four phthalates because Congress had not added a “reasonable” qualifier to that standard. The Senate passed the PFAS Act in the 116th Congress ( S.

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Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

PA Environment Daily

He created the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission in 2011. Corbett, most simply created the appearance of taking a look at all the issues surrounding shale gas operations, including health.