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EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Are Critical—and Complex. Here’s What to Know, and What to Watch.

Union of Concerned Scientists

A multi-decade legal history, including four Supreme Court decisions, has led to unimpeachable clarity on this one point: EPA has a statutory obligation to regulate carbon emissions from power plants under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. So what follows from that obligation?

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Rare Earth Metal Theft by Catalytic Converter

Greenbuilding Law

Rare earth metals are not only used in automobile pollution control devices (and not just in the U.S. The National Insurance Crime Bureau, the public source for vehicle theft data reported to insurance companies, stopped tracking catalytic converter thefts in 2015. The pollution control devices have been required in the U.S.

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Starting with a Messy Slate: The Role of Environmental Law in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake

Vermont Law

Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and economic infrastructure. Deforestation, air and water pollution, and lack of sanitation systems have led to public health problems and resource scarcity.

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990. 16 of 22 counties) of the 2015 Base Case nonattainment counties are projected to be reduced by 1 ppb or more as a result of CAIR. Trisko (BA, NYU, 1972; JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 1977) is an attorney in private practice.

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The Problems with the SCOTUS ‘Good Neighbor’ Arguments

Legal Planet

Herzog (former Emmett/Frankel Fellow at UCLA School of Law 2012-2016) and Sean H. When EPA strengthened the national ozone standard in 2015 based upon updated scientific understanding of ozone’s health harms, it triggered States’ obligation to develop Good Neighbor plans. The Rule is already working to reduce dangerous smog.

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Third District Addresses Significant CEQA Issues In Mixed Decision On Placer County’s EIR For Specific Plan/Rezoning Allowing Development of Martis Valley Timberlands

CEQA Developments

Following release of an October 2015 draft and May 2016 final EIR, the County’s Planning Commission recommended denial, but the Board of Supervisors thereafter approved the specific plan, and the immediate rezoning of the 662-acre portion of the West Parcel out of the TPZ, by 4-1 vote. California Department of Fish and Wildlife (2015) 62 Cal.4th

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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

Circle of Blue

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law.

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