Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Californias Advanced Clean Car II (ACCII) regulations are set to go into effect starting with model year 2026 vehicles. However, there is also a long history of the auto industry resisting change by claiming that regulations are an existential threat to their business. What is the actual ZEV sales requirement?

2026

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

In other words, if a regulation mentions electric vehicles, its probably on the target list. The two most significant rules under threat are the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACCII) regulation and the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule. In the U.S., But the impact of these rules are clearly evident on the lot.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2025

This long struggle to get cleaner air in California is one of necessity; pollution from Californias millions of cars and trucks, combined with its unique climate and geography have led to the state having consistently the worst air pollution in the nation.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Guterres said the “sun is rising on a clean energy age,” as 91% of new renewable power projects were cheaper than fossil fuels, according to a new IRENA report. EPA is renouncing its ability to even regulate greenhouse gases as a threat to human health. Dangerous Finding While the world affirms the right to a sustainable climate, U.S.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

Distribution Costs Up "I just want to convey to everyone that, while we're talking about that little slice, which is capacity, in 2024, all of the electric utilities with the exception of PPL we're in for distribution rate increases, we expect that all of them will also be in again in 2026. “We And so all of these costs are going up.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Data Centers Impacts On Electricity Grid -- PJM Interconnection Reliability Initiative Attracts 94 Applications For 26.6

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

In addition to all the harms that have already happened, now President Trumps skinny budget for fiscal year 2026 proposes cutting EPA funding by a massive 54.5%, or $4.2 The EPAs Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) leads a large share of the regulatory work of EPA, required by the Clean Air Act statute.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

Suspended Challenges to Biden Administration Actions and Concerns About Purgatory Activity in most pending challenges to the Biden administrations climate regulations and actions was temporarily suspended as Trump agency officials began to implement White House directives to review those actions for potential revocation.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Some of Trump’s most ardent political backers, like Elon Musk, depend on existing federal subsidies (expanded under the Inflation Reduction Act) for EVs assembled in North America and for EV charging infrastructure, and investors in crypto currencies who supported Trump’s campaign need plenty of new power-hungry data centers.

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Data Center, The Countrys Largest Natural Gas Power Plant [ PDF of Article ] -- TECfusions Unveils Massive 1,400-Acre Data Center Project With 3 Gigawatts Of Natural Gas-Fired Power Generation In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- DEP Issues Air Quality Permit For Nova Energy LLC Cryptocurrency Data Center In Venango County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments (..)

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2025

Meuser Bring Potential Gubernatorial Pitches To Conservative Conference In Harrisburg -- WESA/WVIA: Advocates, Environmentalists Split As President Signs Orders To Bolster Coal Industry -- Inquirer: State Treasurer Garrity Seriously Eyeing Run For Governor As Republican Race For 2026 Heats Up -- LancasterOnline: State Sen. Ohio- $3.02

Politics

Legal Planet

APRIL 10, 2025

And about the EPA having that email address set up for copy and paste exemptions to the Clean Air Act, which my colleague Mary D. Maryland is one of the states that aimed to spur the adoption of electric vehicles by adopting California’s clean-car and clean-truck regulations.

Nitrogen Oxides

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

The administration has officially filed proposed regulations to reinstate Schedule F but renamed Schedule Policy/Career. About 90 percent of the sampled cleaned surfaces showed Pb levels below the EPA limit, indicating that cleaning is often, but not always, effective at removing heavy metals from surfaces. Schedule F 2.0:

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2025

- By Maya K. 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Conservation

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

For fiscal year 2028, a state can choose to use its payment error rate from 2025 or 2026; however, for fiscal year 2029 and beyond, the payment error rate for the third fiscal year preceding the fiscal year being calculated will be used. For example, in fiscal year 2029, the payment error rate of 2026 will be used.

2013

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2025

Moreover, the Trump administration is resetting , or changing all of the membership of, both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Act Science Advisory Committee. FACs also have workgroups assigned to them to focus on specific topics relevant to the committee.

Government

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping plans to reconsider more than 31 major environmental regulations and programs, including pulling back regulations reducing methane emissions and regulating production wastewater from oil and gas operations. EPA promulgated the Subpart E regulations in 1979.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency will repeal all greenhouse gas emissions standards for the power sector under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and repeal 2024 amendments to the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) that directly result in coal-fired power plants having to shut down.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin published an op-ed highlighting steps the agency is taking to reduce burdensome regulations, unleash American energy dominance, and make America the AI capital of the world. Revolution"-- Upon returning from the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation summit this week, U.S.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Under the Clean Air Act, California has the unique ability to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from new vehicles, including greenhouse gases. There are some aggressive milestone requirements: 35% of new vehicles must be electric by 2026 and 68% in 2030. Other states can then piggyback on California’s efforts.

Carbon Emissions

Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is still awaiting funding to craft the regulations needed to implement the laws, though it has indicated it will begin the process soon. However, the existence of federal regulations on the same subject as a state law does not mean that state law is necessarily preempted. 218 (1947)).

Law

Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

This level of forced retirements is far in excess of any prior EPA projections of plant shutdowns resulting from implementation of a Clean Air Act rulemaking. For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule.

Ozone

Acoel

OCTOBER 17, 2024

the Court declined a request to stay the methane rule , which is aimed at reducing methane emissions from oil and gas operations under the Clean Air Act (the “CAA”). Also called the GHG rule , this regulation became effective on July 8, 2024 and imposes stringent reductions on CO2 emissions from power plants. EPA, et al.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

AUGUST 3, 2018

The study makes clear, however, that much of this increase is attributable to the cost of complying with state regulations (i.e., To support that view, the agencies rely on data published by the Energy Information Administration in 2017, which indicates that prices are likely to rise by just 16 percent through 2026.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

EPA , conservatives and industry interests have claimed that just about every new regulation violates the major question doctrine. When the Biden Administration ramped up fuel efficiency requirements through 2026, ideologues such as the Heartland Institute and states like Texas were quick to wheel out this attack.

Clean Air Act

ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

After the release of the Arctic Report Card, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy published the Arctic Research Plan for 2022-2026. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. EPA – Pesticide Registration Review; Proposed Interim Decisions for Several Pesticides; Notice of Availability.

2021

Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

In rejecting EPA’s plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, the Court stated that “agency decisions of vast economic and political significance” (i.e., applied the major questions doctrine to environmental regulations. Empire Bulkers Ltd.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Ohio and some other states argue that the waiver unconstitutionally gives California more power to regulate than it gives them. Q: Hi, Sean.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Californias Advanced Clean Car II (ACCII) regulations are set to go into effect starting with model year 2026 vehicles. However, there is also a long history of the auto industry resisting change by claiming that regulations are an existential threat to their business. What is the actual ZEV sales requirement?

2026

Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2021

As E&E News reported today, the Biden administration is expected to announce tomorrow new fuel economy and tailpipe emissions standards for light-duty vehicles model years (MY) 2023 through 2026. A total of ten lawsuits ended up as a consolidated action in the D.C. .

2026

Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. This blog post summarizes the history of federal vehicle emissions regulations, the arguments made by Petitioners in Texas v. The brief is available here.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This is true even for an administration as anti-regulatory as the Trump Administration was: remember the Executive Orde r requiring that for every new regulation adopted two had to be withdrawn? But regulations don’t just disappear and can’t just be withdrawn with the stroke of a pen. Rulemaking includes repealing a regulation.

2026

ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Biden administration proposed repealing Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. USFWS and NOAA Fisheries : The Trump administration had finalized two regulations that narrowly defined critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act and provided exclusions for economic impact, national security and outdoor recreation.

2021

Columbia Climate Law

APRIL 1, 2020

The policy identifies several situations in which COVID-19 may be considered the cause of a violation, including where a regulated entity’s ability to comply with environmental law is impacted by travel restrictions or social distancing requirements imposed to manage the pandemic, or worker shortages resulting from it.

Greenhouse

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Biden administration moved Thursday to formally repeal the Trump administration’s controversial rule that vastly restricted the scope of Clean Water Act protections. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA, S. The House also passed its NSF authorizing bill entitled NSF for the Future Act ( H.R. 2026 ), sponsored by Rep.

2021

Law and Environment

JUNE 11, 2021

exposure through our climate change regulation. Either way, the requirement to set NAAQS remains at the core of the Clean Air Act. By the time state implementation plans are revised to include measures to attain the new NAAQS, it will be sometime in 2025 or 2026. We can reduce PM 2.5 The Sooner, the Better.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2022

Cleaning up the mess and issuing new regulations is Priority #1 for the Biden Administration. No one of them is transformative standing alone, but their cumulative impact will be substantially cleaner air and lower carbon emissions. EPA restored of California’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.

Air Pollution