Legal Planet
JUNE 30, 2022
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. at 528–529. We answered no, given the existence of Section 111(d). American Elec.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 26, 2021
The case involved the lynchpin of the Clean Air Act, EPA’s power to set national air quality standards. The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. Among other things, the Clean Air Act gives federal protection to wetlands.
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Law Columbia
MARCH 29, 2024
EPA, as well as state and municipal governments, use the information received from reporting entities to inform the development and implementation of rules and regulations prescribed by the Clean Air Act (CAA). Notably, and unlike the SEC and California rules, EPA’s GHGRP is not directed at investors or consumers.
Law Columbia
APRIL 18, 2023
Air emissions standard : New York City’s approach to building electrification currently stands alone in prohibiting newly constructed buildings from “combust[ing] any substance that emits 25 kilograms or more of carbon dioxide per million British thermal units of energy.” Clean Air Act, not EPCA.
PA Environment Daily
MAY 11, 2023
May 11, the Environmental Integrity Project and Clean Air Council filed a federal lawsuit against the Shell Petrochemical Plant for repeatedly violating permitted air pollution limits from a massive new plastics production plant in Beaver County, which opened last year. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S.
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 30, 2022
Environmental Protection Agency's ability to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants under the federal Clean Air Act. EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons. Half-life : the time it takes for any pollutant (usually refers to radioactive material but also includes other toxic material) to halve its effect on the environment. Indoor air is anything contained with a building.
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