Air Pollution Clean Air Act Greenhouse Law 
MGKF Law
AUGUST 2, 2023
On July 25, 2023, a Third Circuit panel rejected an environmental group’s challenge of federally approved changes to Pennsylvania’s State Implementation Plan (“SIP”), holding that the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) emissions-based analysis did not violate the Clean Air Act (“CAA”).
Legal Planet
AUGUST 26, 2021
The same is true in environmental law. Was it a fundamental paradigm shift, re-centering the law on new values? With all this in mind, here are the cases that I see as making up the canon and anti-canons of environmental law. The case involved the lynchpin of the Clean Air Act, EPA’s power to set national air quality standards.
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Legal Planet
AUGUST 22, 2023
States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.
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. 7411(b)(1)(B); see also §7411(a)(2). Connecticut , 564 U. 410 (2011). Post, at 20.
Law Columbia
MARCH 29, 2024
This post is the third in a series of blogs that address specific legal features of the rule: Part One offered a summary of the final rule, and delved into the materiality threshold that was added throughout the rule, including for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosure.
Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2024
version of the rule] Thus, while the Clean Power Plan directly managed the fuel mix of utilities, the connection between the rule and automotive power sources is much more flexible. Third, the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Law both include billions of dollars relating to electric vehicles.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Sponsored Content.
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