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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. I’m an appellate litigator with a focus on climate and Clean Air Act cases. Q: Hi, Sean. For about 15 years I’ve been practicing in a very small firm.
Acoel
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Croix and in South Carolina, EPA invoked Section 303 of the Clean Air Act, which provides for the issuance of an emergency order in response to an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health or welfare, to require immediate actions to either pause operations or reduce emissions from the facilities. In actions in St.
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Legal Planet
JULY 20, 2023
Both the car and power plant regulations involve major portions of the economy, but that is a normal attribute of Clean Air Act regulations. EPA does not claim “virtually unlimited power to rewrite” the Clean Air Act. And both are involve large compliance costs, though again that isn’t unusual.
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. and Sierra Club v.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 1, 2022
Truck traffic has been on the rise , even during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that increase means even more air pollution in communities already disproportionately impacted by the public health emergency. Extensive testing by EPA and suppliers like Eaton and Achates shows that diesels can achieve a 20 mg NO X /bhp-hr standard.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 20, 2022
This rule was a clear opportunity to exercise the Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act to promote the most advanced emissions reductions technology. Thankfully, they’ve reduced the maximum allowable limit to 65 mg NO X /bhp-hr, just less than double the average requirement, at least on the lab tests.
Environmental and Urban Economics
DECEMBER 29, 2020
The Gruenspecht effect refers to an economist who in his Yale PHD thesis argued that the Clean Air Act can unintentionally make air pollution worse in the short run if car drivers keep their old cars longer because regulation raises the price of new cars (a regulation induced substitution effect).
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