Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
In particular, he said, “reliance upon coal, on the other hand, could aggravate the ‘greenhouse effect,’ whereby excess carbon dioxide (which accompanies coal burning) traps heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, thus possibly melting the icecaps and raising the level of the oceans.”
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. In 2011, in AEP v. at 528–529. We answered no, given the existence of Section 111(d).
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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. This gave EPA the power to impose limits on carbon emissions by vehicles and industry.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
The EPA recently stated that the Clairton plant Title V permit violates the emission standards set by the Clean Air Act. EPA, the company emits close to 4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year. and sulfur dioxide (SO2). In Clairton, nearly 40% of residents are Black, concentrated near the U.S.
ESA
JULY 1, 2022
At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.”
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 30, 2022
Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act. Supreme Court released its decision on West Virginia V. EPA, a crucial case concerning the authority of the U.S. The group is the youth wing of the York County-based Evangelical Environmental Network.
Environment, Law, and History
JANUARY 12, 2022
In particular, he said, “reliance upon coal, on the other hand, could aggravate the ‘greenhouse effect,’ whereby excess carbon dioxide (which accompanies coal burning) traps heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, thus possibly melting the icecaps and raising the level of the oceans.”
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