Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

We need EPA to act to limit this health-harming pollution and stop looking for ways to evade that responsibility.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Key targets include regulations substantially limiting carbon emissions from coal-fired powerplants, cars, and trucks. But scores of other regulations are in the cross-hairs, such as energy efficiency standards that benefit consumers and a variety of rules that protect clean air and water.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2025

billion tons of carbon dioxide a year, a little less than the entire country of Russia. The Trump Administration is proposing to end all regulation of carbon emissions by power plants, on the theory that these emissions should be considered insignificant. carbon emissions. power plants emit 1.5

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2025

EPAs efforts to regulate carbon emissions from powerplants have had a tortuous history, and were about to go through another round, with a rule from a Democratic Administration being repealed and replaced by a Trump rule.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Zeldin has begun a rollback of Biden administration energy efficiency and water conservation regulations for home appliances and fixtures, and is asking Congress to repeal waivers for California to phase out new, gasoline-only vehicle sales and stricter emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day In 2024-25; Extreme Weather Risk Big Factor [PaEN] Related Articles This Week: -- Coterra Energy Fined $299,000 For Contaminating 13 Private Water Supplies In Lenox Twp., 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day In 2024-25; Extreme Weather Risk Big Factor [PaEN] Related Articles This Week: -- Coterra Energy Fined $299,000 For Contaminating 13 Private Water Supplies In Lenox Twp., So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

We've demonstrated this commitment through our Climate Pledge goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. Note: Vantage Data Centers has a goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions for scopes 1 and 2 by 2030.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

EPA has proposed a novel reading of the Clean Air Act (CAA) that would foreclose any regulation of CO2 emissions from power plants. power industry’s emissions are nearly as large as Russia’s total emissions. On its face, this seems like a questionable conclusion, given that the U.S.

Pollution Control

Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

An about-face on the Clean Air Act The Clean Air Act provision that EPA uses to regulate power plant carbon — known as Section 111 — asks EPA to first determine whether a source category “causes, or contributes significantly” to harmful air pollution.

Regulations

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

One such survey involved 130,000 people in 125 countries, which account for 96% of the worlds carbon emissions, and was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Crucially, however, they thought only a minority of other people 43% would be willing to do the same. The arguments in Diamond Alternative Energy v.

Earth Day

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 16, 2025

On June 11, less than five months into the Trump administration, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin used a rulemaking about regulating power plant carbon pollution to officially establish climate denial as EPA policy. Plus, a rundown on how to fight back. What is EPA proposing to do? And that’s not all.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Clean Power Plan was based on section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. There’s been a lot of discussion among academics and advocates about instead using section 115 of the Clean Air Act as a basis for carbon regulations. EPA might well get substantial reductions in carbon emissions this way.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Social Cost of Carbon D. EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Standards for carbon and methane emissions from new sources Permitting requirements for carbon emissions from new stationary sources of major sources of existing pollutants.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage. carbon emissions today.

Climate Change

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.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The possibility of snagging some of this funding may also help nudge some lagging states to think seriously about cutting carbon emissions. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the unique ability to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from new vehicles, including greenhouse gases.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

JULY 2, 2024

” This actually pretty typical language in environmental statutes,, such as section 202 of the Clean Air Act, which EPA has used to limit carbon emissions from cars. The Court summarizes that section as saying: “Whenever, in the judgment of the [Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)] Administrator.

Clean Air Act

Environment Next

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In a case that could open the door to more citizen suits to enforce mobile source provisions of the Clean Air Act—a category of enforcement actions that has so far failed to gain much traction—the 10 th Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an opinion broadly upholding a non-profit organization’s standing.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

That’s because 45V awards credits based on the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions rate of produced hydrogen, and the statutory text defines that term via explicit reference to a definition set in the Clean Air Act.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act.

Regulations

Environment, Law, and History

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The upshot was to give states standing to sue EPA for failing to take action against carbon emissions. Also, this line of cases was repurposed early in this century in order to bring lawsuits against major carbon emitters in federal court.

Air Pollution

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.”

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

However, the availability of CCS is highly dependent on local topology, such as salt caverns available to sequester carbon and the availability of a pipeline infrastructure to transport carbon emissions from individual generating plants to CCS sites potentially hundreds of miles away.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency is in the middle of adopting rulemakings under the federal Clean Air Act that will require natural gas infrastructure operators to more carefully monitor methane emissions and develop plans to meet new emission limits. Applegate noted the U.S.

Natural Gas

Acoel

AUGUST 14, 2023

Take for instance: the burning Cuyahoga River that led to the Clean Water Act; the disastrous air pollution incident in Donora, PA that led to the passage of the Clean Air Act; the discovery of Love Canal that lead to the passage of Superfund; and most tragically, the chemical gas release in Bhopal, India that lead to the passage of EPCRA.

Law

Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2024

Opponents are sure to legally challenge EPA’s new rule to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. First, EPA’s preferred technology to limit carbon emissions — carbon capture and storage (CCS) — isn’t just pie in the sky. energy mix.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

-- PA Resources Council Hosts Backyard Composting Workshop March 23 In Delaware County [PaEN] -- Group Against Smog & Pollution: PA Regulators Struggle To Implement Federal Clean Air Act Requirements For Regional Power Plants -- Scranton Times: Tunkhannock Area Schools Going All Out For Solar Energy Generation; Will Have Largest Solar Facility (..)

Conservation

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

2017

Cresforum

OCTOBER 6, 2020

KEEP ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE TO REDUCE EMISSIONS Government should not pick winners and losers, but instead support all possible technological options available to avoid, reduce, capture and sequester greenhouse gases. The all of the above approach to clean energy is the principal reason the U.S.

Endangered Species Act

Cresforum

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The all of the above approach to clean energy is the principal reason the U.S. has been able to reduce carbon emissions more than any other country. Conservatives have overseen some of the most enduring legacies of American environmental policy.

Endangered Species Act

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. 10 years later, the act was modified to include toxic pollutants and funded sewage.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2024

In the underlying statutory text , the threshold for “clean hydrogen” is clearly defined: 0.45 kg CO 2 e per kilogram of hydrogen produced, with carbon emissions assessed on a lifecycle basis as already defined in a long-standing section of the Clean Air Act.

Clean Energy

Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Cutting down tree canopies without replacing it passively increases climate change by the simple fact that trees and other vegetation are carbon sinks (15). Kennedy announced the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air Act although neither would come into effect during his presidency.

Atmosphere