Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

CLEEs new report State of Aviation Deecarbonization: State Policy Options to Regulate Carbon Emissions from Aviation and Federal Preemption Risk provides an in-depth analysis of these legal issues with respect to three potential state policy approaches: regulation via a low carbon or clean fuel standard , which creates a carbon intensity target for (..)

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

JUNE 6, 2025

To be able to avoid any restrictions under the Clean Air Act? If they do, one can imagine pay to play exploding in popularity with members of both parties when the appropriate time comes. Could one, for instance, be able to pay money to avoid federal criminal penalties?

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

On July 28, the US Environmental Protection Agency formally issued an interim final rule extending several deadlines for industry compliance with national methane standards for new and existing oil and gas facilities, known as Section 111, OOOOb/c of the Clean Air Act. 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

Clean Air Act

Real Climate

JULY 31, 2025

First off, the definition of pollutant in the Clean Air Act (CAA) clearly does include CO 2 as well as water vapor. But both claims are bogus. This was the point litigated in Massachusetts v.

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

On October 2024, the Clean Air Council and the Environment Integrity Project filed a notice of intent to sue the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for emitting particulate matter (PM 2.5) and nitrogen oxides in violation of the federal Clean Air Act, the state Air Pollution Control Act and the plant's permit.

Law

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

Individuals using the map can input their home address to see which facilities are near them. Click Here for the Environmental Integrity Project announcement.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2025

“We commend Pennsylvania’s efforts to meet their goals and remain committed to working alongside our partners by promoting and delivering practices that provide healthy, clean air to all Americans." Fine particulate pollution, known as PM2.5,

2012

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In addition, California’s ability to set its 100% zero-emissions target (and the ability of other states to adopt that target) relies on EPA’s issuance of a Clean Air Act preemption waiver.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act and Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

16 to 22 - $5.257 Million In Penalties; Conventional Well Owners Issued More Violations Than All Of 2023; More Abandoned Wells; Failure To Submit Shale Gas Reports [PaEN] -- EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

These reductions would put EPA back to its resources in 1980, before the implementation of critical new or expanded programs such as Superfund, key controls on hazardous waste, and important programs under the Clean Air Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act.

Toxic Substances Control Act

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

12 On Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Reductions; Hydrogen Hubs [PaEN] -- WHYY: ‘No Seat At The Table:’ Why Environmental Justice Activists Like Zulene Mayfield Fear Republican Presidential Win -- Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov.

Conservation

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Climate Solutions plaintiffs argue that I-2066 violates Washingtons single subject rule by requiring voters who may support affirming access to natural gas service, to vote for unrelated repeals and other changes to state law provisions that promote clean energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (among other unrelated changes).

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. From 2000 to 2020, national PM 2.5

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2025

The Environmental and Climate Justice Program was created by the Inflation Reduction Act under Clean Air Act Section 138 to award $3 billion in grants to community-based non-profits, Tribes, local governments, and higher education institutions in every state to tackle the climate crisis and environmental harms at the local level.

Government

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I’m not including laws that simply incentivize clean energy or those that fund pure science, even though both are vitally important parts of climate policy. Climate first cropped up in the Clean Air Act of 1970. Next up was the Global Climate Protection Act of 1987 , which was signed by Ronald Reagan.

Law

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Project 2025 report is 920 pages long, but only a few portions have gotten much public attention. The report’s significance is precisely that it goes beyond a few headline proposals to set a comprehensive agenda for a second Trump Administration. There are dozens of significant proposals relating to energy and the environment.

2025

National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

Truth in Labeling Law(suits) Research Fellows Rusty Rumley Solar Smarts Samantha Capaldo Samantha Mikolajczyk Bankruptcy Biofuels Biosecurity Biotechnology Carbon Checkoff Programs Climate Change Commercial Transactions Commodity Programs Conservation Programs Cooperatives Cottage Foods Country of Origin Labeling Crop Insurance Disaster Assistance (..)

2013

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

The City Council is also considering a bill that would require the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a rule to regulate indirect sources of air pollution. The City cannot directly regulate vehicle emissions due to Clean Air Act preemption, but it can regulate indirect sources like e-commerce warehouses.

Law

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A: The Clean Air Act gives EPA the power to regulate emissions from new cars and trucks. But theres an exemption for states that were already regulating vehicle emissions before the Clean Air Act was passed – which only California was doing. Q: That explains EPAs role.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

This would ensure that manufacturers are only compliant with the least protective regulation in any given year, including a provision that would actually allow manufacturers to simply buy their way out of compliance with the Clean Air Act, something that is explicitly disallowed under current law.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

EPA Supreme Court ruling which held that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. Attacks on the Endangerment Finding and EPAs Clean Air Act authority from industry interests are nothing new.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2025

The Courts language is worth a careful look: “The holdings of those cases that specific agency actions are lawfulincluding the Clean Air Act holding of Chevron itselfare still subject to statutory stare decisis despite our change in interpretive methodology.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2025

Conference of Mayors The Clean Air Acts opening provision recognizes that vehicles contribute to dangerous air pollution and that federal leadership is essential for the development of cooperative Federal, State, regional, and local programs to prevent and control air pollution.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Crawford County Violated Solar Energy Developers Civil Rights, Municipal Extortion, Bribery Totaling $150 Million -- Bloomberg: Presidents Tariffs Herald Higher Costs For A.I.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

Judges, policymakers, and advocacy groups have all recognized the potential that ISRs have to empower local air districts and states to better comply with the federal Clean Air Act and related state statutes, meet ambitious emission reduction targets, and reduce harms to community health.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In 1970, Lee Iacocca, then Ford’s executive vice president, said that the Clean Air Acts limits on tailpipe pollution “could prevent continued production of automobiles” and “do irreparable damage to the American economy.

2026

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

Supreme Court, not the wind or solar industries, that forced the EPA to act on the basis of existing law, the Clean Air Act. Wind and solar are clean energy. And while Wright claims labelling CO 2 as pollution is a marketing tactic, it was the U.S.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MAY 1, 2025

Are environmental regulations destroying jobs and crippling the economy? On March 12, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on X that: @EPA is initiating 31 historic actions to Power the Great American Comeback in the greatest day of deregulation in American history!

Regulations

Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2025

The Clean Air Act, which prohibits states from exceeding federal emissions standards for motor vehicles, with the significant exception of Californias statutory ability to obtain a preemption waiver for standards needed to tackle the states singular air pollution challenges.

Law

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

The 2009 endangerment finding has played a foundational role in Clean Air Act regulation of GHG emissions from both mobile and stationary sources. As the court noted, the Clean Air Act only requires a finding that the air pollution at issue may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.

2009

Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2025

Shell on behalf of all the companies responded that the Solicitor General had effectively reversed the governments position that the Clean Air Act preempts claims in these climate cases. 7401 et seq. The outgoing Biden Administration had also opposed an effort by GOP-led states to block the suits.

Clean Air Act

Nanotech

JUNE 18, 2025

The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine the applicable volume requirements for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for years after those specified in the statute.

2027

MGKF Law

JUNE 29, 2025

EPA , holding fuel producers had standing—and had specifically demonstrated redressability—to challenge California-specific regulations EPA approved under the Clean Air Act. Read More » Tags: Agency Action , Air , California , Clean Air Act , Climate Change , D.C.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards EPA derives its authority and mandate to promulgate rules regulating mobile sources like light- and medium-duty vehicles from Section 202 of the Clean Air Act. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2025

The GGRF fares particularly badly: in addition to the rescission of unobligated balances, the Act repeals the underlying statutory authority for the program (in simple terms, it strikes the relevant section from Clean Air Act).

2026

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 17, 2025

We can rebuild it—we have the technology (and lax regulations) Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency sets emissions standards for engines in new locomotives. Unfortunately, the Biden administration did not grant such a waiver before leaving office.

Regulations