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 (..)

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Legal Planet

JUNE 28, 2024

For example, there’s a current challenge to EPA’s waiver under the Clean Air Act for the Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulations (ACT), which require that zero-emission trucks represent an increasing proportion of in-state heavy-duty truck sales. (A

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 18, 2023

The settlement includes the largest civil penalty in a stationary source settlement since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2025

Why might we have an environmental review statute such as NEPA when we already have a range of other environmental protection statutes such as the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and more? The first post is here. What does NEPA do that these other statutes are not already doing?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

On March 24, the US Environmental Protection Agency posted information on how industries regulated under a variety of federal Clean Air Act programs could obtain Presidential Exemptions from those requirements. Click Here for the EPA announcement [ PDF of page ].

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On October 23, 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. "As

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2024

We also found that co-located sterilization facilities, facilities in communities with higher cancer risks, and facilities that have violated the Clean Air Act are disproportionately near people of color, illustrating the vast disparities of who this pollutant impacts most. You can find our report and interactive map here.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2022

Earlier this year, a team of economists published a retrospective paper on the Clean Air Act. Some of the findings are not surprises: stricter regulations actually do result in improved air quality. The grandfather of emission trading programs is the SO2 program created by the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

and numerous affiliated companies (collectively, GWRSI) for violation of Clean Air Act (CAA) locomotive regulations. The settlement is expected to reduce tons of nitrogen oxide and particulate matter pollution and improve air quality where their trains operate.”

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Standing based on climate impacts C. Social Cost of Carbon D. Co-benefits E. Climate science F. Climate justice II.

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Environment, Law, and History

DECEMBER 11, 2020

President Nixon signs the Clean Air Act of 1970 Richard Revesz recently posted a piece on climate change regulation, " Bostock and the End of the Climate Change Double Standard" , forthcoming in the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law.

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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. Among other things, the Clean Air Act gives federal protection to wetlands.

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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. Here are the options going forward for regulating existing power plants.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the previous three years, Congress had passed NEPA, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. Continuing the legislative wave, 1973 saw the passage of the Endangered Species Act (ESA. 1973 was at the crest of the environmental surge that swept the United States half a century ago.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. And here, the Court has struck a devastating blow.

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NRDC

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Congress’ critical role in addressing the plastic crisis: Don't support plastic polluters' plans to remove Clean Air Act restrictions on incinerating plastic.

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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.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 7, 2023

One tries to combine two lines of precedent to argue that state liability rules were preempted by federal liability rules, but that the federal liability rules themselves were displaced by the Clean Air Act so no basis for liability remains. I don’t expect this argument to win in state court.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 1, 2022

Yet EPA isn’t proposing standards consistent with those plans, let alone actually driving the industry beyond what it already promises to do, as required under the Clean Air Act. This fight by industry to delay, obstruct, and otherwise thwart stronger regulation has devastating consequences. Image: Freightliner ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

California has a longstanding leadership role on transportation pollution, and the Clean Air Act grants the state the right to set strong vehicle emissions standards. While the waiver addresses California’s ability to enforce its rules, the Clean Air Act also allows other states the ability to adopt California’s policies.

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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.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. And what sparked the ensuing plunge in coal use starting with Obama’s presidency? The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation.

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Scientific American

APRIL 22, 2024

The Biden administration is marking Earth Week with announcements of solar power funding for lower-income communities, an expansion of the Climate Corps and Clean Air Act rules

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

EPA plans to issue a Clean Air Act rulemaking for commercial sterilizers later this year and for other chemical facilities soon, as well. EPA proposed changes to its MON rule in 2019, regulating toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants that produce solvents, plastics, and pesticides across the country.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

For example, regulations under the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, which often rely on broad and ambiguous statutory mandates, are now vulnerable to unfavorable rulings at the hand of activist judges. This could hinder efforts to implement climate policies at the federal level.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

On October 17, 2022, the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed finding that lead air pollution may reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health and welfare within the meaning of Section 231(a) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C.

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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.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. But a closer read suggests more sweeping, longer-term implications for incentivizing the development of clean energy projects nationwide. What does this mean for clean energy projects? What is the case about? .

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Legal Planet

JULY 11, 2024

Thus, “the holdings of those cases that specific agency actions are lawful—in­cluding the Clean Air Act holding of Chevron itself—are still subject to statutory stare decisis [Latin for standing by past decisions] despite our change interpretive methodology.”

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 24, 2023

Clean Air Act. But the facility’s legacy of smog pollution continued long after … Continue reading How the Clean Air Act lets closed coal plants keep polluting for years

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On November 17, Erie Coke Corporation, along with a corporate officer, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on among other charges, Violation of the Clean Air Act, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today. The eight-count Indictment, returned on Nov.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

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

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Corp Watch

AUGUST 28, 2023

AGREES TO PAY OVER $1 MILLION FOR CLEAN AIR ACT VIOLATION Department of Justice PaulaR Mon, 08/28/2023 - 12:50 Saturday, June 25, 2005 Read more WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a Clean Air Act settlement with Volkswagen of America, Inc. VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA, INC.

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MGKF Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Read More » Tags: Administrative Appeals , Citizen Suit , Clean Air Act , Sixth Circuit , Standing Sierra Club et al. 21-3057, 2023 WL 1873168, at * 1 (6th Cir.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We also estimated that EtO emissions contributed to more than 80 percent of the cancer risk attributable to toxic air pollution around the facility. Even more, not only was this facility emitting high levels of EtO, but it was also violating the federal Clean Air Act (CAA).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

discussing the ways in which local air districts can take action to end harmful air pollution from building appliances. As we explained in our brief, under the federal Clean Air Act, states are required to submit SIPs detailing strategies to come into attainment with federal air quality standards for pollutants like ozone and PM2.5.

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