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What’s Up With the Supreme Court?

Law and Environment

EPA , which challenges EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, and Sackett v. After all, no less a group of environmental radicals than the Edison Electric Institute has filed a brief in support of EPA’s authority to regulate GHGs. It’s difficult to call this Court conservative.

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EPA Restores the California Advanced Clean Car Program; GHG Emissions From Transportation Will Continue For Some Time

Law and Environment

EPA has now formally restored its waiver under § 209(b) of the Clean Air Act that allows California’s greenhouse gas emissions standards and Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, notwithstanding the preemption of state vehicle emission standards contained in § 209(a) of the CAA. My friend J.B.

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The New EPA Car Rule Doesn’t Violate the Major Questions Doctrine

Legal Planet

EPA , the Supreme Court struck down the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. EPA had previously considered electric vehicles as a way of reducing pollution. But the doctrine cannot be read that broadly.

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What’s Up With the Supreme Court?

Acoel

EPA , which challenges EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, and Sackett v. After all, no less a group of environmental radicals than the Edison Electric Institute has filed a brief in support of EPA’s authority to regulate GHGs. It’s difficult to call this Court conservative. Posted on January 31, 2022 by Seth Jaffe.

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Vehicle Regulations on Trial

Legal Planet

Circuit hears three cases challenging use of federal regulations to push adoption of electric vehicles and to allow California to forge path toward zero-emission cars. This would be a huge setback, though there are reasons to think that it would only delay rather than prevent the transition to clean cars. This week, the D.C.

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Legal Tools for Achieving Low Traffic Zones (LTZs): New Sabin Center White Paper

Law Columbia

cities are seeking to limit the flow of vehicular traffic in designated areas as a means to reduce greenhouse gas and other emissions from cars and trucks and to help achieve their municipal climate goals. Clean Air Act, the U.S. Energy Policy & Conservation Act and the U.S. An increasing number of U.S.

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EPA Proposes New Power Plant Rule That Promises Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in the Coming Years

Law and Environment

It was the at the core of the previous challenge to President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which the Supreme Court rejected in West Virginia v. They may also argue that carbon capture and hydrogen have not been “adequately demonstrated” and thus cannot be considered BSERs under the Clean Air Act. Emphasis added.]