Legal Planet
APRIL 12, 2024
Courts) This week California and the Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency won a critically-important environmental lawsuit in the U.S. The case involves a constitutional challenge brought by a coalition of conservative (“red”) states to E.P.A.’s Environmental Protection Agency.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
As illustrated by Trump’s comment, “job-killing regulations” has been a long-time meme among conservatives. In terms of the overall economy, the idea that environmental regulation destroys jobs seems to be a myth. Look at it this way: In 1970, when the Clean Air Act was passed, the unemployment rate was twice what it is today.
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Legal Planet
JANUARY 3, 2024
As we begin 2024, it’s useful to identify and assess the many environmental issues that the U.S. It seems likely that the conservative majority of the justices will erode or, perhaps, dramatically jettison longstanding principles of environmental law and policy in the coming months. Court of Appeals.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 2, 2023
Image via PickPik On May 23, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed emission limits and guidelines for carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-powered plants. To avoid the same fate as the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, which was struck down by the conservative Supreme Court in West Virginia v.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
The US Supreme Court seems to have appointed itself as a rogue Environmental Protection Agency, seeking to protect polluters rather than the public. The court’s conservative majority went so far as to ignore EPA science conducted during the conservative George W. Bush administration.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision the US Supreme Court handed down in June curtailed strategies EPA can use to slow climate change, but its problematic implications stretch far beyond greenhouse gas reduction. The West Virginia v. The Constitution balances power between three branches of government.
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 30, 2022
Environmental Protection Agency's ability to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants under the federal Clean Air Act. EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority.
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