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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 5, 2023
greenhouse gas emissions, more than the electric power sector. EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. I’m an appellate litigator with a focus on climate and Clean Air Act cases.
Law and Environment
MAY 12, 2023
SO2, and NOx – harmful air pollutants that are known to endanger public health. 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. Emphasis added.] This language, particularly the bolded text, is important. The Court rejected this approach.
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Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2024
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 has decades of experience and expertise regarding vehicle technology. But the doctrine cannot be read that broadly. The rule is not unprecedented.
Legal Planet
JANUARY 25, 2022
EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Our client is Tom Jorling, a former Senate staffer and EPA official who was directly involved in drafting the Act in 1970. (We The Clean Power Plan never went into effect.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 2, 2023
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. Still, the fact that this draft rule follows the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”) has enabled the EPA to be relatively stringent.
Law and Environment
JANUARY 27, 2022
EPA , which challenges EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, and Sackett v. Of course, the EEI did so to ensure that the Clean Air Act continues to act as a shield against private tort actions over carbon emissions, but still. It’s difficult to call this Court conservative.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 14, 2023
Second, the industry doesn’t invoke the major question doctrine, making it clear that it does not view such technology mandates as out of bounds for EPA in the future. Technological Viability. It argues that these technologies have great potential. Third, most of its comments are focused on timing issues.
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