Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
We thought that the key to reducing air pollution was to require better pollution control devices. Conventional pollution controls would have been seen as transition measures until the shift to clean energy, so the Clean Air Act would have been written differently.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 11, 2021
As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.” During his tenure there, he helped write many important environmental laws including the 1970 Clean Water Amendments, the Clean Air Act, the Sewage Facilities Act, and the ERA.
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Legal Planet
APRIL 25, 2024
Is EPA’s new climate rule a sneaky effort to eliminate coal or a valid pollution standard? Some new arguments made by EPA convince me that it’s pursuing a time-tested approach to pollution control. It’s not that EPA is trying to grind down the industry.
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.
The Energy Law Blog
AUGUST 21, 2012
Under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”), EPA sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards (“NAAQS”) but states determine the specific control strategies that the individual state will use to achieve NAAQS. State of Texas v. Environmental Protection Agency , No. 10-60614 (5 th Cir. 7410(a)(1).
Law Columbia
AUGUST 22, 2022
Energy Policy & Conservation Act (“EPCA”), are specifically tasked with administering two broad rebate programs for which individuals and building owners are eligible. Clean Air Act appropriating $2.25 States, Indian tribes, and air pollution control agencies are also eligible for funding.
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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