Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

CARB’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seeks to incentivize the production and sale of alternative, lower emissions transportation fuels in order to displace conventional fossil fuels. To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Nuclear power regulation D. FERC pipeline regulation (natural gas and hydrogen). Rules relating to renewable and fossil fuel development on public lands and offshore. California authority to regulate new vehicles D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. Because while this decision does still recognize EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, it simultaneously sharply curtails the agency’s ability to do so.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. Four years later under George W.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It attempted to move away from fossil fuels and toward zero-carbon sources like solar power to supply electricity. Here are the options going forward for regulating existing power plants. Switch to another legal basis for regulation. The Clean Power Plan was based on section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

On the domestic front, the head of EPA managed to maneuver the Administration into endorsing federal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Trump rolled back over a hundred environmental regulations, including virtually all of Obama’s actions. Download as PDF

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

In rejecting EPA’s plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, the Court stated that “agency decisions of vast economic and political significance” (i.e., applied the major questions doctrine to environmental regulations. EPA , D.C.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. By Korey Silverman-Roati. Background. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

EPA , conservatives and industry interests have claimed that just about every new regulation violates the major question doctrine. When the Biden Administration ramped up fuel efficiency requirements through 2026, ideologues such as the Heartland Institute and states like Texas were quick to wheel out this attack.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S. EN: These standards—or at least something based on the same Clean Air Act provision—have been in the works for a long time. Meanwhile, in 2021, the case against the Clean Power Plan re-emerged , resulting in the West Virginia v.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 10, 2024

Circuit Court of Appeals denied several challenges to EPA’s decision to restore California’s authority under § 209(b) of the Clean Air Act to regulate emissions from motor vehicles. On Tuesday, in Ohio v. EPA , the D.C. It’s definitely a win for EPA. However, I’m not a member of the Supreme Court.

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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2022

The Clean Power Plan has no practical significance today: the deadlines in the Plan have long since passed, and the U.S. The Trump Administration said that the second two prongs, involving shifts away from coal and toward renewables, went beyond EPA’s powers under the Clean Air Act. Overruling Massachusetts v.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2024

379, EPA also points out that even without any regulation EPA’s model shows that some plants will install CCS and run at high capacity. Simply put, the Inflation Reduction Act has made CCS an economically feasible technology. It’s an ambitious approach but within the bounds of the possible.

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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. Over 10,000 UCS supporters chimed in with EPA in support of granting California’s ability to enforce its truck regulations. Washington.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2024

As the Biden administration works to finalize implementation guidance for the new clean hydrogen production tax credit , 45V, the fossil fuel industry and a select set of other industry actors are aggressively lobbying to loosen the rules—while everyone else is scrambling to stop them. Here’s why. Extremely generous.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. The imminent impacts on clean energy projects are uncertain.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 29, 2022

The argument made in the media is that IRA overrides the Supreme Court because of provisions that characterize greenhouse gases as pollutants or otherwise indicate EPA has authority to regulate them. The Court ruled in 2007 that greenhouse gases are pollutants and that EPA has authority to regulate them.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

In late December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations for the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit. The tax credit, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, provides a generous incentive for the production of clean hydrogen.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Or, they may use “any similar methodology that satisfies the criteria under § 211(o)(1)(H) of the Clean Air Act.” The RFS credits certain biomass-derived jet fuels that either (1) fall within one of six generally applicable production pathways established by program regulations; or (2) receive company-specific approval from EPA.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

After weeks of hints and leaks, yesterday morning (May 11, 2023), EPA proposed a new rule regulating emissions from power plants. 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.] The Court rejected this approach.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We know that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and that climate change is the source of adverse impacts on communities and even regional and national economies. by Justin Gundlach. These points are largely undisputed. Peter Frumhoff led off, presenting two key points.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When Congress passes a law, it normally delegates to the relevant federal agency (or agencies) the responsibility of writing regulations to implement that law. Instead of deferring to the EPA’s interpretation of the Clean Air Act, the Supreme Court overturned the rule based on the “major questions doctrine.”.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

The industry also relies on the fact that the regulations for new sources become immediately applicable to all sources constructed after it is proposed. It also argues that a regulation with phased requirements is applicable to new plants built after it is proposed, step by step as the various phases go into effect.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Robert Bullard, “environmental justice embraces the principle that all people and communities have a right to equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.” The latter would invest in a just energy transition, funding job training programs in states that have historically depended on fossil fuel extraction.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One particularly notable adjustment reflects a direct request from truck manufacturers, who ( as noted previously ) have been intensely engaged in a battle to weaken the rule as part of an ongoing war against pollution regulations that undermines the lip service the companies give on climate. Sadly, it didn’t.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 31, 2022

EPA ) addressing the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil-fuel powered power plaints. Click here to read the article (begins on p.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

In order to regulate existing power plants—especially existing coal-fired plants—EPA turned to section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. The Obama Administration’s section 111(d) regulation was known as the Clean Power Plan. Under its newly “discover[ed]” authority, Utility Air, 573 U. Background .

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The bench trial took place last month in the state capitol, Helena, where 16 youth plaintiffs ages 5 to 22 made the case that Montana’s unwavering promotion of fossil fuels violates the state constitution’s guarantee to a “clean and healthful environment.” Whether Montana’s GHG emissions can be measured incrementally.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A brief history of fuel economy standards In the wake of the 1970s oil embargo that resulted in gasoline shortages and rationing, the country started to recognize the harm of a daily life reliant upon oil. EPA , and Congress finalized the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 , requiring increasing fuel economy standards.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

EPA as a decision depriving EPA of an important tool to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. First Court did not eliminate the Agency’s ability to require greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reductions under section 111 or any other section of the Clean Air Act. Posted on July 5, 2022 by Robert B.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

That includes 5 million deaths linked to breathing in the emissions of fossil fuels. But what about the millions of people whose lives have been extended over the last half century by federal regulation and millions more who could benefit from the tightening of rules as the science of pollution and climate change keep improving?

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Supreme Court decision on regulating carbon pollution from power plants-- The Supreme Court decision in West Virginia vs. EPA to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon pollution is a significant blow to God’s children here in the United States and throughout creation. Related Articles This Week: -- U.S.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. Regulating power plant emissions is a complex undertaking. at 528–529. 410 (2011).

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