Legal Planet
APRIL 12, 2024
’s delegation of federal Clean Air Act (CAA) authority for California to adopt regulations limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles and mandating the state’s steady transition from sales of conventional cars and light trucks to electric vehicles. EPA decision.)
Legal Planet
MAY 11, 2023
still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. Joe Manchin about holding up EPA nominations claiming “overreach” ) But this is not just about the political calculus of a president trying to make good on a climate pledge. In the year 2023, the U.S.
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Law and Environment
MAY 12, 2023
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. Of course, the sector largely made the shift on its own because of economics, even though the Clean Power Plan was held up in litigation and never went into effect.) For more on West Virginia v.
Legal Planet
JANUARY 18, 2024
The government’s efforts to control methane have followed a complicated path, involving three different congressional actions: section 111 of the Clean Air Act, which allows EPA to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases; a congressional override of an earlier regulatory action; and a newer statute that creates a fee on methane emissions.
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.,
Legal Planet
JULY 20, 2023
Both the car and power plant regulations involve major portions of the economy, but that is a normal attribute of Clean Air Act regulations. EPA does not claim “virtually unlimited power to rewrite” the Clean Air Act. And both are involve large compliance costs, though again that isn’t unusual.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 24, 2023
The reason may have been the high political stakes in the car industry or the relatively easier task of setting standards for new products in a single industry using a single energy process. The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 grams per mile (gpm) for NOx. When fully phased in, they will set a 0.7
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