Legal Planet

JUNE 6, 2025

That provision is not unique, and indeed it looks like House Republicans are trying to develop a new tool to use reconciliation (which can avoid a Senate filibuster) to alter substantive law. To be able to avoid any restrictions under the Clean Air Act? Similar pay to play provisions exist elsewhere in the bill.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

Opponents will undoubtedly argue that such state-based initiatives conflict with federal law.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If successful, the effort would represent the first time a states preemption law on natural gas restrictions for buildings was overturned or repealed for any reason, litigation included. It’s worth noting how I-2066 differs from other states preemption laws. State preemption of local law is difficult to meaningfully combat.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

Last Thursday, May 22, the New York State Court of Appeals the States highest court issued a decision upholding New York Citys Local Law 97 of 2019. Local Law 97 is one of the countrys most ambitious municipal climate policies, requiring the Citys largest buildings to comply with increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits.

Law

National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

Additionally, the Supreme Court found that when considering whether an agency’s NEPA report complies with the law, reviewing courts should grant “substantial deference” to the agency. National Environmental Policy Act NEPA was signed into law on January 1, 1970.

2013

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Railroading State Environmental Law: The Surface Transportation Board Preempts All By Benjamin Albertson The Surface Transportation Board (“STB”) has exclusive authority over railroads in the United States and has since the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 (“ICCTA”).

Law

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

require a petition to meet three criteria in DEP’s initial review-- -- Petition must be complete; -- Petition requests an action that can be taken by the EQB [within its statutory authority]; and -- The action does not conflict with federal law. DEP’s determination means the petition has met these three criteria, at this stage.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2025

Other Air Quality Standards, Redesigned An Air Quality Maintenance Area DEP Sets Aug. Of Health Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets To Residents Near PA’s 4 Operating Nuclear Power Plants Aug. 14 EPA: Liberty-Clairton In Allegheny County Makes Progress In Meeting PM2.5, 20, Crawford County; Annual Dinner Sept.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

These reductions would put EPA back to its resources in 1980, before the implementation of critical new or expanded programs such as Superfund, key controls on hazardous waste, and important programs under the Clean Air Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act. Resource Links: -- EPA Alumni Assn.:

Toxic Substances Control Act

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act and Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc. Attorney Eric G.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) committed billions of dollars to EV purchase incentives, charging programs, and manufacturing. This year, electrified vehicles constituted about 9 percent of US sales and 25 percent of California sales.

Fossil Fuels

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

However, the court disagreed, concluding that Swampbuster is a valid exercise of Congress’s spending power and that the law should be upheld. Share: Recent Posts Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional NALC news release: National Ag Law Center webinar to examine U.S. 5 U.S.C. §

2013

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2025

Southern Environmental Law Center, Earthjustice, Public Rights Project, and Lawyers for Good Government filed the challenge on behalf of ECJ grant recipients to seek the nationwide restoration of the program and to require the administration to reinstate awarded grant agreements.

Government

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. I’ll discuss these laws in chronological order. Only laws that specifically cover climate or greenhouse gases are included. Climate first cropped up in the Clean Air Act of 1970.

Law

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Obviously they couldn’t just be underpaid public servants doing their best to implement the law.)

2025

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards EPA derives its authority and mandate to promulgate rules regulating mobile sources like light- and medium-duty vehicles from Section 202 of the Clean Air Act. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A: The Clean Air Act gives EPA the power to regulate emissions from new cars and trucks. But theres an exemption for states that were already regulating vehicle emissions before the Clean Air Act was passed – which only California was doing. Q: That explains EPAs role.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

This would ensure that manufacturers are only compliant with the least protective regulation in any given year, including a provision that would actually allow manufacturers to simply buy their way out of compliance with the Clean Air Act, something that is explicitly disallowed under current law.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

EPA Supreme Court ruling which held that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. Attacks on the Endangerment Finding and EPAs Clean Air Act authority from industry interests are nothing new.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2025

The Courts language is worth a careful look: “The holdings of those cases that specific agency actions are lawfulincluding the Clean Air Act holding of Chevron itselfare still subject to statutory stare decisis despite our change in interpretive methodology. Courts also have a duty to correctly follow the law.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2025

Conference of Mayors The Clean Air Acts opening provision recognizes that vehicles contribute to dangerous air pollution and that federal leadership is essential for the development of cooperative Federal, State, regional, and local programs to prevent and control air pollution.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2025

But today the Supreme Court declined that request to review whether federal law prevents states and cities from suing the companies. In their appeal, the oil companies argued that the Hawaii Supreme Court erred by finding the case was not preempted by federal laws. City & County of Honolulu v. 7401 et seq. 7401 et seq.

Clean Air Act

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

The webinar is the latest installment in the NALC’s “Western Water” Webinar Series, which highlights pressing water law issues in the Western United States. NALC Director Harrison Pittman said the “Western Water” Webinar Series plays an important role in sharing legal insight on water law across the country.

2013

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Adding-- the use of O&G PWs on Program funded [Dirt & Gravel Road] projects is in opposition with not only the fundamental goals of the Program, but the law that created the Program. The guidelines were administered by DEP under the Clean Streams Law, Solid Waste Management Act and the Oil and Gas Act.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

Judges, policymakers, and advocacy groups have all recognized the potential that ISRs have to empower local air districts and states to better comply with the federal Clean Air Act and related state statutes, meet ambitious emission reduction targets, and reduce harms to community health.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

Supreme Court, not the wind or solar industries, that forced the EPA to act on the basis of existing law, the Clean Air Act. Wind and solar are clean energy. And while Wright claims labelling CO 2 as pollution is a marketing tactic, it was the U.S.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2025

It calls out Californias long-standing greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, as well as New Yorks and Vermonts recent laws reinforcing the right to hold major emitters responsible for climate impacts they have contributed to, as illegitimate impediments to American energy. As noted, these restrictions are narrow, clear, and widely understood.

Law

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

The 2009 endangerment finding has played a foundational role in Clean Air Act regulation of GHG emissions from both mobile and stationary sources. As the court noted, the Clean Air Act only requires a finding that the air pollution at issue may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.

2009

MGKF Law

JUNE 29, 2025

EPA , holding fuel producers had standing—and had specifically demonstrated redressability—to challenge California-specific regulations EPA approved under the Clean Air Act. Read More » Tags: Agency Action , Air , California , Clean Air Act , Climate Change , D.C.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2025

The OBBB Act ushers in a consequential shift for local governments and community groups building clean energy projects, investing in electric vehicles (EVs) and, in some instances, navigating IRA grant programs. The new law is sprawling, at more than 800 pages.

2026

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Understanding the Endangerment Finding Two requirements must be met before a substance can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. First, it has to qualify as an air pollutant. There, the Court said that EPA had to consider cost when EPA applied a law that authorized EPA to issue appropriate regulations.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Californias power under the federal Clean Air Act to cut pollutants from cars and trucks is unquestionable and longstanding. And because a number of other states follow the California standards as federal law authorizes , a large portion of the country will follow these important programs.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

We adhere to EPAs long-held core principles that the agency should be apolitical, professional, transparent, and dedicated to following the law and science. Actions that diminish EPAs capabilities will place at risk the quality of the air our children breathe, the water we all drink, and the waterways we swim, fish and play in.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

California is allowed to set standards stronger than the federal government under the 1970 Clean Air Act provisions in recognition that CA, and many other states which have adopted CA standards , serve an important role as laboratories of innovation controlling air pollution in novel ways. In the U.S., auto industry.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

Plan, President Keeps Chipping Away At Foundational Environmental Law New Federal Administration -- Utility Dive: US Dept. So Far This Year [PaEN] -- Spotlight PA: Why Pennsylvanians May See Higher Electric Bills This Summer And Next [PJM Auction, A.I. 23 Pollinator Pathway Movement - BEE In On It! Organizers Of Upcoming Sept.

Clean Air Act

Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

For example, the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act cleared sulfur dioxide and mercury from coal-fired electrical plant air emissions. In the 21 st century new provisions in law and incentives designed to slow climate change have yielded a clean energy and clean vehicles production industry that is generating new jobs.

Earth Day

Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

The Constitution typically empowers (though doesn’t require) Congress to preempt state law in areas where the federal government has and exercises prime authority. It also, of course, violates the core structure of preemption and federalism under the Constitution.

Regulations