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11 Feb 2024, 8:17 pm
The most important of these interventions was the Clean Air Act of 1963, which served as the first federal legislation addressing air quality concerns. [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 9:07 pm
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to exercise broad emergency powers under § 303 of the Clean Air Act to regulate toxic airborne microplastics, known as PFAS. [read post]
22 Jun 2023, 6:19 am
The federal Clean Air Act has had a standard for air pollution since 1979, and some Texas cities have never met a Clean Air Act standard for ozone. [read post]
3 Apr 2023, 7:53 am
EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. [read post]
6 Mar 2023, 6:51 pm
The rule issues under the Clean Air Act’s “Good Neighbor Provision,” which requires upwind states to prevent air pollutant emissions from contributing significantly to downwind states’ “nonattainment” of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. [read post]
28 Nov 2022, 9:47 am
For the climate change cases in particular, the hope is that federal courts will be more amenable to the arguments grounded in federal law; for example that these cases, although brought under state law, are preempted by either a so-called federal common law, which largely no longer exists, or the Clean Air Act. [read post]
5 Aug 2022, 5:01 am
According to Kagan, the relevant provision of the Clean Air Act “enables EPA to base emissions limits for existing stationary sources on the ‘best system. [read post]
11 Aug 2021, 2:00 pm
Environmental Protection Agency to implement Federal Clean Air Act Greenville Rancheria health and tribal offices destroyed by Dixie Fire Indigenous communities are still fighting for the return of their ancestors NDN Collective sends memo re: Link between Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives, climate crisis to Biden administration Is travel next in the fight over who profits from Native American culture? [read post]
29 Jul 2021, 9:03 pm
In a joint policy brief issued by the Center for Progressive Reform, Earthjustice, and the Union of Concerned Scientists, David Flores, senior policy analyst at the Center for Progressive Reform, and multiple coauthors argued that EPA should strengthen the Clean Air Act’s Risk Management Program to prevent “double disasters. [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 3:00 am
(2) Does the Federal Power Act preempt state court challenges to an environmental impact report prepared under the California Environmental Quality Act in order to comply with the federal water quality certification under the federal Clean Water Act? [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 3:00 am
(2) Does the Federal Power Act preempt state court challenges to an environmental impact report prepared under the California Environmental Quality Act in order to comply with the federal water quality certification under the federal Clean Water Act? [read post]
18 Mar 2021, 9:03 pm
The Clean Air Act’s “good neighbor” provision requires EPA to mitigate the effects of air pollution from sources such as nitrogen oxide emissions that can travel downwind from state to state. [read post]
3 Mar 2021, 5:01 am
In that case, a slim majority of the Supreme Court held that Massachusetts and several other states were correct in asserting that the Environmental Protection Agency was required to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act and that the agency was unjustified in delaying its decision to do so—a significant climate change win for the litigating states. [read post]
22 Nov 2018, 9:30 pm
” WHAT WE’RE READING THIS WEEK Amending the Clean Air Act has become increasingly difficult due to complex regulations and partisan politics, wrote Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and Robert N. [read post]
7 Aug 2017, 9:30 pm
Through the Clean Air Act, Congress has tasked the U.S. [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 5:02 pm
Earth Day started as a movement, which created public support for the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and contributed to the passage of the Clean Air Act and several other environmental laws. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 8:27 am
Senator Landrieu Bashes New Clean Air Act Protections While Visiting the Largest Source of Illegal Air Pollution in Louisiana - Devin Martin, with Sierra Club in Louisiana U.S. [read post]
20 Sep 2013, 12:53 pm
Furthermore, we continue to believe that the Clean Air Act is not the appropriate vehicle to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. . ." [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 1:56 pm
Asthma rates have doubled in the past 30 years and our children will suffer more asthma attacks as air pollution gets worse. [read post]
13 Feb 2013, 12:30 pm
Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods -- all are now more frequent and more intense. [read post]
