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14 Jan 2013, 2:01 pm by WIMS
EPA can team up with the states and use the Clean Air Act to cut carbon pollution by 26 percent by 2020 from existing power plants [See WIMS 12/5/12]. [read post]
27 Apr 2009, 8:16 am
The greenhouse gases that are responsible for it endanger public health and welfare within the meaning of the Clean Air Act. [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 9:07 pm by Tyler Hoguet
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 Nov 2018, 9:30 pm by Bobby Chen
” 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]
18 Mar 2021, 9:03 pm by Max Masuda-Farkas
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]
29 Jul 2021, 9:03 pm by Katelynn Catalano
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]
13 Dec 2009, 8:58 pm by smtaber
December 14, 2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week. [read post]
28 Nov 2022, 9:47 am by Andria So
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]
8 Oct 2009, 3:59 pm by David Doniger
  The bill tailors some existing Clean Air Act provisions, but avoids overbroad changes in the House bill. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 1:56 pm by WIMS
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 Apr 2011, 2:08 pm by Pace Law School Library
Ignoring implementation costs of the Clean Air Act: a costly mistake. 7 J.L. [read post]
  (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]
  (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]
3 Mar 2021, 5:01 am by Julia Spiegel
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]