Reports on the United States Supreme Court decision upholding the authority of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set air pollution standards under the Clean Air Act without consideration for compliance costs. Decision on 'Whitman vs. American Trucking Association'; Reversal of a lower ...
Climate ChangePreemptionClean Air ActOn June 20, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the closely watched case of American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, 131 S. Ct. 2527 (2011) (AEP), in whichMay, JamesSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Supreme Court has agreed to review a case that is likely to have major repercussions on national air pollution policy. The case involves part of the Clean Air Act called new source review. The said provision requires companies, including chemical manufacturers, to install up-to-date pollution ...
clean air actdynamic statutory interpretationtextualismpurosivismjudicial ideologyattitudinal modelideological decisionmakinglaw and economicsWhile public and scholarly concern about ideological decision making in Supreme Court cases has traditionally focused on abortion rights and other constitutionaDriesen, ...
Supreme Court ruled that CO2 meets the CAA's definition of pollutant, and ordered EPA to determine, under the act's mobile source provisions, whether CO2 emissions “endanger” public health or welfare (see Section 202(a)(1)). In 2009, EPA made a formal finding that GHC emissions from ...
Although EPA initially took the position that the Clean Air Act was not structurally suited to the global challenge of greenhouse gas regulation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled inMassachusetts v. EPA[1]that emissions of such gases fit within the plain meaning of the Act's definition of "air ...
MarketWatch| Supreme Court Limits EPA’s Role in Combating Climate Change in a Fresh Jab at the 50-Year-Old Clean Air Act Kevin Minolicommentson how the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court decision inWest Virginia v. EPAcould be blunted by a review of EPA strategy. ...
LeRoy C. Paddock:Yes, there’s one really big issue with the Clean Water Act and another interesting Supreme Court case that also affects the Clean Water Act. So as most people may recall the basic provision of the Clean Water Act is — no one can discharge a pollutant throug...
In 2007, the Supreme Court defined greenhouse gasses as air pollutants under the 1970 Clean Air Act and required the Environmental Protection Agency to develop rules to reduce the generation of these pollutants. This week, President Ba...
the Obama Administration’s “Clean Power Plan” (“CPP”)—a Clean Air Act regulation designed to limit carbon emissions from existing coal-fired power plants (and later revised by the Trump-era “Affordable Clean Energy” (“ACE”) rule)—was struck down by the Supreme Court on June 30,...