Reports on the United States Supreme Court's hearing of oral arguments to help it decide if the US Environmental Protection Agency can proceed with 1997 rules to tighten air pollution standards. Issues that the court will tackle; Controversy over the air pollution rules....
States and industry groups had asked the Supreme Court to pause the EPA's rule that aims to curb emissions of methane from new and existing oil and gas facilities.
The Supreme Court has ruled against federal regulators' attempt to limit power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants. The challenge was brought by industry groups and 21 Republican-led states. When the case was argued in March, the court's conservative justices seemed ...
SUPREME COURT DEALS BIDEN CLIMATE AGENDA SERIOUS BLOW WITH EPA DECISION The decision has more far-reaching implications than sending the EPA back to the drawing board, however. As the Court said, "this is a major questions case." What that means is thatmajor questions of public policycan’t ...
If the Supreme Court decides to review a closely watched case concerning EPA’s power plant greenhouse gas rules, its ruling could include key administrative law decisions and provide valuable insight for how the court will approach the changing of rules across administrations, legal experts say. ...
Kevin Minoli is quoted on the potential impact of a Supreme Court case involving San Francisco’s sewage system on the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory authority. 新闻October 15, 2024 E&E News Greenwire| 5 Things to Know About San Francisco’s Supreme Court Fight Against EPA ...
States Fire Back at EPA in Supreme Court Climate CaseMore than two dozen states fired back at the Obama administrationFriday in a Supreme Court case...Siciliano, John
Despite the well-established science of carbon capture and storage, its novelty in the electricity market is certain to attract lawsuits next year when the final rule is issued – which the EPA-skeptical Supreme Court could very well sustain when the case eventually reaches them, likely years lat...
"Under our precedents, this is a major questions case," the Supreme Court said in its majority opinion," stating that the EPA is arguing that the existing law "empowers it to substantially restructure the American energy market[.]" The Court noted that the EPA derived this "newfound power"...
In a closely watched environmental Clean Water Act (CWA) case, the US Supreme Court adopted a far narrower construction of CWA’s definition of “waters of the United States,” functionally shifting significant authority over water-related issues from the federal government to the states. The ...