EPA and the Sierra Club have reached a draft partial consent decree that sets a March 2020 deadline for the agency to complete a long-overdue study to determine if its renewable fuel standard (RFS) has harmed the environment, in a case seen as an important test of former Administrator ...
EPA retains the authority to enforce violations within Oregon. EPA’s involvement often results in the establishment of a federally enforceable timeline, in the form of a court order Consent Decree – with which the City of Sandy has now agreed – to comply with federal environmental laws. ...
Source:Prepared by the Congressional Research Service based on EPA's final designations for the 2013 PM2.5revised annual NAAQS, with data compiled from EPA's website for prior PM NAAQS final designations,http://www.epa.gov/pmdesignations/. Notes:Partial counties are shown on the map as whol...
The settlement would resolve a claim by the Sierra Club that the EPA has not carried out a nondiscretionary duty under the Clean Air Act to promulgate an adequate federal plan for Texas (Sierra Club v. EPA, D.D.C., No. 1:10-cv-1541, partial consent decree filed 7/27/15).Patrick ...