The case involves emissions requirements for coal-fired power plants first issued by the EPA in 2012.
But in recent weeks the Supreme Court has been asked to intervene in early stages of cases challenging new EPA rules and opted not to do so. Earlier this month, itdeclined to pausea new measure that set more stringent standards on emissions of mercury and other toxic metals from coal-...
Supreme Court held recently that carbon dioxide and other gases linked to global warming are "air pollutants" that are within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) power to control under the Clean Air Act, and that the U.S. government has the authority to regulate them. The ...
In the 6-3 decision that was narrowly tailored to the Environmental Protection Agency, the court ruled Thursday that the EPA does not have broad authority to reduce power plant emissions that contribute to global warming. The precedent is widely expected to invite chall...
EPA to propose 30 percent reduction in power plant carbon emissions The rules began to take effect in April, but the court said in a 5-4 vote Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency failed to take their cost into account when the agency first decided to regulate the toxic emissions ...
In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court has limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
"The U.S. Supreme Court anti-EPA climate change action is, to say the least, counterproductive and wrong headed," Roy Morrison, solar energy developer and managing partner of Renewable Sun Partners, told Xinhua.■
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.
which capped carbon dioxide emissions based on generation-shifting measures, which the EPA identified as a "best system of emission reduction" under a provision of the Clean Air Act. The Supreme Court in June 2022 found that the EPAdid not have the authorityto implement such a regulatory scheme...
The Supreme Court decision has prevented the EPA from enforcing its "good neighbor" rule, which aims to limit air pollution emissions from out-of-state sources affecting downwind states. The rule targets smokestack emissions from power plants and industrial sources that contribute to smog-causing po...