The high court ruled against the agency in a long-running dispute with Idaho landowners known as Sackett v. EPA. In anopinionauthored by Justice Samuel Alito, the court found that the agency's interpretation of the wetlands covered by the Clean Water Act is "inconsistent" with the law's te...
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 Rules against EPA on Pollution RulesThe Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against Environmental ProtectionAgency pollution rules for power...Siciliano, John
In the June 30 ruling in West Virginia v. EPA, the Court was concerned with an Obama-era regulation called the Clean Power Plan. The EPA felt it had a duty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and drew up rules that would force states to do so. In the process, the agency decided the ...
"Acting well beyond its delegated powers" under the Clean Air Act, the EPA rule "proposes to remake the energy sector in the affected states toward the agency’s preferred ends,'' Republican lawmakers said in a friend-of-the-court brief. ...
states that the plan was cutting air pollution and saving lives in 11 states where it was being enforced and that the high court’s intervention was unwarranted.
Supreme Court has delivered a one-two punch against the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to combat air and water pollution in twin rulings that cloud future EPA regulatory moves, according to legal experts. Article content Article content Rulings last week and in June 2022 constrained ...
E&E News Greenwire| 5 Things to Know About San Francisco’s Supreme Court Fight Against EPA Kevin Minoli is quoted on a Supreme Court case involving a San Francisco wastewater treatment facility. 新闻June 28, 2024 Inside EPA| Court’s Good Neighbor Stay Makes All EPA Rules Vulnerable, Sources...
LOS ANGELES, July 3 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Thursday to limit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actions on greenhouse gases poses another blow to U.S. President Joe Biden's administration's already stalled climate agenda, experts have said. ...
E&E News Greenwire| 5 Things to Know About San Francisco’s Supreme Court Fight Against EPA Kevin Minoli is quoted on a Supreme Court case involving a San Francisco wastewater treatment facility. 新聞June 28, 2024 Inside EPA| Court’s Good Neighbor Stay Makes All EPA Rules Vulnerable, Sources...