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The challenge followed a major 2022 ruling by the court imposing limits on the EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act to reduce coal- and gas-fired power plant carbon emissions, undermining ...
Section 202(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act requires the Administrator of the EPA to establish standards "applicable to the emission of any air pollutant from…new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, which in [her] judgment cause, or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare" (emphasis added). [3]
In two other important recent environmental cases at the Supreme Court, the EPA lost both times. In 2022, the court limited the ability of the agency to use the Clean Air Act to combat emissions ...
The Inflation Reduction Act, the budget reconciliation bill signed by President Joe Biden in August 2022, amends the Clean Air Act to allow the EPA to administer $27 billion in grants to green banks nationwide, through a competitive funding mechanism to be called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. On April 4, 2024, the Biden administration ...
In this instance, the EPA's approach "ignored obvious problems with its attempt to twist the Clean Air Act into a system of top-down regulation instead of the system of cooperative federalism that ...
West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, 597 U.S. 697 (2022), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court relating to the Clean Air Act, and the extent to which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can regulate carbon dioxide emissions related to climate change.
MORE: Trump transition live updates: Lee Zeldin picked to lead Environmental Protection Agency ... We will do so while protecting access to clean air and water." ... Nov. 9, 2022. (Justin Lane/EPA ...
The law explicitly defines carbon dioxide as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act to make the Act's EPA enforcement provisions harder to challenge in court, [153] and created a first-of-its-kind green bank, among a wide variety of other provisions to cut pollution. [154]