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Legal Planet
DECEMBER 9, 2021
My last post argued that EPA should immediately repeal the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. It attempted to move away from fossil fuels and toward zero-carbon sources like solar power to supply electricity. The Clean Power Plan was based on section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 28, 2025
On March 24, the US Environmental Protection Agency posted information on how industries regulated under a variety of federal Clean Air Act programs could obtain Presidential Exemptions from those requirements.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 1, 2022
California has a longstanding leadership role on transportation pollution, and the Clean Air Act grants the state the right to set strong vehicle emissions standards. While the waiver addresses California’s ability to enforce its rules, the Clean Air Act also allows other states the ability to adopt California’s policies.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way). Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) projects that 50 percent of US passenger car sales could very well be electric by 2030.
PA Environment Daily
MAY 8, 2024
Although this is appropriate and in keeping with the structure of the Clean Air Act, each of the multi-state RTOs like PJM operate a single dispatch. Resource Links: -- EPA Finalizes Standards To Reduce Pollution From Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants -- Gov. Friel-Otten, Rep. Abney Introduce Gov.
Legal Planet
JUNE 30, 2022
CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. at 528–529. 7411(b)(1)(B); see also §7411(a)(2).
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