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Good & Bad Environmental News From the U.S. Supreme Court

Legal Planet

Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. This legal battle has both a long history and enormous implications for California’s aggressive pollution control and climate change policies.

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The Legal Complexities of Deregulating Power Plant Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

It expressly left open whether EPA is strictly limited pollution control measures within the fence-line of individual sources. They also seemed to think that carbon capture was a form of conventional pollution control, removing a pollutant (CO2) from the smokestack.