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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.

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

Legal Planet

This legal battle has both a long history and enormous implications for California’s aggressive pollution control and climate change policies.