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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. It was not until: 1) California began to aggressively regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles in 2004; the Supreme Court ruled in its landmark Massachusetts v.

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The Legal Complexities of Deregulating Power Plant Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

EPAs efforts to regulate carbon emissions from powerplants have had a tortuous history, and were about to go through another round, with a rule from a Democratic Administration being repealed and replaced by a Trump rule. It does so by again determining, as when setting the new source rules, the best system of emission reduction...