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CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the CleanAirAct 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. In 2011, in AEP v. at 528–529. We answered no, given the existence of Section 111(d).
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Fossil fuel : Any mineralized formerly organic material extracted from the ground and used in energy production: coal, naturalgas, oil. Greenhouse gas : A group of gases known to be responsible for increasing the “greenhouse effect” - that is, gases that absorb infrared radiation and increase atmospheric density.
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In addition, Coal Industry Petitioners and another set of petitioners with members that included companies in the petroleum, trucking, forest products, and other industries, as well as individuals and nonprofit organizations, filed briefs arguing that EPA could not regulate carbondioxide emissions from existing power plants under Section 111.
EPA’s 2024 Power Plant Rules EPA is required to regulate power plant emissions under Section 111 of the CleanAirAct. EPA that carbondioxide and other greenhouse gases fall within the CleanAirAct’s capacious definition of “air pollutant.” Connecticut , 564 U.S. 410, 426 (2011)).
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