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CleanAirAct. It is significant because if its huge public health benefits and because it has provided the basis for EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. In public health terms, what makes air pollution distinctive is the millions of people exposes to common pollutants such as particulates and smog. Pavley Act.
Because while this decision does still recognize EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, it simultaneously sharply curtails the agency’s ability to do so. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the CleanAirAct. ” Justice Kagan, dissenting.
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Environmental Protection Agency finalized e missions standards for greenhouse gases from power plants under CleanAirAct, Section 111(d). Earlier this year, the U.S. The rule sets pollution limits for existing coal plants and some new gas plants based on carbon capture and sequestration. In West Virginia v.
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EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the CleanAirAct. Our client is Tom Jorling, a former Senate staffer and EPA official who was directly involved in drafting the Act in 1970. (We The court then paused the litigation while EPA revisited the issue.
A: Part of the dispute is about the phrasing of a specific statute, section 111 of the CleanAirAct. The worst case scenario would be a ruling that EPA can’t regulate greenhouse gases at all without express authority from Congress. Q: What are the key legal issues?
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