Clean Air Act Law Natural Resources 
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
The Supreme Court tends to get all the attention, but for every Supreme Court opinion on environmental law there are probably fifty opinions in the lower federal courts. Collectively, the lower courts have done fat least as much to shape the law than the Supreme Courts occasional interventions. Natural Resources Defense Council v.
Legal Planet
JUNE 27, 2024
In choosing the top environmental laws, I wanted to focus on those with the largest impacts on the environment, not just those that are most important to environmental lawyers or best known. I included all laws passed in the U.S., not just federal regulatory laws, and some of my selections may not be what you expected.
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Legal Planet
JANUARY 30, 2023
In the previous three years, Congress had passed NEPA, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. Continuing the legislative wave, 1973 saw the passage of the Endangered Species Act (ESA. One subject stood outside the political turmoil: environmental law. In another notable case, the D.C.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 1, 2024
This decision , reached with a 6-3 majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts, marks a significant shift in administrative law and has profound implications for environmental regulations and climate accountability. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., This deference allowed agencies (e.g., Raimondo and Relentless, Inc.
Environment, Law, and History
MAY 6, 2022
Melosi, Carolyn Merchant, Roderick Nash, Adam Rome, and Paul Sutter, among many others—Coodley and Sarasohn offer here an exhaustive play-by-play account of the legislative battles between 1964 and 1976 that led to the passage of some of the most important environmental laws in the United States.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 27, 2021
By Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council This article first appeared on the NRDC Blog July 21, 2021 -- The U.S. And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 24, 2022
Fact: The PA Supreme Court issued a decision in 2013 declaring a similar provision in the Act 13 state law regulating oil and gas drilling unconstitutional. Read more here. House and Senate Republicans have been opposed to the regulations since Gov. Wolf announced the initiative in 2019. Read more here.
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