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Nation’s Top Court Limits EPA's Authority in Clean Air Case

The ruling comes as court justices change and as the agency prepares to issue a new carbon reduction strategy

June 30, 2022

In a 6-3 decision, justices said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its authority to set a broad greenhouse gas emissions reduction mandate.

Legal

High Court Hears Consolidated Clean Air Cases

Questions by justices suggest a narrower ruling than what coal companies and Republican-led states are seeking.

Pam McFarland

Tom Ichniowski

March 1, 2022

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Arguments before U.S. Supreme Court pit power companies, EPA and environmental advocates against coal industry interests and several Republican-led states.

Federal Court Throws Out Two Trump-Eased Clean Air Rules

Mary B. Powers

April 6, 2021

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Revoked is one that delayed state mandates to meet landfill GHG emission controls, and another that exempted most stationary pollution sources from protective standards

Environmental Regulation

Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump Clean Air Rule

Pam McFarland

January 20, 2021

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In win for environmental groups, court sends Trump administration Affordable Clean Energy regulation back to EPA for review.

Legal

Cement Makers' Settlement with EPA Includes $1.3M Penalty

Tom Ichniowski

December 4, 2019

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Agreement with Lehigh Cement and Lehigh White also calls for $12 million for pollution-control upgrades at 11 plants including one in New York state.

Legal

Hyundai to Pay $47M to Settle Construction Equipment's Alleged Clean Air Violations

Tom Ichniowski

September 30, 2019

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Government charges that Hyundai nonroad vehicles didn't meet updated emissions standards.

Executive Order Reduces Air Permitting Timeframe for Some Construction

Pam Radtke Russell

April 18, 2018

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The order directs quicker action on air permits in areas that don't meet national standards.

EPA Halts Flexible Permits That Don't Meet Clean Air Act Requirements

September 1, 2010

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced final disapproval of the flexible permit program that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (or TCEQ) submitted for inclusion in its clean-air implementation plan.

Court Upholds EPA on Clean Air

August 28, 2006

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A federal appeals court in Chicago on Aug. 17 ruled for the Environmental Protection Agency in its Clean Air Act lawsuit against Cinergy Corp. Cincinnati, concluding that it is EPA's duty to determine how emission increases trigger the law's new source review requirements.

Citgo Petroleum Settles Federal Clean Air Act Charges with Government

October 6, 2004

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Citgo Petroleum Corp., Houston, will spend $320 million on clean air technologies at five of its refineries in five states to reduce polluting emissions under an Oct. 6 settlement with the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act.