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Court rejects EPA WI approval challenge

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 19 2011

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied petitions by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club June 16 that challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of revisions to Wisconsin’s Clean Air Act new source review program

ACC challenges EPA GHG rules

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 19 2011

The American Chemistry Council filed a brief June 10 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from mobile and stationary sources

MT denies climate petition

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 19 2011

The Montana Supreme Court denied a petition June 15 from a group of parents on behalf of their children asking it to find that the state was constitutionally required to prevent climate change by regulating greenhouse gas emissions

Briefs claim EPA tailoring rule violates air act

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 26 2011

Twenty-three industry and business groups and nine states, in separate briefs filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, argued that EPA's tailoring rule for greenhouse gas emissions for large stationary sources violates the Clean Air Act and should be eliminated

Supreme Court declines climate change law suit

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 26 2011

In an 8-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling on June 20 declaring that a group of states and conservation groups must work through the EPA and not through the federal courts, to achieve greenhouse gas reductions

Boiler MACT challenged

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 8 2011

Thirteen industry groups that recently petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to delay implementation of rules requiring industrial boilers and incinerators to control pollutant emissions filed lawsuits April 29 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging the rules

Youth file public trust lawsuit

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 8 2011

A group of young environmentalists filed a lawsuit (Loorz v. Jackson) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California May 4 contending that the atmosphere is a public trust resource and, as such, the federal government has a fiduciary duty to protect it

NC certification authority upheld

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 8 2011

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled May 3 that a North Carolina regulatory dispute that delayed the effective date of a Clean Water Act compliance certification for a power company did not negate the state’s certification authority

Supreme Court asked to review appellate MACT requirement ruling

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 8 2011

Sandy Creek Energy Associates asked the U.S. Supreme Court last week to allow continued construction of a $2 billion coal-fired power plant outside Waco, Texas

Circuit court dismisses CA waiver appeal

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2011

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed for lack of standing April 29 a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Automobile Dealers Association seeking reversal of a 2009 waiver from federal preemption under the Clean Air Act granted by the Environmental Protection Agency, which allowed California and other states to impose GHG limits on cars and light trucks