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D.C. Circuit remands the EPA's fine particle rule

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 16 2009

On Feb. 24, 2009, in American Farm Bureau v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 06-1410, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the most recent version of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2006 were contrary to law and unsupported by reasoned decisionmaking

EPA proposes rule on mandatory GHG reporting

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2009

On Mar. 10, EPA announced a proposed rule in response to the FY2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 2764; Public Law 110161) that requires mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from large sources in the United States

Dodging the bullet: advice to facilities whose emissions may be under the reporting threshold of EPA's proposed mandatory GHG inventory reporting regulations

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 30 2009

EPA is proposing a rule to require mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States (the "Proposed GHG Rule"

USEPA announces greenhouse gas endangerment finding

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 8 2009

In response to the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Massachusetts, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al, 127 S.Ct. 1938 (2007), yesterday USEPA announced its finding, long anticipated, that greenhouse gases threaten the public health and welfare of the American people

The Copenhagen Accord and COP-15: Brokenhagen or some version of Hopenhagen?

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • December 28 2009

The Copenhagen Accord, negotiated by only five countries and outside of the UN process, lays out the high-level agreements in principle of the largest emitters that are not party to the Kyoto Protocol: China, the United States, and India

Turning your GHG emission reductions into an asset

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 12 2010

In what was likely the biggest international environmental event of 2009, the United Nations climate conference occurred December 7-18 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Climate change legislation is dead. long live climate change regulation!

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 29 2010

Although an energy bill is now on the Senate floor, it is limited to energy conservation and issues related to the oil spill

Pennsylvania Supreme Court upholds Commonwealth Court decision, overturning Pennsylvania Mercury Rule

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 28 2009

On December 23, 2009, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a decision in PPL Generation v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Who's in accord with the Copenhagen Accord - and what does it mean?

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • February 9 2010

January 31, 2010 marked the official deadline for parties to the Copenhagen Accord to submit their respective plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions

EPA proposes transport rule to replace CAIR: new rule governs air emission from utilities only

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 14 2010

In two previous Client Alerts, we have reported the vacation of the Clean Air Interstate Rule ("CAIR") by the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia in North Carolina v EPA, 531 F3d 896 (2008) (North Carolina I) and CAIR's subsequent, temporary resuscitation by the Circuit Court, North Carolina v EPA, 550 F3d 1176 (2008) (North Carolina II), pending the drafting of a replacement rule by EPA