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New-build issues severed and expedited in MATS challenge
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- July 1 2012
June 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted White Stallion Energy Center LLC, Sunflower Electric Power Corp., Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc., Power4Georgians LLC, Deseret Power Electric Cooperative, and Tenaska Trailblazer Partners LLC’s collective motion to sever issues specific to new coal-fired power plants from a host of other complaints covered under their suit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's mercury and air toxics standards
Oral arguments scheduled
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- January 29 2012
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered January 20 that it will hear oral arguments April 13 in cases challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule
States oppose federal implementation plans
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- October 2 2011
Nebraska, Florida, Alabama, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on September 23 claiming that the Environmental Protection Agency inappropriately implemented the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule through federal implementation plans
Ethanol waiver lawsuit
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- April 22 2012
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit questioned industry groups during oral argument April 17 to explain how they were harmed by Environmental Protection Agency waivers allowing gasoline to contain up to 15 percent ethanol, and whether they had standing to bring the challenges
EPA defends GHG findings in court
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- August 21 2011
On August 18, EPA filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit arguing that the agency adhered strictly to Section 202(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act’s guidelines for science-based decision-making in determining that GHG emissions from vehicles endanger public health and the environment
Efficiency standards challenge rejected
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- August 21 2011
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit refused 2-1 August 16 to block a final rule by the Department of Energy setting the first energy efficiency standards for small electric motors
Carmakers support mobile regs
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- October 9 2011
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and Association of Global Automakers said in an amicus brief filed September 30 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that the Environmental Protection Agency is required under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks after it determined that related emissions endanger the public
Lawful to include US airlines in ETS
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- October 9 2011
European Court of Justice Advocate-General Juliane Kokott released a court opinion October 6 that is expected to play an important role in the international policy dispute over whether U.S. airlines will be included in the European Union greenhouse gas emissions trading system: that inclusion of U.S. airlines in the trading program is lawful
Biomass permit exemption challenged
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- August 21 2011
Georgia Forestwatch, Wild Virginia, the Center for Biological Diversity, Conservation Law Foundation, and Natural Resources Council of Maine filed a lawsuit August 15 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, challenging a rule that exempts facilities burning biomass from the requirement to obtain greenhouse gas emissions permits for three years
CA Supreme Court validates Clean Water Act use
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- August 21 2011
The California Supreme Court unanimously held August 15 that regulators did not violate the Clean Water Act by applying a cost-benefit standard to determine whether the Moss Landing Power Plant’s cooling water design reflected the best available technology to protect fish and other aquatic organisms
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