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Third Circuit rules FAA need not adopt EPA comments on airport expansion

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 20 2012

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) need not adopt U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) comments challenging an FAA air-quality analysis of a planned Philadelphia International Airport expansion

Federal court dismisses CAA aircraft emissions suit against EPA

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 30 2012

A federal court in the District of Columbia has dismissed a lawsuit filed by environmental groups against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), alleging that the agency violated the Clean Air Act (CAA) by failing to determine whether emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG s) and carbon black from aircraft “cause or contribute to dangerous air pollution.”

EU Court of Justice rules U.S. Airlines must be included in European Emissions Trading System

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • January 20 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union (EU ) has ruled that U.S. airlines are included in the EU ’s Emissions Trading System (ETS

Ninth Circuit orders new environmental assessment in airport construction project

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 16 2011

A split Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel has remanded the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) finding of no significant impact in the proposed construction of a new runway at Hillsboro Airport near Portland, Oregon

Second Circuit rules state environmental laws not preempted by federal aviation laws

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 18 2011

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court ruling that federal aviation laws do not preempt Connecticut environmental laws and related municipal ordinances that require an airport to obtain a permit to cut down trees in nearby wetlands

Air: citizen suit alleges Cleveland international airport violated Clean Air Act

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 28 2010

A citizen suit accuses the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport of violating the Clean Air Act (CAA) through its use of deicing fluids and other regulated pollutants