Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Archives - Page 2 of 3

Supreme Court to Judge Smog Rule

June 25, 2013June 27, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Not all of today’s big policy news comes out of President Obama’s climate speech. The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to consider the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, a major plank of Obama’s first-term environmental policy, which has been in limbo since an appeals court ruled it invalid last August, following a ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Biofuel Fraud, Exxon Spill, DuPont MOU

April 1, 2013June 30, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

A US district judge sentenced Jeffrey Gunselman to nearly 16 years in federal prison, $54.9 million in restitution and $175,000 in fines, for defrauding the EPA with a fake biofuel business. Gunselman admitted that his companies Absolute Fuels, Absolute Milling, Ellipse Energy, 21 Investments and YGOG Holdings – of which he was the ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Pollution Rule Setback, Deutsche Bank Penalty

January 25, 2013June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

The US Court of Appeals has dealt a blow for the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. The court denied the Obama administration’s request for a full court review of a August 2012 decision striking down the rule, The Hill said. National Resources Defense Council attorney John Walke said it was a “terrible ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Cross-State Pollution, Gas Price Spike, Bioethanol Anti-Dumping

October 8, 2012June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

The EPA filed a petition in the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which in August ruled 2-1 to suspend the agency’s cross state air pollution rule and ordered it rewritten. The EPA asked the court to rehear the case, arguing that the ruling was inconsistent with the ... Read more »

Court Overturns Cross-State Air Pollution Rule

August 22, 2012August 23, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has overturned an air pollution rule intended to reduce the amount of coal plant emissions that cross state lines, in a decision analysts say could set the regulations back by several years. In a 2-1 decision, the court struck down the ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: E15 Ruling, EU Shipping, US Drought, Strategic Reserve

August 20, 2012June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

The US Appeals Court of the District of Columbia has ruled that gas retailers can offer E15 fuel for cars made in the 2001 model year or later if they follow set EPA guidelines. The American Petroleum Institute has opposed E15, saying that the fuel damages engines and US automakers ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Moratorium on Uranium Mining, CDC on Fracking, CSAPR, Lake Tahoe Restoration

January 9, 2012June 18, 2013 by Leon Walker

The Department of the Interior today is expected to announce a 20-year moratorium on new uranium mining claims in a million-acre buffer zone around the Grand Canyon. The decision is expected to allow existing uranium and other mining operations in the region to continue, but block new claims, the New ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: COP 17 Durban, SolarWorld, Better Buildings Challenge, Boiler MACT

December 5, 2011June 18, 2013 by Leon Walker

Durban: U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres remains hopeful that countries can get past the years of gridlock to reach fresh, binding commitments to GHG reductions, Reuters said. The remarks follow news that China could join legally binding emissions targets after 2020. A researcher from China’s Energy Research Institute in Beijing ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Carbon Rules, Soot Standard, Competing Studies

November 18, 2011June 5, 2013 by Environmental Leader

The EPA said that it will propose twice-delayed rules for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants early next year, Reuters reported. The agency delayed the release of the long-anticipated Clean Air Act rules in June and September amid an onslaught of criticism from Republicans in Congress. A coalition of health, ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: ANWR Drilling Push, Canada Reacts, EV Fire Probe

November 14, 2011 by Environmental Leader

A jobs-related proposal from House Republicans to support new infrastructure spending is dominating by a plan to massively expand offshore oil and gas leasing and open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, The Hill reported. The proposal was announced days after President Obama unveiled a five-year offshore drilling ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Dealers Fight Fuel Rules, Utility MACT Rule, Fracking Disclosure

November 2, 2011November 2, 2011 by Environmental Leader

Auto dealers are fighting the Obama administration’s tough new fuel economy standards, taking the place of car companies that agreed to adopt an average efficiency target of 54 miles per gallon by 2025 after years of resistance, Reuters reported. Dealers are backing a Republican-sponsored bill in the House of Representatives ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Solar Zones, Ozone Hearing, Carbon Tax

October 28, 2011June 5, 2013 by Environmental Leader

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday announced a revised plan to establish solar energy zones in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, Reuters reported. The revised plan reduces the total acreage of solar siting zones to 285,000 acres from 677,000 acres, but provides new financial incentives to companies. In ... Read more »

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