The Clean Air Act (CAA) directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set standards for common air pollutants. When the EPA sets these standards, States must submit a State Implementation Plan (SIP) showing how the...more
The US Supreme Court issued on June 27, 2024 an opinion in Ohio v. EPA staying enforcement of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Federal Implementation Plan (FIP). The FIP sought to impose more stringent...more
The Supreme Court’s day started with the specter of yet another leak of a reproductive rights decision having occurred....more
The Environmental Protection Agency, under the Clean Air Act, requires states to work with the EPA to address the interstate transport of air pollution. Under the “Good Neighbor Plan,” the EPA requires each state to implement...more
The United States Senate Environment & Public Works Committee (“Committee”) held a March 29th hearing titled: The EPA Good Neighbor Rule: Healthier Air for Downwind States (“Hearing”)...more
In a proposed rule signed on February 28, but not yet published in the Federal Register, EPA proposed to significantly expand its current approach to regulating the interstate transport of ozone. Under the so-called “good...more
On Feb. 7, several environmental groups formally notified EPA that they intend to file suit to force EPA to act on 39 overdue state Regional Haze plans and to trigger a countdown to issuance of Federal Implementation Plans...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced in the January 22, 2020 Federal Register that it was proposing to approve revisions to the State of Utah’s plan for addressing regional haze. The proposed...more
As first reported here on December 13th, the Sierra Club and National Parks Conservation sociation (collectively “Sierra Club”) recently filed a Petition for Review (“Petition”) in the United States Court of Appeals for the...more
The Sierra Club and National Parks Conservation Association (collectively “Sierra Club”) filed a Petition for Review (“Petition”) challenging the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) approval of revisions to...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a September 9th news release stating it had approved revisions to the State of Arkansas’s plan for addressing regional haze. Concurrently, the federal agency...more
On Friday, July 15, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit handed the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) a stinging double defeat on its partial disapproval of Texas’ regional haze rule (the...more