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West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency , 597 U.S. 697 (2022), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court relating to the Clean Air Act , and the extent to which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can regulate carbon dioxide emissions related to climate change .
Jul. 1—West Virginia lawmakers and state officials were applauding a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday that limits how the nation's main air pollution laws can be used to reduce power plants ...
(In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Massachusetts v. EPA that the EPA is required to regulate carbon dioxide because it causes climate change, and the Clean Air Act mandates that the agency ...
On June 30, 2022, U.S. Supreme Court rules in West Virginia v. EPA that Congress did not grant the EPA in Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act the authority to devise emissions caps based on the generation shifting approach the Agency took in the Clean Power Plan. West Virginia v. EPA: August 2022
The Supreme Court decided West Virginia v. EPA, limiting the federal agency's ability to regulate power plant emissions. How the WV v EPA Supreme Court decision will impact Georgia power plants
West Virginia et al. v. EPA (request for emergency stay of final Clean Power Plan rule). On September 9, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused to grant Morrisey's request for an emergency stay in the Clean Power Plan.
A Thursday ruling by the Supreme Court significantly curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to restrict emissions from power plants under a 2014 rule, but the agency still retains ...
In West Virginia v. EPA (2022), [23] the Supreme Court held, in a decision by Chief Justice Roberts that the phrase "best system of emission reduction [...] adequately demonstrated" (BSER) in section 111 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7411) did not allow EPA to set emissions standards based on phasing out coal or natural gas, but rather ...