The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals gave a big win to the EPA when it upheld a Biden-era ozone ruling affecting Louisiana and Texas, but there was also a set-back for the EPA when the Court both upheld the ability of such...more
The Tenth Circuit United States Court of Appeals (“Court”) addressed in a September 18th Opinion a petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity (“Center”) alleging that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...more
The United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit (“Eighth Circuit”) issued an Order on April 25th denying the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) Motion to Transfer the State of Arkansas’s petition...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
Major sources of air pollution must obtain a Clean Air Act Title V permit under their state’s EPA- approved implementation plan. Permits, of course, can be challenged. By petition to the EPA Administrator, the Sierra Club...more
Earlier this month, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed EPA’s disapproval of the Texas and Oklahoma regional haze state implementation plans, as well as EPA’s promulgation of its own federal implementation plan. The...more