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• November 16, 2018

  Texas Justices Will Hear Pollution Control Tax Break Fight

  The Texas Supreme Court said Friday it would hear a case on whether an electric cooperative that operates heat recovery steam generators in power plants can qualify for a property tax exemption for pollution control, after an appeals court affirmed a state agency’s denial of the credit.

• November 16, 2018

  EPA Board Rebuffs Review For Gas Plants On Native Land

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Appeals Board on Thursday rejected an environmental group’s challenge to agency permits for gas compression facilities on a tribal reservation in Utah, saying the agency was not required to conduct an air quality review before issuing the permits.

• November 16, 2018

  Enviros, Tribes Fight To Save Trump Monument Suits

  Environmental groups and Native American tribes fought back against the federal government’s bid to dodge their lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s decision to shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.

• November 16, 2018

  House Passes Bill Removing Gray Wolf ESA Protections

  The House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that would remove Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf in Wyoming and the Western Great Lakes region and require a federal rule to remove protections for the species nationwide.

• November 16, 2018

  EPA's Renewable Fuels Policy Leads To Court Morass

  Few federal energy and environmental policies are as fiercely fought over in court as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Renewable Fuel Standard program, which requires an increasing amount of renewable fuels to be blended into the U.S. transportation fuel supply. Here's a look at where major RFS-related litigation stands and an update on whether a congressional solution to the legal standoff is in the cards.

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