November 02, 2012
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency escaped immediate legal pressure to study pollution from airplane and ship emissions after a Washington federal court judge on Thursday rejected a request from environmental groups that he reconsider their Clean Air Act suit against the agency.
June 18, 2012
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will not commit to any rulemaking that would control the emission of greenhouse gases from aircraft and ships, it said Thursday, despite environmental groups' insistence that nonroad vehicles' emissions need to be curbed.
March 21, 2012
A Washington, D.C. federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the remaining claims of a Clean Air Act suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ruling that a coalition of environmental organizations did not show the agency resisted determining the effect of aircraft emissions on air quality.
March 14, 2012
A Washington federal judge declined Wednesday to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to study airplane engine emissions, saying the agency properly focused on bigger pollution sources first despite an environmental group's claim that the regulator is dragging its feet.
July 05, 2011
A federal judge in the District of Columbia on Tuesday stripped claims from a lawsuit accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of improperly failing to determine whether greenhouse gas emissions from marine, air and other nonroad engines contribute to dangerous air pollution.
April 11, 2011
Aviation and aerospace organizations lost a bid Monday to intervene in a suit accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of delaying action on petitions over the dangers of greenhouse gas emissions from marine, air and other nonroad engines.