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March 20, 2018
EPA's Regional Haze Rule Upheld By DC Circ.
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's move to incorporate its Cross-State Air Pollution Rule into regional haze regulations, a blow to green groups that challenged it as insufficiently protective and power industry groups that said it improperly wiped out states' older pollution control plans.
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November 16, 2017
States, Enviro Groups Slam EPA Emissions Rule At DC Circ.
Conservation, industry and state groups told a D.C. Circuit panel Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency acted unlawfully and arbitrarily when it decided to allow emissions trading to be used to meet regional haze reduction targets, rather than requiring pollution sources like power plants to install pollution reduction technologies.
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September 29, 2017
Upcoming Oral Arguments Energy Attys Should Watch
This fall, lawyers will be making their in-person pitches to federal appeals courts in cases covering a host of important energy issues, from the U.S. Department of Energy's approval of liquefied natural gas exports to implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency's rule clamping down on cross-state air pollution. Here are five noteworthy energy cases in which oral arguments are expected in the coming weeks.
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February 28, 2017
EPA Faces Final Shots Over Air Pollution Rule Compliance
Challengers of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rule incorporating its Cross-State Air Pollution Rule into its regional haze regulations took their final swings in the D.C. Circuit Monday, with environmentalists blasting compliance workarounds for coal-fired power plants and states and industry groups criticizing the agency's elimination of previous haze plans.
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September 21, 2016
EPA Rule Can't Replace Pollution Controls, Enviros Say
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wrongly concluded that aging, coal-fired power plants could use the emissions trading program in the agency's Cross State Air Pollution Rule to comply with regional haze requirements instead of installing additional pollution controls, environmental groups told the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday.