Topic
Emissions
149 published works
Washington Energy Report
New Proposed Air Toxics Rule Would Impose Stringent Emission Limits for All Coal- and Oil-Fired Power Plants
On March 16, 2011, EPA released a new proposed Maximum Achievable Control Technology (“MACT”) standard to limit hazardous air pollutant emissions (also referred to as “toxics”) from all coal- and…
Energy & Environmental Law Blog
Supreme Court Emissions Case
By Greg Russell
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal challenging the ability of a plaintiff to claim that utility carbon dioxide emissions are creating a public nuisance by contributing to…
Land Use Prof Blog
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Nuisance & Global Warming
The U.S. Supreme Court granted cert on Monday to hear American Electric Power Company, Inc. v. Connecticut. The case, on petition from the Second Circuit, was brought by several states against…
Land Use Prof Blog
McAllister on Enforcing Cap and Trade
Lesley K. McAllister (San Diego) has posted Enforcing Cap and Trade: A Tale of Two Programs, from San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law, Vol. 2, 2010 The abstract:The ease of…
International Law Prof Blog
Progress on cutting emissions?
Many of the world's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide filed plans for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 with the United Nations this past week in compliance with the January 31 deadline…
Arkansas Electric Energy Law
Arkansas PSC Staff and Entergy Arkansas Ask For Delay in White Bluff Proceeding
The Arkansas Public Service Commission Staff sought a suspension of the procedural schedule in the Commission's White Bluff docket on December 3. Entergy Arkansas joined in that effort today. The…
Energy & Environmental Law Blog
EPA Announces More Stringent Emissions Limits for Sulfur Dioxide
By Kristin Watt
Climate change is not the end-all-be-all of regulating our air, says EPA. Yesterday, the EPA announced a proposed rule that will change the primary National Ambient Air Quality Standards for…
Ohio Environmental Law Blog
EPA Begins Process of Determining BACT for CO2
U.S. EPA has initiated the process for determining what controls it will require should it finalize its proposal to regulate large industrial sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs). As discussed in a…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
Total emisions approach – accurate but not novel and a flawed basis for policy
As this report on the new studies published in Nature indicates, the global warming problem is and always has been understood to be a matter of the total loadings of…
Washington Energy Report
Obama Orders Reconsideration of EPA’s California Waiver Decision
On Monday, January 26th, President Obama directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to review the agency’s 2007 denial of California’s waiver request, which prevented California and thirteen other states…