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Seven County Infrastructure Coal. v. Eagle Cnty., Colo. – Supreme Court's "Course Correction" on NEPA Already Steering Decisions...

Baker Donelson on 7/29/2025

The United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, on May 19, 2025, clarifying that the scope of judicial review of federal agency environmental...more

U.S. Supreme Court Rejected Challenge to EPA Efforts to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Goldberg Segalla on 10/17/2024

On October 16, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an attempt to block the implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s latest effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from power plants while the EPA is being...more

This Week's Climate Policy Update - September 2024

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 9/18/2024

Good morning! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and hearings...more

Greenhouse Gas Standards/Guidelines for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants: U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 11/16/2023

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair, along with two Subcommittee Chairs, sent a November 13th letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator Michael S. Regan...more

GHG Standards for the Power Sector: Is Third Time the Charm or Is It Déjà Vu?

Holland & Hart LLP on 5/16/2023

In the third attempt in less than 10 years, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed rule package (“Proposal”) that would apply strict greenhouse gas emissions standards to the fossil fuel-fired power sector. The...more

West Virginia v. EPA: The Forecast is Cloudy for Environmental and Agency Regulation

King & Spalding on 8/2/2022

The United States Supreme Court recently issued its long-awaited opinion in West Virginia v. EPA, significantly restricting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) authority to combat climate change and regulate carbon...more

Supreme Court Rules EPA Cannot Require Existing Fossil Fuel Power Facilities to Shift to Lower CO2 Emitting Sources of Electricity

White & Case LLP on 7/5/2022

On June 30, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot use the Clean Air Act to require fossil fuel power facilities to implement a measure known as "generation shifting" without...more

West Virginia v. EPA Limits the Federal Government’s Power to Promote Clean Energy and Combat Climate Change

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law on 7/5/2022

The Supreme Court decided West Virginia v. EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The...more

Supreme Court Says EPA Went Too Far on Regulating Climate Change

Burr & Forman on 7/1/2022

On June 29, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an arcane portion of the Clean Air Act (“CAA”), infrequently used by the EPA, could not serve as appropriate delegation of legislative authority to regulate greenhouse gas....more

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