EPA has posted regulatory text for its four just-finalized power plant air, climate, water, and waste standards, outlining detailed new requirements for existing coal plants and newly constructed natural gas-fired facilities under several statutes.
EPA has posted regulatory text for its four just-finalized power plant air, climate, water, and waste standards, outlining detailed new requirements for existing coal plants and newly constructed natural gas-fired facilities under several statutes.
Biden administration officials are mounting an early defense of EPA’s four just-finalized air, climate, water, and waste standards for power plants, saying the sector will easily be able to implement them in part because the agency has coordinated their various requirements and added new provisions to preserve grid reliability.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has paused litigation brought by states and industry against the agency’s disapproval of many states’ plans to curb interstate ozone pollution, pending a decision by the Supreme Court on whether to hear challenges to a regional court’s decision to transfer litigation to the D.C. court.
The Biden administration has announced a new national goal to restore and reconnect 8 million acres of wetlands and 100,000 miles of streams and waters in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Sackett ruling, outlining a host of actions agencies are taking within their existing statutory authorities to increase wetlands protections.
The American Lung Association (ALA) in its annual “state of the air” report identifies a worsening trend of wildfire-driven fine particulate matter (PM2.5) across western states, increasing a disparity between poor air quality in the western part of the country and elsewhere, even as overall progress toward reducing ozone levels continues.
The White House Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) final phase 2 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rule appears likely to retain several controversial proposed changes for how agencies implement the bedrock law, measures that will almost certainly drive litigation if the measure is issued in final form, according to a draft final version obtained by Inside EPA.
EPA officials are completing a collection of major regulations -- with a heavy focus on limiting multiple types of pollution from power plants and delineating how the agency will evaluate risks from various chemicals -- as the Biden administration seeks to cement major elements of its first-term agenda.
EPA is expected to release a suite of rules governing various power plant releases, including new greenhouse gas and air toxics emissions standards, as well as new requirements protecting nearby waters from various coal releases. State waste and air regulators are holding separate meetings where EPA officials are slated to speak. And a federal appellate court will hear arguments in biogas producers’ suit against EPA’s renewable fuel standards (RFS) reform rule.
The free-market law firm Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is challenging the Agriculture Department’s (USDA) decades-old Swampbuster wetlands conservation program as a violation of the Constitution’s takings clause, just days after the Supreme Court expanded its test for allowing a taking to cover statutory as well as administrative actions.
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