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Industry Challenges EPA Greenhouse Gas Rules In High Court

2014-02-24 09:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: The Supreme Court is to hear arguments Monday about the Environmental Protection Agency's first-ever greenhouse gas regulations for the biggest polluting facilities. The case focuses on a 3-year-old requirement that companies get permits anytime they construct new plants or modify existing ones that will emit a lot of greenhouse gases. What's In It For U.S. To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions? EPA's supporters and most of its challengers agree this case is narrow in scope; the court's ruling...

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Yes, EPA Has the Power to Stop Climate Change

2014-02-24 03:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Politico: As administrator of the EPA from 2001-03, I served in the administration of President George W. Bush. I may sometimes disagree with his successor on the best way to address climate change as a matter of policy, but I absolutely agree that the EPA has broad authority to issue regulations addressing climate change, including those being challenged by industry groups and their allies in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency, otherwise known as "the greenhouse gas cases,' or...

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Engine And Truck Manufacturers Commit To Working With EPA And NHTSA On Second Phase National Program To Improve Fuel Efficiency And Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

2014-02-24 01:59:17| pollutiononline News Articles

The Obama Administration announced recently that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will again be coordinating their efforts to implement a uniform, second phase national program to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve fuel efficiency from medium and heavy-duty trucks and buses

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Supreme Court takes up challenge to Obama and the EPA

2014-02-23 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Christian Science Monitor: At issue in Mondays oral argument is whether the Environmental Protection Agency usurped legislative power reserved to Congress when EPA officials wrote broad new rules regulating the emission of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Last month, the high court heard argument in a case testing whether President Obama acted properly when he ignored pro forma sessions of the Senate, declared Congress to be in recess, and then used his recess appointment power to unilaterally appoint three members...

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Supreme Court to weigh EPA move to regulate greenhouse gases

2014-02-21 18:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: The Obama administration's drive to regulate greenhouse gases could hit a snag at the Supreme Court next week as industry groups and Republican-led states ask justices to block what they call a "brazen power grab" by the president's environmental regulators. Amid legislative inaction in a deadlocked Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency adopted regulations in 2011 that require new power plants, factories and other such stationary facilities to limit carbon emissions. The agency said...

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