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As Carol Holahan discussed, the 7th Circuit last month affirmed the Illinois zero emission credit program.

By a vote of 5 to 4 late Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court issued a stay of implementation of the Clean Power Plan until pending legal challenges to the CPP are resolved.

On July 11, 2024, the US Department of Justice announced that an oil and gas producer has agreed to pay a $64.5 million penalty to settle allegations of Clean Air Act (CAA) violations.

Perhaps the most well-known source of data used by credit rating agencies, investors, and others to evaluate companies' climate-related performance is the set of reports compiled annually by the Carbon Disclosure Project ("CDP") from responses to CDP's climate change questionnaire.

On September 16, 2016, the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention extended the Chemical Data Reporting 2016 submission deadline from September 30, 2016 to October 31, 2016.

Last Friday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a District Court decision which had refused to impose penalties on ExxonMobil for various violations of the Clean Air Act at ExxonMobil's Baytown refinery.

The Ninth Circuit upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to issue an air permit under the Clean Air Act for the construction of a biomass cogeneration facility at a lumber mill...

On June 15, 2012, U.S. EPA proposed stricter standards to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) under the Clean Air Act for fine particulate matter.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently teamed up to enforce air and energy laws...

Late last month, Federal Judge Rodney Sippel ruled that EPA could obtain injunctive relief against Ameren Missouri in the long-running NSR enforcement case concerning Ameren's Rush Island Plant.

A Massachusetts company learned the hard way that you need to pay close attention to policy endorsements when you negotiate them.

As part of its push to transition the American automotive industry to electric vehicles (EVs), the Biden-Harris administration has proposed two new vehicle pollution standards.

On January 6, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed rule to lower the primary National Ambient Air Quality Standard for fine/inhalable particulate matter

Just days before Californians rejected a ballot measure that would have suspended the state's landmark climate change law, the California Air Resources Board ("CARB") issued a detailed proposal that would create a comprehensive cap-and-trade program and an environmental emission trading scheme, as part of the implementation of A.B.32.

On December 1, the California Air Resources Board ("CARB") issued an Enforcement Advisory stating that it will not enforce California Health & Safety Code § 38533 against covered entities for failing to post and submit their Climate-Related Financial Risk Report under Senate Bill 261 (the Climate-related Financial Risk Act) by the reporting deadline of January 1, 2026.

California lawmakers have launched their first pre-emptive strike to resist potential future actions from the Trump administration to reverse existing environmental protection policies.

California is in the final stages of adopting the latest regulation to impose its own air quality rules upon ocean-going vessels calling in the state.