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On Wednesday, EPA issued a final rule amending its "Regional Consistency Regulations."

"Never have the stakes been so high because this is about the future of the planet, the future of life" notes French President Francois Hollande with respect to the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties.

The D.C. Circuit held that the Environmental Protection Agency could not create an affirmative defense to private citizen suits under the Clean Air Act.

For over a decade, VW's been working on an automotive holy grail—the "1-liter" car. It's a vehicle that can travel 100 kilometers (62 miles) using just 1 liter of fuel (0.26 gallons). This comes out to an astonishing 235 mpg.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) proceeded today with the inaugural carbon allowance auction for its impending "cap-and-trade" greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regulation program, despite a lawsuit filed yesterday by the California Chamber of Commerce to challenge CARB’s auction authority.

California, the world's seventh largest economy, has already established objectives for reducing GHG emissions in both the short term (1990 emission levels by 2020) and the long term (80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050).

At California’s inaugural auction of greenhouse gas allowances last week, bidders bought all 23.1 million allowances for 2013 emissions sold at $10.09 per ton, a few significant cents above the floor price of $10.

The Daily Environment Report last week provided an update on the current status of EPA’s development of a new National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone.

China presents foreign manufacturers with many paradoxes.

Yesterday, Judge Paul Diamond dismissed climate litigation brought by the Clean Air Council and two minor plaintiffs. Like the Juliana case in Oregon, the plaintiffs argued that the government

On December 13, the District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed plaintiffs’ challenge in Food and Water Watch v. EPA to the Chesapeake Bay TMDL’s discussion of pollution trading and offsets.

Yesterday, EPA announced that it was granting the petition submitted by New Jersey under § 126 of the Clean Air Act, requiring the Portland Generating Station in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, to reduce emissions of SO2, in order to avoid causing exceedances of the NAAQS for SO2 downwind in New Jersey.

As we have noted previously, EPA has had difficulty in promulgating a revised National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone.

The case is pretty simple and the outcome should not be a surprise. BLM based its postponement of the compliance deadlines on § 705 of the APA...

On August 21, 2012, two judges on a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued an opinion1 vacating the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), a complex rule designed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) from multiple power plants across 28 states.

To DEP's credit, they are working hard, determined to get draft regulations out by mid-December.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for Northern Pass Transmission...

The California Environmental Protection Agency directs some of the most important environmental agencies in the state.