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The Profound Climate Implications of Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA Decision

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Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2022 01:18:14 +0000

This term, alongside a number of cases with the potential for seismic implications, the Supreme Court also took up West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. Though the case caught fewer headlines, it, too, threatened Earth-shifting implications all its own by thrusting into question a critical EPA lever for addressing climate change. Now we have that decision in […]

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Supreme Court Limits EPA Authority to Regulate Power Plant Emissions

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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:13:41 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court has curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) options for limiting emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) from power plants, an important environmental decision that could impact the federal government’s authority to enforce other regulations. The court in a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, on June 30 said the EPA does […]

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SCOTUS Hears Arguments on EPA’s Purview Over Power Plant GHG Emissions

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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:19:31 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on a landmark case that could determine whether the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to broadly interpret the Clean Air Act (CAA) to establish carbon emission standards for coal, oil, and gas–fired power plants. Arguments in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (No. 20-1530) presented to […]

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‘Unseat Pimentel’

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Credit to Author: Jomar Canlas, TMT| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:20:46 +0000

THE Supreme Court (SC) was asked on Wednesday to kick out Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel 3rd from the Senate, saying his participation in the senatorial election in May 2019 was illegal. Lawyer Ferdinand Topacio, in a petition for certiorari, urged the high court to annul the decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) granting Pimentel a […]

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