Nestlé Waters North America, Inc. v. Osceola, Township of
In an unpublished opinion, a state appellate court reversed a lower court decision that ordered a Michigan township to issue a zoning permit to a food and beverage company to construct a well pumping station on agricultural land. The lower court had concluded that the company's proposed pumping stat...
The Clean Air Act, Pigouvian Pricing, and Climate Governance
Two carbon pricing bills were introduced during the 115th Congress. Reps. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) introduced the MARKET CHOICE Act during the summer of 2018. Reps. Ted Deutsch (D-Fla.) and Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) introduced the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (Energy Innovation Act) in November 2018, and reintroduced it early in the 116th Congress, where it presently has more than 65 cosponsors. By different methods and with different comprehensiveness, both of these bills place a Pigouvian tax on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Advanced Biofuels Association v. Environmental Protection Agency
The D.C. Circuit upheld EPA's decision to modify the criteria or lower the threshold by which the Agency determined whether to grant small refineries an exemption from the CAA's Renewable Fuel Program. An industry group argued that the increase in the number of exemptions granted in 2016 and 2017 co...
United States v. Ameren Missouri
A district court granted in part a motion to stay its previous order requiring an electric utility company to obtain a PSD permit to address CAA violations at its coal-fired power plant in Festus, Missouri, and to install air pollution control technology at a neighboring plant in Labadie, Missouri. ...