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Supreme Court Weighs States’, Refineries’ Appeals Against EPA
The U.S. Supreme Court on March 25 heard two regulatory appeals centering on which courts should have authority to try lawsuits that challenge Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actions. The court first heard EPA v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, followed by a second oral argument in the related cases of Oklahoma v. EPA and PacifiCorp v. EPA, which were consolidated and heard together. The federal Clean Air Act steers challenges to “nationally …
Supreme Court weighs which courts can hear Clean Air Act disputes
The Supreme Court appears poised to keep at least some Clean Air Act disputes in federal courts outside of DC — preventing what at least one justice described as “home court advantage” for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Accountable.US Sounds Alarm on Supreme Court Cases That Threaten to Greenlight Judge Shopping, Weaken Environmental Protections
Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Oklahoma v. EPA (consolidated with PacifiCorp v. EPA) and EPA v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, LLC. These cases pose a major threat to the integrity of the judicial system, and would enable special interest-backed groups to sue the EPA before ideologically-aligned judges and potentially manipulate the outcome of those cases. Both cases involve a key provision of the Clean Air Act, which has lon…
Supreme Court weighs where ‘good neighbor’ pollution lawsuits go
The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to allow challenges to EPA rules on air pollution in local courts across the country, pushing back on an effort from the Trump administration to concentrate the cases in Washington. The oral arguments are connected to the yearslong fight over a Biden administration effort to create a nationwide “good neighbor” plan for state-to-state air pollution under the Clean Air Act. That involved individual state pl…
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