Tag: EPA
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Lee Zeldin confirmed as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Lee Zeldin as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Jan. 29, 2025. The Senate voted 56-42 in favor of his nomination with three Democrats and all 53 Republicans voting in favor. This was the seventh member of President Donald Trump’s (R) Cabinet confirmed in his second presidential term. …
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24 Republican attorneys general oppose California’s electric truck regulation
Twenty-four Republican attorneys general sent a letter on Sept. 16 to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asking the agency to block the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Advanced Clean Fleets regulation, which would require fleet owners operating in the state to use electric trucks. The attorneys general argue California’s regulation impacts national transportation industries and…
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Air Force cites Loper Bright in refusal of EPA order
What’s the story? The U.S. Air Force announced in July it would not comply with an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) order to clean polluted drinking water in Tucson, Arizona. The Air Force argued federal regulators did not have the authority to issue the order, citing Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo—the June 2024 SCOTUS case overturning…
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Biden administration issues two new environmental rules
The Biden administration issued new environmental rules in the past month to require climate-related disclosures by certain public companies and to establish air pollution emissions guidelines. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on March 6, 2024, that it had adopted a final rule aimed at establishing standards for climate-related disclosures by certain public companies.…
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Supreme Court limits EPA’s regulatory authority over wetlands
The U.S. Supreme Court on May 25, 2023, unanimously held in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the EPA’s regulatory jurisdiction over the nation’s wetlands is limited. The decision echoes the court’s 2022 ruling in West Virginia v EPA, in which the justices limited the scope of the agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.…