Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
This week a state court judge in Georgia issued the first court ruling in the country concluding that power plant developers and state regulators must establish permit limits for CO2 pollution from new coal-fired power plants, based upon "best available control...
Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
The Clean Air Act reserves to "the judgment of the [EPA] Administrator" alone, as a matter of law, the revision of the secondary “public welfare” standard for ozone and other air pollution. This legal standard must be based on what...
Posted by John Walke
The AP's Joe Hebert has written a powerful article on a scandal emerging from EPA in the wake of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously overturning EPA's mercury rules for power plants. The AP article appeared...
Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
On February 8th, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sided with NRDC and a coalition of public health groups, tribes, and states, ruling that EPA had illegally evaded the protective Clean Air Act safeguards requiring deep and timely...
Posted by John Walke in Greening China , Health and the Environment , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
What do Chinese Communist Party air pollution officials share in common with Bush administration air pollution officials?Resort to the rhetoric of “averages” when it comes to obscuring and excusing air pollution.A front page story in today’s Washington Post examines the...
Posted by John Walke in Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
“This is a true story.” -- Opening line in 1957’s film, The Three Faces of Eve.Administrator Steve Johnson's Environmental Protection Agency has a split personality. And obsessive compulsive disorder probably should be added to that diagnosis too.The root cause -- or is...
