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Supreme Court Addresses Major Questions Doctrine and EPA’s Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Congressional research report · CRS Report Type LSB · Jul 12, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exceeded its authority under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) in its 2015 emission guidelines for existing fossil fuel-fired power plants, which were based … For example, the Clean Competition Act (S. 4335) would impose a carbon border adjustment on certain carbon-intensive imported and exported goods.

Tax Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (H.R. 5376)

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Aug 10, 2022

Air Act Section 211(o)(1)(H)), as compared with petroleum-based jet fuel. … Qualifying building envelope components would no longer include roofs, but would include air sealing insulation.

Energy Tax Provisions: Overview and Budgetary Cost

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Feb 26, 2024

Qualified properties have a five-year recovery period. … Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-343) ARRA (P.L. 111-5) Credit for plug-in electric vehicles phased out and replaced by the “clean vehicle credit.”

Renewable Energy: Tax Credit, Budget, and Electricity Production Issues

Congressional research report · CRS Report · May 25, 2006

Flynn; and CRS Report RL32787, MTBE in Gasoline: Clean Air and Drinking Water Issues, by James E. McCarthy and Mary Tiemann. Renewable Hydrogen. … The Clean Air Act and Renewable Energy: Opportunities, Barriers, and Options. (NREL/CP-620-29654). 2001. U.S. Department of Interior. Bureau of Land Management. Solar Energy Development Policy.

Comparison of Climate Change Adaptation Provisions in S. 1733 and H.R. 2454

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Nov 12, 2009

Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454) and the Clean Energy, Jobs, and Power Act (S. 1733). … Establishes an account in Treasury to be called Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Account (NRCCAA) to receive proceeds from auction conducted under (new) Sec. 771(b)(7) of Clean Air Act.

Regulating a Carbon Market: Issues Raised By the European Carbon and U.S. Sulfur Dioxide Allowance Markets

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Apr 30, 2008

Sulfur Dioxide Trading Program (Title IV) Background Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments supplements the sulfur dioxide (SO2) command-and-control system of the Clean Air Act (CAA) by limiting … Moore, “Clean Air Act Allowance Trading,” 21 Environmental Law 2021-2068 (1991).

D.C. Circuit Rejects EPA’s Efforts to Ban Hydrofluorocarbons: Part 2

Congressional research report · CRS Report Type LSB · Sep 5, 2017

The majority also highlighted several statutory authorities under the Clean Air Act that could potentially be used to regulate HFCs, including the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) (Section … It is unclear whether these Clean Air Act authorities would be effective paths to regulate and reduce HFC emissions.

Biodiesel Fuel and U.S. Agriculture

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Jul 7, 2003

However, a growing body of environmental regulations and energy security provisions have evolved since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 that have created economic opportunities for producers and users … Public Laws that Support Biodiesel Production and Use Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA; P.L. 101-549).

Climate Change: Federal Laws and Policies Related to Greenhouse Gas Reductions

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Dec 8, 2008

If EPA finds that they do, then EPA would be required under the Clean Air Act to regulate their emission. … Climate Action Report—2006, Washington, DC, July 2007, p. 56. 53 Section 821, 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (P.L. 101-549, 42 USC 7651k).

Carbon Capture Technology Assessment: In Brief

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Nov 5, 2013

EPA proposed the standard under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act.1 According to EPA, new natural gas-fired stationary power plants should be able to meet the proposed standards without additional cost … Air Act.

Global Climate Change: Major Scientific and Policy Issues

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Aug 11, 2006

This included passage of a National Climate Program Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-367). … COP-4, Buenos Aires COP-4 took place in Buenos Aires in November 1998. It had been expected that the remaining issues unresolved in Kyoto would be finalized at this meeting.

Compulsory Licensing of Patented Inventions

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Jan 14, 2014

The Atomic Energy Act, Clean Air Act, and Plant Variety Protection Act provide for compulsory licensing, although these provisions have been used infrequently at best. … ,” 9 Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law (1993-94), 397, 406 (noting that “there Seems to have been no attempts to actually use the compulsory licensing provision” of the Clean Air Act).

Petroleum Coke: Industry and Environmental Issues

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Oct 29, 2013

At the federal level, Clean Air Act (CAA) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for outdoor (ambient) air continue to protect public health and welfare from harmful concentrations of particulate … With the implementation of Clean Air Act regulations, power plants switched from boiler fuel to cleaner burning natural gas.

Free and Reduced-Rate Television Time for Political Candidates

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Jul 7, 1997

Clean Campaign Act of 1989. Hearing, 101st Congress, 1st session, on S. 999. July 19, 1989. Washington, G.P.O., 1989. 101 p. … S. 334, Clean Campaign Act of 1993, S. 329, Campaign Advertising and Disclosure Act of 1993, and S. 829, Campaign Advertising Accountability Act of 1993. Hearing, 103d Congress, 1st session.

The Supreme Court Takes a Global Warming Case: Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. EPA

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Jul 12, 2006

Circuit rejected 2-1 a challenge to EPA’s denial of a petition under the Clean Air Act requesting the agency to limit four pollutants emitted by new motor vehicles, owing to their alleged contribution … Circuit rejected a challenge to EPA’s denial of a rulemaking petition under the Clean Air Act (CAA).

U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Transformation and Effects

Congressional research report · CRS In Focus · Dec 3, 2018

(For example, the Clean Water Act regulates surface discharges of water associated with natural gas drilling and production as well as contaminated storm water runoff from production sites; the Safe Drinking … fuel; and the Clean Air Act limits emissions from associated engines and gas processing equipment as well as some natural gas extraction, production, and processing activities.)

Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Siting: FERC Policy and Issues for Congress

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Jun 9, 2022

Issuance of the draft EIS also begins a public comment period of at least 45 days, during which FERC is to hold public meetings in the proposed project area.29 After the conclusion of the comment period … Likewise, they would not amend other federal statutes, such as the Clean Water Act or the Clean Air Act, which also may have a bearing on gas pipeline siting approval.

Injection and Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide: Federal Role and Issues for Congress

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Sep 22, 2022

Clean Air Act Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program In the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (P.L. 110-161), Congress provided $3.5 million for EPA to promulgate a greenhouse gas reporting rule that would … EPA promulgated the GHGRP under the authority in Clean Air Act Sections 114 and 208. 81 Clean Air Act §114 (for stationary sources) and §208 (for mobile sources). 82 U.S.

Attaching a Price to Greenhouse Gas Emissions with a Carbon Tax or Emissions Fee: Considerations and Potential Impacts

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Mar 22, 2019

The 1987 Montreal Protocol, implemented in the United States by the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, is phasing out ozone-depleting substances, such as chlorofluorocarbons. … EPA has regulated some uses of HFC under the Clean Air Act, but certain limits have been struck down in litigation.

Side-by-Side Comparison of Energy Tax Provisions of H.R. 6899 and S. 3478

Congressional research report · CRS Report · Sep 18, 2008

Provision Current Law Senate Bill S. 3478 House Bill H.R. 6899 Comments Clean Renewable Energy Bonds State and local governments may issue clean renewable energy bonds (“CREBS”) in order to finance … In order to qualify for the $1.00/gallon tax credits, the fuel must meet EPA’s requirements for fuels and fuels additives under §211 of the Clean Air Act, and the requirements of the ASTM D975 and D396