Environmental

Supreme Court Hears Argument on Carbon Pollution Safeguards

Since 2011, polluters have been required to use available controls

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2014. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument about whether carbon pollution limits will continue, under a Clean Air Act safeguard requiring major stationary source polluters to use available control technology.

In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The EPA officially determined in 2009 that carbon pollution endangers…

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