Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA: Greenhouse Gases and Stationary Sources
The State and Local Legal Center has posted a free on-demand webinar on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Environmental Protection Agency’s interpretation of the Clean Air Act.
The court held that the Act neither compels nor permits the EPA to adopt an interpretation of the Clean Air Act requiring a stationary source of pollution to obtain a “Prevention of Significant Deterioration” or Title V permit on the sole basis of its potential greenhouse-gas emission. However, as reported in SCOTUSblog, EPA reasonably interpreted the Clean Air Act to require sources that would need permits based on their emission of conventional pollutants to comply with “best available control technology” for greenhouse gases.
In the webinar, Roger Martella of Sidley Austin and former EPA General Counsel, discusses the implications of Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA for state and local government and how this case may affect EPA regulating greenhouse gases in the future.
