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Mercury decision boosts bid to kill climate rule – EPA foes
Posted by Greenwire: Robin Bravender on December 17th, 2015
Greenwire: U.S. EPA critics were dismayed as federal judges this week kept intact a major Obama administration rule to slash mercury emissions from power plants, but others saw a silver lining.
Having the mercury rule in place, they say, bolsters their arguments against another major rule, EPA's Clean Power Plan.
In the litigation over that landmark rule to limit power plants' greenhouse gas emissions, a central argument made by EPA's critics is that the agency lacks authority to issue the climate rule...
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Judges rule study not needed for oil sands project
Posted by Greenwire: Robin Bravender on September 29th, 2015
Greenwire: Federal judges today denied environmentalists' challenge to a 600-mile pipeline carrying oil sands crude from Illinois to Oklahoma.
Attorneys from the Sierra Club and National Wildlife Federation told the court that the government should have conducted more thorough environmental assessments of Enbridge Inc.'s Flanagan South pipeline, but the three-judge appeals panel today rejected their argument.
Central to environmentalists' case was their contention that the government should have analyzed...