In an order governing further proceedings after the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, the D.C. Circuit accepted EPA’s view that UARG v. EPA did not require EPA to start from scratch to establish a greenhouse gas permitting regime for stationary sources. Instead, the D.C. Circuit ordered EPA to act “as expeditiously as practicable” to rescind Clean Air Act regulations that required Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and Title V permits solely based on a source’s greenhouse gas emissions. The court also ordered EPA to rescind regulations that would have required EPA to consider lowering the greenhouse gas emissions thresholds for permitting and to “consider whether any further revisions to its regulations are appropriate in light of UARG v. EPA.” On April 30, the EPA Administrator signed a direct final rule that authorized rescission of PSD permits upon requests from applicants who demonstrate that they would not have been subject to PSD permitting but for their greenhouse gas emissions. The regulation is also to be published as a proposed rule in case adverse comments are received.

Challenge to EPA endangerment finding and rules concerning regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from stationary and mobile sources.

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Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. EPA - order

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