The United States Supreme Court denied certiorari to the Energy-Intensive Manufacturers Working Group on Greenhouse Gas Regulation, which sought review of the D.C. Circuit’s order governing further proceedings after the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA. In its April 2015 order, the D.C. Circuit did not vacate EPA’s regulations concerning greenhouse gas permitting for stationary sources in their entirety. Instead, the D.C. Circuit ordered EPA to rescind the portions of the regulations that required permits based solely on a source’s greenhouse gas emissions, but left in place regulations that required sources subject to Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) requirements due to other types of emissions (often referred to as “anyway” sources) to use best available control technology to control greenhouse gas emissions.

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

Energy-Intensive Manufacturers Working Group on Greenhouse Gas Regulation v. EPA

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Supreme Court Declined to Review D.C. Circuit’s Order That Left in Place EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from “Anyway” Sources

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Supreme Court Declined to Review D.C. Circuit’s Order That Left in Place EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from “Anyway” Sources

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