EPA’s climate change protections under attack

EPA’s common sense solutions to protect human health and the environment from harmful climate-altering pollution are being attacked in court by some of the largest polluters in our nation.

EDF’s attorneys are working hard to fight back and defend EPA’s critical efforts to address the country’s greenhouse gas pollution.

Oral argument set in legal challenges to EPA’s climate protection policies

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. has scheduled oral argument to hear legal challenges to EPA’s science-based solutions to protect human health and the environment from climate pollution. 

The Court has allocated two days, February 28th and February 29th, to hear argument on the legal challenges. See D.C. Circuit Orders:

• Filed Feb. 8, 2012: 09-1322 [PDF]
• Filed Nov. 2, 2011: 09-1322 [PDF], 10-1073 [PDF], 10-1092 [PDF] and 10-1167 [PDF].

The cases include:

• EPA’s finding that greenhouse gas pollution endangers public health and welfare
• EPA’s clean car standards
• the pre-construction review permit requirement to deploy modern or "best" pollution controls for the greenhouse gases discharged by new large industrial sources
• EPA’s tailoring of the permit requirement to exclude small emitters

The following three-judge panel will hear these cases: Chief Judge David Sentelle and Circuit Judges Judith Rogers and David Tatel.