Weekly Cases Update Volume 48, Issue 8

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Volume 48, Issue 17

ELR 2009118-8027, -8029(10th Cir., )

The Tenth Circuit refused to stay pending interlocutory appeal a lower court order staying BLM's waste prevention rule, which was issued to reduce the venting, flaring, and leaking of natural gas emissions during oil and gas production activities on onshore federal land.

Keywords:
Greenhouse gases, Judicial review
ELR 2009518-cv-406(S.D.N.Y., )

A district court ordered EPA to issue federal implementation plans fully resolving interstate transport obligations under the CAA's "good neighbor" provision for the 2008 ozone NAAQS. EPA conceded that it missed the deadline to do so under the Act.

Keywords:
Interstate pollution abatement, §126, National ambient air quality standards (NAAQS), §109, Federal implementation plans (FIPs), §110(c)(1)