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Federal Court Rules the EPA Can Regulate Sulfur, Nitrogen Emissions
Greentech Media: All Content — The Environmental Protection Agency can regulate emissions after all, a court has ruled. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday reversed its July decision and reinstated the Clean Air Interstate Rule . The EPA implemented the rule in 2005 to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from power plants. The rule also created a cap-and-trade program for companies to buy and sell emissions allowances. States can require companies to participate in the program, or find other ways to force the companies to cut emissions. In July, the court ...

Court reinstates EPA clean-air rule
Environment — ... rule that seeks to cap harmful emissions in Eastern US states, such as the ones spewing out of this oil refinery on the Delaware River. (Michael Bryant/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT) Court reinstates EPA clean-air rule By Eoin O'Carroll | 12.23.08 A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily reinstated a Bush administration rule that sought to cut harmful pollution from power plants and other facilities in the Eastern US. Issued in 2005 and set to take effect on Jan. 1, the Clean Air Interstate Rule permanently capped emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides in 28 ...

Part IV: Skirting the issue
Grist - the Latest from Grist — ... (regulating mercury emissions) and again with the Clean Air Interstate Rule (regulating sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions), though both programs were ultimately struck down by the D.C. Circuit on unrelated grounds. (Note: The D.C. Circuit temporarily reinstated the Clean Air Interstate Rule in December in order to preserve its environmental benefits while the EPA promulgates new rules. However, the court made clear that it still viewed the program as unlawful.) ...

Are emission targets ever really 'science-based'?
Grist - the Latest from Grist — ... initial expectations and when further investment in SO2 emission reduction would yield an estimated societal return-on-investment of 2500 percent. Under the cap-and-trade regulatory regime ...

Obama's cap-and-trade plan
Grist - the Latest from Grist — ... Regarding the claim that cap-and-trade "dramatically reduced acid rain," the reduction was not sufficiently dramatic to actually solve the acid rain problem. Further reductions would yield an estimated societal return-on-investment of 2,500 percent from health and environmental benefits, and yet emission trading creates no incentive for such further reductions even when costs are far below initial expectations. The EPA has been trying for years to institute rules for more stringent acid rain regulations, but under the current cap-and-trade regime the rules cannot be strengthened ...