During the early 1970s, the air in many American cities was … brown. Pollution muddied clear skies and sickened people across the country. The Clean Air Act helped change that. But the law's future is ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether federal law, including the Clean Air Act, preempts state-law tort claims brought by local ...

The lawyers who successfully won the law’s climate authority once thought of it as a placeholder for stronger legislation. Three presidents have used the Clean Air Act to curb planet-warming pollution ...

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Members of Congress from Texas and Wyoming introduced bills recently that would grant fossil fuel companies sweeping legal immunity and shield energy producers from stricter compliance with the Clean ...

Section 112 enables the president to exempt any stationary source of air pollution from any CAA regulation for two years if he or she “determines that the technology to implement such standard is not ...

In what should have been its sweetest day of the year, this past Halloween, the Hershey Creamery Co. pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act. In what should have been its sweetest day of the ...

The Clean Air Act’s outdated framework is hindering progress. New bills aim to modernize it with reforms aligned to today’s economic, environmental, and scientific realities. The Clean Air Act (CAA) ...

In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering ...

US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed allowing construction to begin on non-emitting components or structures for power generation, data centers and manufacturing under the federal new ...

EPA on Monday laid out a way for companies to avoid air pollution regulations for up to several years: Just send the agency a request via email. The agency posted guidance online that lays out a path ...

Trump wants to roll back environmental protections at least to where they stood prior to the 1970 Clean Air Act. (Courtesy of the National Wildlife Federation) In March, Environmental Protection ...