Court Compels EPA To Regulate Vehicle Pollutants

“it revolves around this section of the Clean Air Act that That basically compels the EPA to regulate dangerous air pollutants, specifically dangerous air pollutants coming out of the tailpipes of cars.”

“the court said, you've got to decide. either the CO2, the greenhouse gases coming out of cars are dangerous or not and if they are dangerous you've got to regulate them.”

“climate change and Massachusetts decided to sue. And it revolves around this section of the Clean Air Act that basically compels the EPA to regulate dangerous air pollutants, specifically dangerous air pollutants coming out of the tailpipes of cars.”

“But what distinguishes Zeldin's EPA is the willingness or eagerness to take on the endangerment”

“danger under the clean air act we don't have to regulate it and this is already in litigation.”

“if it gets to the Supreme Court, if If they get a decision that reverses Massachusetts VEPA, then it will be basically impossible for any future administration to use the Clean Air Act to try to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.”

“regulate greenhouse gas emissions. So they're really trying to handicap the agency.”

“regulate greenhouse gas emissions. So they're really trying to handicap the agency. going into the future and that is a theme that keeps coming up.”

“on vehicles, on airplanes, on stationary sources to basically regulate the environment. out of existence in many cases a lot of forms of segments of our economy and it costs Americans a lot of money.”