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Say what you want about this administration's competence, but there's one area where they are succeeding for now: Scott Pruitt has been the Environmental Protection Agency's administrator for a short five months, and already he has speedily and forcefully upended an unprecedented number of environmental rules, earning a reputation as one of the few Cabinet members to effectively move Trump's deregulatory agenda forward. Pruitt claims that these regulatory rollbacks represent a return to the "rule of law," but he has pursued them in a lawless fashion, cutting corners and ignoring fundamental legal requirements.
The why of the incredibly shrinking airline seat is no mystery, but one judge's outrage over them felt really good. The why of the incredibly shrinking airline seat is no mystery, but one judge's outrage over them felt really good.
Progressively smaller airline seats and progressively larger passengers are a poor match, to which anyone who has taken a commercial flight in recent years can attest. Congress, in April, rejected a bid to prevent airlines from further shrinking airline seats.
A US appeal court on Friday threw out the first-degree murder conviction of a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard sentenced to life in prison in the killings of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad roundabout in 2007. The killings aggravated resentment about the accountability of American security forces during one of the bloodiest periods of the Iraq war.
Health insurers have won powerful allies in a fight over federal subsidies that President Donald Trump has threatened to cancel for millions of people who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act. A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that Democratic state attorneys general favoring the subsidies can join a court case brought by the Republican-led House of Representatives.
President Donald Trump has been making noise again about halting payments to health insurance companies, which are crucial to making Obamacare work. A court decision Tuesday could disarm him.
Nine of the 11 judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued the latest ruling after a ruling by the court in July that the EPA unlawfully tried to delay implementing the Obama-era methane pollution rule. The rule sets limits for greenhouse emissions for the energy industry, and requires companies to identify and fix leaks.
On July 7, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found "unreasonable," and thus threw out, the "verified recycler" exclusion promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in its 2015 revisions to the definition of solid waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act . The court reinstated the "transfer-based" exclusion promulgated by EPA under the Bush Administration.
A federal appeals court in Washington has ruled the head of the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped his authority in trying to delay implementation of a new rule requiring oil and gas companies to monitor and reduce methane leaks. In a split decision Monday, the three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the EPA to move forward with the Obama-era requirement that aims to reduce planet-warming emissions from oil and gas operations.
A federal appeals court in Washington ruled Monday that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped his authority in trying to delay implementation of an Obama administration rule requiring oil and gas companies to monitor and reduce methane leaks. In a split decision, the three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the EPA to move forward with the new requirement that aims to reduce planet-warming emissions from oil and gas operations.
An appeals court Monday struck down the Environmental Protection Agency's 90-day suspension of new emission standards on oil and gas wells, a decision that could set back the Trump administration's broad legal strategy for rolling back Obama-era rules. In a 2-to-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that the EPA had the right to reconsider a 2016 rule limiting methane and smog-forming pollutants emitted by oil and gas wells but could not delay the effective date while it sought to rewrite the regulation.
A federal appeals court in Washington ruled Monday that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped his authority in trying to delay implementation of a new rule requiring oil and gas companies to monitor and reduce methane leaks. In a split decision, the three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the EPA to move forward with the Obama-era requirement that aims to reduce planet-warming emissions from oil and gas operations.
06/27/2017 6208 ORDER #67-Remand: In accordance with the Opinion of the Court of Appeals in April 2017, the Parties shall be governed by the Corrective Statements set forth in pages 5-7 of the accompanying Memorandum Opinion; any objections or comments to the Corrective Statements shall be filed no later than 14 days after the issuance of this Order; no submission shall exceed five pages. Signed by Judge Gladys Kessler on 6/27/17.
American Indian tribes who are still fighting the Dakota Access oil pipeline in court have dropped an appeal of a federal judge's decision that allowed final construction to proceed on the project that is just two weeks from operating commercially. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in early March refused to stop completion of the pipeline based on the claims of Sioux tribes that it threatens water they consider sacred.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in a split decision issued Friday, upheld a lower court's ruling that had blocked a proposed $54 billion merger of Anthem Inc. and Cigna Corp., two of the largest health insurers in the U.S. The U.S. District Court ruled in February that the proposed deal combining the two insurers should not be allowed because it would lead to higher prices for consumers, as VMail reported .
A U.S. appeals court on Friday granted a Trump administration request to put on hold a legal challenge by industry and a group of states to former President Barack Obama's regulations aimed at curbing greenhouse emissions mainly from coal-fired power plants, rules that the Republican president is moving to undo. A 10-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted the request to put the litigation involving the regulations, known as the Clean Power Plan, in abeyance for at least 60 days while the administration plans its next steps.
At the Trump administration's request, a federal appeals court agreed Friday to postpone a ruling on lawsuits challenging Obama-era restrictions on carbon emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency had asked the court to put a hold on the case shortly after President Donald Trump signed an executive order vowing to roll back the Clean Power Plan.
A hearing in Johnson's case was held today in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, insisting that the Debate Commission in collusion with the major parties are violating antitrust law when it comes to "political markets." Electoral politics is like a market, argues Bruce Fein, the lawyer for Gary Johnson and other plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit against the Commission on Presidential Debates , the Republican and Democratic Parties, and 2012 major party candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Yesterday, the Senate voted to end the first ever successful partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee by the so-called "constitutional," "Reid" or "nuclear" option. In other words, democracy was restored because simple majority rule was restored.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday limited the president's power to temporarily fill vacant government posts while nominations are tied up in partisan political fights. The 6-2 ruling said a former top lawyer at the National Labor Relations Board had served in violation of a federal law governing such appointments.