Environmental Protection
Impact of EPA’s Clean Power Plan on States
CAC Chief Counsel Brianne Gorod testified before the House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology regarding the Clean Power Plan and the authority conferred on the Environmental Protection Agency by Congress under the Clean Air Act.
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May 29, 2025
CAC Release: Supreme Court Greenlights Railroad Project Despite Risk of Grave Environmental Impacts
WASHINGTON, DC – Following today’s decision at the Supreme Court in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition...
December 10, 2024
RELEASE: Some Justices Seem Skeptical of Most Extreme Arguments Seeking to Limit the Scope of the National Environmental Policy Act
WASHINGTON, DC – Following oral argument at the Supreme Court this morning in Seven County...
U.S. Supreme Court
Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County
In Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, the Supreme Court considered whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires federal agencies to study all the reasonably foreseeable environmental effects of proposed projects before approving them.
May 25, 2023
RELEASE: Court Rewrites Clean Water Act to Protect Private Land Development at the Expense of…Clean Water
WASHINGTON, DC – Following the Supreme Court’s announcement of its decision in Sackett v. EPA,...
January 19, 2023
BLOG: Defending the Environment with Constitutional and Statutory Text and History
This Term, the Supreme Court is considering Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, an important environmental...
June 30, 2022
RELEASE: Supreme Court’s Conservatives Deal Crushing Blow to Ability of Government to Protect the Environment
“Because of this flawed, ideologically tainted ruling, the power of the national government to solve...