Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

All the participating jurisdictions are members of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), a regional collaboration of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia that seeks to improve transportation, develop the clean energy economy, and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

District of Columbia 262

District of Columbia DC Transportation Rhode Island 262

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Manhattan, asks the Court to order the EPA to adopt new air pollution standards promptly and by a date certain. The EPA has not taken action in response to the coalition's notice, leading Schneiderman and his coalition to take the latest legal action.

EPA 231

EPA Rhode Island District of Columbia New York 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held in a 2-1 opinion that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had overstepped its authority with the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), and, as a result, vacated the regulation (USCA Case #11-1302). Second, the Clean Air Act affords.

EPA 236

EPA Pollution Congress District of Columbia 236