Submitted by Prof. Julie Kalish of Dartmouth College and her students Barrett Clark, Hirsh Elhence, Clare Hern and Abhi Parajuli.

“The EPeepA has been very busy at the SuPeep Court this year, defending the Peeple’s right to Clean Air.

First, in EPeepA v. EME Homer City Generation, the EPeepA defended their formula forcing upwind states to reduce their pollution and protect the Peeps in downwind states from breathing their dirty air. However, the states and Peeps who control the upwind power plants and factories aren’t moved by the poor asthmatic Peeps who are coughing and using air masks. Indeed, if the SuPeep Court supports the upwind states, we may see more and more Peeps with dirty, black lungs in the Peeple’s graveyard.

Industry Peeps across the country have also banded together to sue EPeepA, to stop them from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources. In Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPeepA, the lead case of six companion cases, the Justices of the SuPeep Court must decide whether the EPeepA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from mobile sources triggers the same authority for stationary sources. If so, may the EPeepA change the statutory emissions standards so ‘Mom & Peep’ businesses will not be regulated? Or must the EPeepA let the Peeple, through their representatives in Congress, make this change?

The EPeepA has also been having a few too many environmental run-ins with BPeep. First was the massive 2010 BPeep oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, where the rig gushed for over 80 days, leaking more than 200 million gallons of crude oil that coated Peeps from Texas to Florida. Now there’s been another BPeep spill in Lake Michigan. The EPeepA has taken charge of this investigation and cleanup in Lake Michigan and is still providing ongoing support, monitoring, and restoration in the Gulf. In short, the EPeepA and others are not happy with BPeep and we wonder when we might be seeing them in court…?”

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