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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation. The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. In 2010, U.S. Download as PDF
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
On the domestic front, the head of EPA managed to maneuver the Administration into endorsing federal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Republican victories in the 2010 off-year election ended any chance of legislation. Barack Obama’s embrace of climate action.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 31, 2023
In recent years, the RMP has been subject to a political tug-of-war: partially strengthened under the Obama administration and then promptly rolled back under the Trump administration. Furthermore, the proposal does not require all facilities regulated under the RMP to conduct safer technology and alternatives analyses.
Law Columbia
MARCH 13, 2023
EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. This blog post summarizes the history of federal vehicle emissions regulations, the arguments made by Petitioners in Texas v. The brief is available here.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window.
Corp Watch
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
For example in 2009 and 2010, Toyota recalled over 10 million vehicles over unintended acceleration problems and in 2016, Toyota recalled 1.4 million yuan over Lexus price-fixing Reuters | December 27, 2019 China's market regulator on Friday has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor 7203.T China fines Toyota 87.6 million yuan ($12.5
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders. EPA , the decision in which the Supreme Court rejected EPA’s arguments for not treating greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. These points are largely undisputed.
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