2012 Clean Air Act Government Regulations 
Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2024
Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. None of these apply to the new car rule: The new rule is based on a legal provision that EPA has applied for decades to regulate cars, rather than an obscure and rarely used legal provision. 175 of the pre-Fed.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The PUC was under no obligation to evaluate an energy project conceived of in 2012 the same way in 2022. This doctrine holds that the government has a special duty to consider the public interest when it makes decisions about key resources. Indeed, doing so would have betrayed its constitutional duty.” Lawsuits against oil companies.
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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
JUNE 14, 2023
Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2022, installed wind and solar power more than tripled , according to American Clean Power. In 2012, coal generated 37 percent of US electricity. EN: These standards—or at least something based on the same Clean Air Act provision—have been in the works for a long time.
Columbia Climate Law
DECEMBER 2, 2019
On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”). By Romany Webb. That is not always the case, however.
Legal Planet
MARCH 14, 2023
Images of enraged residents shouting at company executives and government officials about the inadequacy of the response remind us all that across our vast industrial economy accidents of one sort or another are always waiting to happen while private firms and the agencies that are supposed to regulate them are too often asleep at the switch.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so. How has Paxton responded?
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