2023 Clean Air Act Climate Change Fossil Fuels 
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
In 2023, the court issued two major decisions relating to climate change. The PUC rejected the project even though it would produce fewer emissions than fossil fuels. In upholding the PUC, the court said that the commission was “charged with protecting the right to a life-sustaining climate system.”
Legal Planet
MAY 11, 2023
In the year 2023, the U.S. The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. So, EPA and the states have a shared responsibility to regulate “existing sources” — primarily power plants— under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act.
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Corp Watch
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. The Ogoni say that Shell was behind the hanging of nine Ogoni activists fighting Shell, including poet Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Law and Environment
MAY 12, 2023
After weeks of hints and leaks, yesterday morning (May 11, 2023), EPA proposed a new rule regulating emissions from power plants. It was the at the core of the previous challenge to President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which the Supreme Court rejected in West Virginia v. Emphasis added.] The Court rejected this approach.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
Globally, fine particulate pollution and ozone are tied to more than 8 million deaths each year according to a 2023 study in the British Medical Journal. That includes 5 million deaths linked to breathing in the emissions of fossil fuels. Then there is the 2023 ruling in Sackett v EPA.
Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2023
This is the first of a series of posts previewing the Emmett Institute’s 2023 Symposium , coming up on April 12. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) represent a radical change in federal climate policy. RSVP here !
Law and Environment
DECEMBER 20, 2023
On December 15, 2023, IRS published Notice 2024-06 , a brief but important guidance on Section 40B, the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) tax credit for sustainable aviation fuel (“SAF”). The guidance establishes a safe harbor for SAF that generates RINs under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard program (“RFS”).
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