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Legal Planet
APRIL 25, 2024
Under the Clean Air Act, nationwide EPA air pollution rules can only be challenged in the D.C. Fortunately for EPA, challenges can’t just run to their favorite forum, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s courtroom in Amarillo, Texas, where they would be guaranteed a victory. Circuit, where EPA will get a much fairer hearing.
Law Columbia
APRIL 23, 2021
On April 1, 2021, a unanimous Second Circuit panel dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York City against a handful of fossil fuel companies seeking damages for climate change harms under state public nuisance and trespass law. The opinion and other case materials are available here.) In my view, the court missed the mark, in the main.
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Legal Planet
MAY 11, 2023
Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. Long story short, they did and it is.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 2, 2023
That was his way as a political leader: working tirelessly and proactively to make connections and fight to ensure everyone had the right to a safe and healthy environment. A myriad of studies since have validated these findings across a number of exposures, such as soot air pollution (PM2.5
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation.
Law and Environment
MAY 12, 2023
The proposed rule would apply to new and existing gas plants and existing coal plants—new coal plants are separately regulated—and promises to significantly cut carbon and other harmful air pollutant emissions from fossil plants over the next two decades and beyond. Emphasis added.] The Court rejected this approach.
Corp Watch
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels.
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