Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We thought that the key to reducing air pollution was to require better pollution control devices. Conventional pollution controls would have been seen as transition measures until the shift to clean energy, so the Clean Air Act would have been written differently.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 23, 2023

That bill, introduced in 2001 and passed the next year, told the California Air Resources Board to create such standards using ARB’s special powers under the Clean Air Act to develop more strict air pollution controls for cars than the federal government (explained here ).

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

To avoid the same fate as the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, which was struck down by the conservative Supreme Court in West Virginia v. Still, the fact that this draft rule follows the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”) has enabled the EPA to be relatively stringent.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Only portions of the legislation apply directly to units of local government, but taken as a whole it can be expected to help U.S. Still, how does a local government tap in? There are six broad ways local governments will need to navigate the IRA. . There are six broad ways local governments will need to navigate the IRA. .

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency's ability to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants under the federal Clean Air Act. EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

billion to support Indigenous conservation of forests. Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plan and a combined $19.4 million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. Lawmakers also allocate $9.7

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plans and a combined $19.4 million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. billion to support Indigenous conservation of forests. Lawmakers also allocate $9.7

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