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Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 14, 2023
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. This decision would undermine that.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice — Circle of Blue. As septic pollution roils Higgins Lake, Michigan lawmakers consider reform — Bridge Michigan. Eric Holcomb has signed a law regulating the underground storage of carbon dioxide, the Northwest Indiana Times reports. In the News. Other News.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 11, 2024
As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. Now that there is a desperate need to slash global warming emissions worldwide to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, it is critical to rapidly phase out the use of all fossil fuels. What accounts for that?
MGKF Law
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The holding halts former Governor Tom Wolf’s efforts to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil-fuel producing state to implement a price on carbon emissions. Read More » Tags: Air , Climate Change , Commonwealth Court , Pennsylvania , Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection , Taxes
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 26, 2023
Funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the collaborative’s four newsrooms — Bridge Michigan, Circle of Blue, Great Lakes Now, and Michigan Radio — will report on overlooked pollutants as well as legal and institutional barriers preventing achievement of the Clean Water Act’s aspirational goals.
PA Environment Daily
MAY 5, 2022
The bill contains a laundry list of many proposals Republicans have tried to get enacted for years to emasculate environmental protection efforts in Pennsylvania. A state cannot exempt itself from a federal law or regulation. A state cannot exempt itself from a federal law or regulation. Read more here. Read more here.
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