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Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Thom Tillis (R-NC) described it as a “stifling regulation” that would “cripple” agriculture and do irreversible damage. Only one witness was able to testify in favor of the rule, San Francisco law professor Dave Owen, but his sober legal analysis was swamped in the flood of invective.
Legal Planet
MAY 29, 2024
This post was originally published on the Law & Political Economy Blog as “How Environmental Law Created a World Awash in Toxic Chemicals.” Indeed, the PFAS disaster points once again to the failure of our laws regulating toxic chemicals, which were intended to avoid just these sorts of problems.
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Legal Planet
MAY 16, 2024
What are the most important Supreme Court decisions in environmental law? Unless the Court moderates its views, future regulations will face tough sledding. And would the limits be set by regulations applying to entire industries, or on a facility-by-facility basis? With that as background, here’s the list in chronological.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2024
It also encourages badly needed reforms inside and outside of government and will help create new political coalitions. Our study offers a lens on how four key nations are using the law to navigate net zero, highlighting their varied approaches and the potential for legal strategies to accelerate progress.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
This blog post was co-authored by Martha Kinsella, former senior counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. To keep such episodes from happening, states need to put in place laws and policies to safeguard the integrity of science used in policymaking.
Legal Planet
JANUARY 13, 2022
Today, however, I’m going to focus instead on the conservative split and what it might mean for environmental law. The majority also finds no precedent for a rule of this kind in previous OSHA actions, and it views the vaccine mandate as involving “vast economic and political significance.”
Legal Planet
JANUARY 18, 2024
The government’s efforts to control methane have followed a complicated path, involving three different congressional actions: section 111 of the Clean Air Act, which allows EPA to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases; a congressional override of an earlier regulatory action; and a newer statute that creates a fee on methane emissions.
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