2002 Fossil Fuels Greenhouse Regulations 
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Bush reversed himself and fervently embraced fossil fuels. So far as I can tell, the first serious American effort to cut emissions was the passage of California’s Pavley Act in 2002, which mandated cuts in carbon emissions from vehicles. This by no means made EPA regulations or state climate action irrelevant.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 6, 2023
However, it’s a disappointment to the initiative’s proponents and to a larger group of environmental advocates who seek to promote California’s quick transition from reliance on heavily-polluting and climate-damaging fossil fuels to renewable energy resources.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane.
Corp Watch
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). In the Niger River Delta, the company was responsible for an average of 2,976 spills a week between 1976 to 1991, on the land of the Ogoni people. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Also see SOMO's 2008 report.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. After five months of investigation, and in interviews with more than 40 farmers, state regulators, advocates, and scientists in five states and Washington, D.C.,
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 19, 2023
And so what this study did was looking at 2002 to 2015 Medicare claims, the authors took advantage of a stark difference in fracking activity between Pennsylvania, where the practice started becoming widespread in 2008, and in New York, where fracking was and still is banned. And of course, regulations cannot stop air pollution.
Corp Watch
MARCH 1, 2024
Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).
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