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Good & Bad Environmental News From the U.S. Supreme Court

Legal Planet

Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. Last Friday, the justices granted review in Diamond Alternative Energy v. On Monday, the Court denied review in a separate but related case, Ohio v.

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PJM Electric Auction Impacts: 1 In 5 PA Households Report Problems Now Paying Energy Bills; Electric Utility Shutoffs Up 38.1% So Far This Year

PA Environment Daily

The other one is increased enhanced tools for utilities to terminate service that passed the General Assembly in 2004, 2005." “That big spike in 2006, 2007 really as a result of a couple of functions, one of which is the economy at the time and the recession that occurred. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

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The California Legislature: Where Global Warming is Real and Science Still Matters

Union of Concerned Scientists

This policy sets a declining limit on greenhouse gas emissions and the state distributes emission permits — either directly or through quarterly auctions — to companies, which can then sell them to others if they succeed in reducing their own pollution.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

But this also raises other questions: 1) Can we expect the season to continue to lengthen as global warming from increasing concentration of globally well mixed greenhouse gas (GWM-GHG) continues to warm the Atlantic SSTs? and European Clean Air Acts and Amendments of the 1970s ( Mann and Emanuel 2006 ; Dunstone et al.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Murray Energy Corp. McCarthy , No. 5:14 -cv-39 (N.D.

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Cars, Smog, and EPA

Legal Planet

The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 Apparently Congress did not relish the task of periodically resetting the standards itself The 1990 Amendments authorized EPA to set standards for 2004 and beyond. grams per mile (gpm) for NOx. These are called Tier 1 standards. fleetwide ceiling of 0.07

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33