2006 2015 Carbon Emissions Government 
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. 2006 AB 32. Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard. Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. 2015 SB350.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. In my retelling of the show, I quickly pointed out that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had by then concluded that “most” of the increase in average global temperatures since 1950 was “very likely” due to the increase in human-made carbon emissions.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 19, 2022
At issue in this case is whether and how the EPA can set standards for carbon emissions at power plants. In the 2006 Rapanos decision , Justice Anthony Kennedy determined that a wetland should have a “significant nexus” such as a navigable lake or river to be eligible for protection under “Waters of the US.”
HumanNature
OCTOBER 8, 2021
Challenges There are many challenges to the effective implementation of tax-credit or tax-funded payment programs for carbon-related ecosystem services, with two of the most significant being reasonably accurate quantification and valuation of carbon storage, sequestration, and production 8,11,12. Denver Colorado (2015).
Environmental Progress
MARCH 11, 2021
People wonder how we made it through the heat wave of 2006,” said the CEO of California’s grid operator, CAISO, at the time. The answer is that there was a lot more generating capacity in 2006 than in 2020. 23] In response to Fukushima, the Japanese government shut down its nuclear plants and the cost of electricity went up.
Environmental Progress
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
3] From 1981 to 2015, the population of humans living in extreme poverty plummeted from 44 percent to 10 percent. [4] Governments and farmers have known what “biosecurity” measures to take for decades, and enacted them, partly, in response to the 2005 avian flu (H5N1) epidemic. 2] Infant mortality declined from 43 to 4 percent. [3]
ESA
JUNE 14, 2021
In addition, the agency expects to propose an updated rule governing the venting and flaring of methane pollution from onshore oil and gas leases in October but did not estimate when it would finish work on that regulation. 20 executive order that called for a review of energy and environment-related rules across the federal government.
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