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Trump 2.0, Day One: Considerations for Cities and Community Partners

Law Columbia

The Endangerment Finding was EPAs 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and endanger public welfare and that new motor vehicles contribute to this pollution. Pursuant to the text of Clean Air Act Section 202 , along with a 2007 case entitled Massachusetts v.

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The Endangerment Finding Is in Danger. Will EPA’s Zeldin Uphold Climate Science?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Among the many attacks in President Trumps Day 1 Executive Order on unleashing American (fossil) energy , is a directive to EPA administrator Zeldin to reevaluate the agencys bedrock 2009 scientific determination of the harms caused by heat-trapping emissions and submit recommendations within 30 days (i.e. this week).

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Why Repeal the Endangerment Finding?

Legal Planet

EPA , decided in 2007, had two important findings. EPA subsequently determined — to no one’s surprise — that greenhouse gases emitted from automobiles endanger public health and welfare, a determination President Obama issued in 2009. Massachusetts v.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action.

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How are Natural Climate Solutions showing up in Olympia?

Washington Nature

Climate legislation in Olympia has been sensitive to economic and political changes in the past. After peaking in the 2007-2008 legislative session, the number of climate bills proposed and passed fell greatly between 2009 and 2016, corresponding to the recent recession period.

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A premises owner can still be a statutory employer in Texas, at least for now

The Energy Law

Summers April 3, 2009. They are also available on Westlaw at 2009 WL 884906. By Andrew Wooley: The Supreme Court of Texas issued a decision on rehearing in Entergy Gulf States, Inc. We reverse the court of appeals’ judgment and render judgment for Entergy.

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Solving the proton puzzle

Physics World

Randolf Pohl was not in a good mood, late one evening in July 2009. Peter Mohr, a physicist from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology who chaired the group from 1999 to 2007 and is still a member, explains that it incorporates all “individually credible” results and then takes an average. “[It] Scattered doubts.