Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. These emissions standards were significantly loosened in the last year of the Trump Administration.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

By contrast, the Obama administration’s proposed carbon regulation of the power sector, the “Clean Power Plan,” proposed emissions reductions of 32 percent — by 2030. In 2005, Vermont legislators promised to reduce emissions 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2012, but instead the state’s emissions rose 16.3

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. Second, we saw this trend of regulations, which do generally provide a degree of safety for the public, but there's a common misconception that they are truly health-protective; they are not.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so.

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