2007 2019 Carbon Emissions Regulations 
Legal Planet
JANUARY 12, 2023
EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. Emissions standards for new cars temporarily stalled under Trump but are nonetheless much tighter than they were before Obama. 2007 Supreme Court decides Massachusetts v. Senate ratifies the UNFCC treaty.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. The genesis of ExxonMobil’s brazen hypocrisy can be traced back to 2007. ExxonMobil is still funding those folks, big time.”
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
Perhaps the most consequential of all Paxton’s actions, however, is a lawsuit he and AGs from 19 other states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, filed in 2021 challenging the EPA’s authority to curb power plant carbon emissions. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 1, 2022
The Supreme Court sharply limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to slash carbon pollution from power plants. The justices told EPA that it can set carbon emissions standards based only on interventions at individual power plants.
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. The coal industry and conservative states want the high court to limit EPA’s powers solely to the regulation of individual power plants. Climate Change on the Docket. They appear to have a sympathetic ear in Justice Alito.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 5, 2023
It was because of smoke during the 2007 wildfire season in the United States, the second worst at the time for acreage burned. Without major reductions in the carbon emissions fueling global warming, the impacts on the parks would be endless. It was an apocalyptic encore of the worst-ever 2006 season that saw 9.9
Environmental Progress
MARCH 11, 2021
11] Part of the reason for inadequate in-state electricity supply in California last August was that state regulators had closed in-state baseload power plants. 13] California regulators in 2020 over-estimated the contribution they could reasonably expect from renewables. gigawatts of highly-reliable, low-cost, and low-carbon power. [49]
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