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Allegations of extensive sexual abuse at Kenyan offsetting project used by Shell and Netflix

Corp Watch

Environmental Groups Sue Shell Oil for Clean Air Act Violations at Deer Park Refinery and Chemical Plant Mike Metzger | Environment Texas | January 7, 2008 Sierra Club and Environment Texas filed a lawsuit today in federal district court against Shell Oil Company and several affiliates. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Trump is out of office, but he left behind a 6-3 conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court.

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The Supreme Court Curbs Climate Action

Legal Planet

Today, the Supreme Court decided its most important environmental case since 2007. In order to regulate existing power plants—especially existing coal-fired plants—EPA turned to section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. The Obama Administration’s section 111(d) regulation was known as the Clean Power Plan.

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The Supreme Court’s Top-10 Environmental Law Decisions

Legal Planet

Unless the Court moderates its views, future regulations will face tough sledding. The Clean Water Act requires that industrial sources reduce their discharges, but it left two big questions unanswered: Would EPA or the states set the pollution limits? Initially, Chevron was hailed by conservative judges and commentators.

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Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

PA Environment Daily

Now, I come from an evangelical conservative faith perspective. Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. And there at Geisinger, I am the founding director of the Environmental Health Institute, which we founded in 2007.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so. The case ultimately wound up in the US Supreme Court, which, in its controversial West Virginia v. That “aggressive pursuit” goes both ways.

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The Trump Watch: What Does the New Administration Portend for the Environment?

Vermont Law

In the chapter on climate change, the CEI calls for Congress to repeal or defund virtually every federal effort enacted by Obama to target climate change, ranging from the ability of the EPA to regulate CO. as a pollutant at all to the Clean Power Plan, which has no chance of clemency before its swift execution at some point in 2017. [14].

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