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The Top-Ten Lower Court Decisions on Environmental Law

Legal Planet

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (2007). Circuit decision that upheld EPAs finding emission of greenhouse gases endangers human health and welfare. It also upheld the Obama Administrations pathbreaking regulation of greenhouse gases from vehicles. Still, theres no denying its importance. EPA (2012 ). This is a D.C.

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Operationalizing Climate Science

Real Climate

Where, at the beginning, there was really only one input parameter (the CO 2 concentration) that needed to be coordinated, the inputs have now broadened to include myriad forcings related to other greenhouse gases, air pollution, land surface change, ozone, the sun, volcanoes, irrigation, meltwater etc.

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Are direct water vapor emissions endangering anyone?

Real Climate

EPA in 2007: An air pollutant is defined as any substance, or combination of substances, including physical, chemical, biological, or radioactive matter, that is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air and may reasonably be anticipated to cause or contribute to air pollution. But both claims are bogus.

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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

These clean energy technologies are pivotal to Brazil’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting its international climate commitments. Proposed legislation like PL 490/2007 could further expose these lands to exploitation. In 2024, Brazil’s installed capacity for wind power reached approximately 22.6

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Governors Lead the Fight on Forests and Climate

Legal Planet

As chair of the California Air Resources Board for nearly 20 years, I attended the annual conferences from Bali in 2007 to Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in 2023. In these meetings, the leaders of states and provinces talk about what they are doing to reduce greenhouse gases and prepare for worsening climate disasters. You can tune them out.

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Zeldin Wants to “Reconsider” the EPA’s GHG Endangerment Finding. He Can’t Bury the Facts on Climate Science.

Union of Concerned Scientists

These findings followed from the landmark 2007 Mass v. EPA Supreme Court ruling which held that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. There is nothing mysterious about the heat-trapping attributes of greenhouse gases, nor their impact on public health.

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Does Deregulation Hypercharge the Economy>?

Legal Planet

Bush refuses to regulate greenhouse gases, reneging on a campaign pledge to do so. April 2007. Instead, firms seem to have been blas. unemployment. After: 6.1%. Supreme Court reverses Bush. Before: 4.4%. After: 4.4%. Obama Clean Power Plan Before: 5.0 %.