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

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. Between 1990 and 2016, the sea level off its 2,876-mile coast rose 6 inches , at least partly because the land is sinking.

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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

Law Columbia

Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. 497 (2007), the Supreme Court reversed EPA’s denial. Likewise, rising sea levels, hurricanes, and more frequent flooding is already causing billions of dollars of damage for municipalities, while threatening to displace millions of people in the United States by 2100.