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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

I’ve written previously about how the truck industry is fighting regulations at the state and federal level with everything they’ve got. One of the scare tactics truck manufacturers have been pushing is the old industry canard of job-killing regulations. Why would truck regulations impact jobs?

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. Is the day of reckoning coming?

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Stronger Fuel Economy Standards Are Needed to Clean Up Combustion Vehicles

Union of Concerned Scientists

In response, Congress put in place regulations to cut oil use from new passenger vehicles, known as the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program. Shortly thereafter, the Supreme Court ruled that EPA had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars and trucks under Massachusetts v.

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Ask a Scientist: Top Takeaways from the New EPA Carbon Pollution Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

EPA US Supreme Court decision in 2007 and the EPA’s follow-on Endangerment Finding and Cause or Contribute Finding in 2009, which ultimately set the stage for the agency to not only have the authority—but also the obligation—to regulate power plant carbon emissions. EPA Supreme Court decision in 2022. EPA’s 6-3 majority opinion.

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The Profound Climate Implications of Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA Decision

Union of Concerned Scientists

That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. Because while this decision does still recognize EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, it simultaneously sharply curtails the agency’s ability to do so.

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Oil Companies Plan to Take the Road Already Traveled

Union of Concerned Scientists

The oil and gas industry continues to cite such technologies as the answer to removing heat-trapping emissions far in the future, a solution it sees as justification for increasing fossil fuel production, as a recent Congressional investigation showed. Fighting climate disclosure, especially Scope 3 emissions The U.S.

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Don’t Make the Same Mistake Twice

Vermont Law

The space treaties and conventions of the 1960s and 1970s failed to account for today’s rapid growth of technological capabilities in space, especially the proliferation of non-state commercial activity in space. [9]. The IADC Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines provides a basis for international regulation of orbital debris.

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