Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

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. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. All of us are exhaling carbon dioxide right now.

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Carbon Dioxide Climate Change Clean Water Act Fossil Fuels 266

Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

BLM estimates that the project will produce up to 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in indirect emissions totaling 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent. See Karuk Tribe of California v. USFS (9th Cir. 2012) ; Cal. USDA, (9th Cir.

Climate Change 59

Climate Change Fossil Fuels Sea Level 2008 59

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming.

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2020 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40