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

Law Columbia

billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. The research authorized by the 1963 CAA and the resulting recommendations culminated in the Clean Air Act of 1970 (1970 CAA), which set a regulatory agenda for the newly-formed EPA that included the first federally mandated vehicle emissions standards.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

global warming pollution, second only to the transportation sector. The rule, which also applies to new gas plants, would avoid as much as 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042, the EPA calculated , the equivalent of the annual emissions of 137 million passenger vehicles—about half of the cars in the country.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The anti-backsliding study was due in June 2009, 18 months after EISA’s enactment. In addition, the company filed an appeal with the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board. Both sets of intervenors also said the court should limit any abeyance period to 120 days. Millennium Bulk Terminals-Longview, LLC v.

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