Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Supreme Court issued a decision striking down an Obama era rule regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants. EPA ) held that CO2 and other greenhouse gasses meet the definition of an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act. EPA decision or EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding. The Dissent.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts , EPA issued its “ Endangerment Finding ” in 2009, which concluded that “six greenhouse gases … taken in combination endanger both the public health and the public welfare of current and future generations.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

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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