Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

This blog post summarizes EPA’s regulation of GHG emissions from power plants, its proposed rule, and the Sabin Center’s three comment letters. Pursuant to this statutory authority, EPA has been regulating power plants’ GHG emissions since 2009.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Also last week, the news broke that Zeldin is urging the White House to strike down the 2009 EPA finding that global warming gases endanger public health and the environment. Returning to the EPA in top spots for chemical regulation are Nancy Beck and Lynn Dekleva. Zeldin may be inexperienced at regulation, but none of the above are.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

Suspended Challenges to Biden Administration Actions and Concerns About Purgatory Activity in most pending challenges to the Biden administrations climate regulations and actions was temporarily suspended as Trump agency officials began to implement White House directives to review those actions for potential revocation.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 11, 2025

This 2009 legal determination is based on extensive scientific evidence that says heat-trapping emissions from activities like the burning of fossil fuels are driving climate change and posing a threat to human health and welfare. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2047. Even more alarming, we are witnessing the U.S.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

In January 2009, DEP ordered then Cabot Oil & Gas, the company that drilled in the shale gas wells, to cease all fracking operations in Susquehanna County to conduct an evaluation of its fracking operations. million toward a new regulated public water line as well as payment of 75 years of water bills for the impacted homeowners.

2026

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

A key action on the chopping block is the Endangerment Finding - which is critical to regulating greenhouse gases and curbing climate change. This determination, known as the Endangerment Finding, triggered EPAs legal duty and provides its corresponding authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

AUGUST 13, 2025

Dessler calls the Energy Department report a “law brief from attorneys defending their client, carbon dioxide.” Currently the EPA is on its way to cancel the Democrats CARBON FEAR Program by reversing the rules and regulations on Carbon emissions. A landmark 1994 decision by state water regulators limited L.A.’s

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 30, 2025

First, the Court held that air pollutants, as defined by the Clean Air Act, include greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. If the Administrator made such a determination, then it had to regulate those emissions. It doesn’t seem farfetched to assume that the votes exist to overturn Mass v.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2025

We appreciate the Trump Administration’s bold action to repeal burdensome regulations that harm hardworking American families and job creators while also prioritizing commonsense policies that benefit the nation’s environment and our economy.” EPA’s regulation of the climate affects the entire national economy—jobs, wages, and family budgets.

Greenhouse

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alito famously said that carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning, a key contributor to global warming, is not a pollutant. That is despite studies tying carbon dioxide to skyrocketing rates of childhood asthma. There is evidence linking elevated carbon dioxide to longer pollen seasons. Photo by Derrick Z.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Both the LC and LP require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. It is not hard to see why.

Carbon Dioxide

The Energy Law

APRIL 7, 2010

By Stephen Wiegand EPA recently announced its position regarding the timing of the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Program. However, pollutants such as carbon dioxide, for which EPA regulations only require monitoring and reporting, are not subject to PSD permitting.

2011

The Energy Law

JANUARY 6, 2010

By Stephen Wiegand On December 15, 2009, EPA published in the Federal Register its final endangerment findings with respect to greenhouse gases. 15, 2009) [[link] This rulemaking is a response to Massachusetts v. These gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydroflourocarbons, perflourocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride.

Greenhouse

Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

The document outlines the Commission’s plans to build an EU-wide carbon management infrastructure as part of its efforts to decarbonize the industrial sector and achieve negative emissions. Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) : CDR is an umbrella term for technologies that remove and store CO2 from the atmosphere.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide. And over the last 15 years, I've spent regular time in Danville.

Natural Gas

Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas. carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, all emissions?). It is one thing when a political leaders in a government make an ESG claim.

Carbon Emissions

Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 23, 2022

It is one thing when government leaders make an ESG claim: In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas. all emissions or only greenhouse gases or just carbon dioxide or?). Scope 3 emission).

Carbon Emissions

Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

However, Bitcoin’s lack of intrinsic value, the ease with which it can be lost, its lack of regulation, and its price volatility are not the only aspects of digital gold that have been criticised. megatons of carbon dioxide during the same period. of total energy consumption in the USA. What is Bitcoin?

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

The Conservative Party’s ties to organised climate denial go back at least to 2009, when the late Tory peer Nigel Lawson , who was chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher, founded the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

Fossil Fuels

Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

The California LCFS Program was adopted in 2009 as one of the key measures to reduce GHG emissions in California under AB 32. The program’s original target was to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuel used in California by 2020 at least 10% from a 2010 baseline. Endnotes. [1] 1] Draft Scoping Plan at 225. [2]

2030

ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

metric tons of carbon dioxide a year for up to 30 years. Before the formal announcement, the Biden administration also announced that it will draft new regulations protecting around 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and withdraw 2.8 million acres of the Arctic Ocean from oil and gas exploration.

2023

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. Second, we saw this trend of regulations, which do generally provide a degree of safety for the public, but there's a common misconception that they are truly health-protective; they are not.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. Appalachian Power is currently seeking approval from Virginia regulators to increase residential electric rates by nearly 16 percent due to higher fuel costs.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog. The vote on it was 24-9.

Regulations

Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

What a 50% reduction looks like The GHGs implicated in climate change are primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and fluorinated gases, like hydroflourocarbons. economy, shifting our own carbon emissions to other countries with less stringent regulation, and widescale job destruction.

2030

Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

The GHGs implicated in climate change are primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and fluorinated gases, like hydroflourocarbons. carbon dioxide pollution fell by a sharp 11 percent, largely due to the societal and economic disruptions caused by efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

2030

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Is your story being told? -- In Memoriam: Louise Dunlap A Leading Force Behind Coal Mine Reclamation, Regulation -- In Memoriam - Dr. Jim Finley, Fmr. Thank you to local news media for publishing these stories! Support Local Journalism!

Conservation

Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases, and that this authority may prove central to addressing climate change under the statute. EPA applies to greenhouse gases emitted from motor vehicles, and under which EPA issued an endangerment finding for greenhouse gases in 2009. Alternatively, the U.S.

Air Pollution

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. Three key takeaways from the court’s decision: The Court did not rule that EPA lacks authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants or other sources.

Clean Air Act

A Greener Life

AUGUST 6, 2024

Between 2009 and 2023, Exxon spent some $175 million on algae-related marketing like this video – almost half as much as the company spent working on the technology. In a 2019 email published by the committee, one executive noted that Wheeler’s “legal theory … for rolling back direct regulation of methane” was “aligned with our thinking.”

Biofuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the trade group had satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending judicial review and stayed the rule “insofar as it purports to regulate trailers.” The anti-backsliding study was due in June 2009, 18 months after EISA’s enactment. million rate increase.

2017

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2]. emissions from the power sector. [3].

Greenhouse

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

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. Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

The coal industry and conservative states want the high court to limit EPA’s powers solely to the regulation of individual power plants. EPA , the landmark 2007 decision that said the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emitted from new motor vehicles. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.

Carbon Dioxide

Columbia Climate Law

APRIL 1, 2020

The policy identifies several situations in which COVID-19 may be considered the cause of a violation, including where a regulated entity’s ability to comply with environmental law is impacted by travel restrictions or social distancing requirements imposed to manage the pandemic, or worker shortages resulting from it.

Greenhouse