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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon. Direct Environmental Effects Did you know that black carbon is the second most important warming agent in our atmosphere behind carbon dioxide (CO 2 )? Particles that are less than 2.5

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. In 2019, the Trump administration rolled back standards put in place under the Obama administration following the 2010 BP oil catastrophe that killed 11 people and spewed oil for five months.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

PA Environment Daily

He created the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission in 2011. 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.