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A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

Gas prices: Without a cap, the flood of bio-based diesel into California will continue, requiring a rapid increase in stringency to stabilize LCFS credit markets, sending 2030 stringency from the 30 percent proposed in the regulation to 34.5 The lower stringency results in lower costs and reduced economic impact of the regulation.

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Ninth Circuit Rejects Constitutional Challenge to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Law Columbia

A little background : As one component of its state plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, California required its Air Resources Board (CARB) to develop regulations that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fuels by ten percent by 2020. As part of this effort, CARB adopted the LCFS.

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Analysis: What challenges face Chile’s new ‘environmentalist’ government?

A Greener Life

A native of Chilean Patagonia, Boric became known as one of the leaders of the country’s student protests of 2011. The president-elect, who is currently finishing his second term as a congressman, made environmental and climate change issues central to his campaign.

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Green on Top: Zoning Against Climate Change with Green-Roof Legislation

Vermont Law

As Catherine Malina wrote in a Georgetown International Environmental Law Review article in 2011, however, green-roof zoning laws could be effective and cost-efficient options to mitigate heat pollution from urban microclimates known as. According to the US Environmental Protection . gency (EPA). , The EPA maintains.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs.

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Global Perspectives on a Global Pact for the Environment

Law Columbia

Whether any such gaps exist in IEL is doubtful, since ordinarily the absence of a legal rule regulating an issue (say, plastics pollution or protection of a species) does not create a gap in the law; it simply means that, legally, states are free to act as they choose. That is why U.S. A return to the U.S.

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June 12 PA Environment Digest Now Available

PA Environment Daily

PA Trout Unlimited Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues. From Baseline; Savings Of $59.7 From Baseline; Savings Of $59.7