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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

So starting in Act 13, passed in 2012, which I know lots of people are familiar with, that was really an act of deference to the oil and gas industry. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide. Read more here.]

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Dissecting the Attacks on the Endangerment Finding

Legal Planet

Understanding the Endangerment Finding Two requirements must be met before a substance can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. First, it has to qualify as an air pollutant. Circuit in a 2012 decision, Citizens for Responsible Regulation [CARE] v. EPA reversed the Bush EPAs interpretation of the Clean Air Act.

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Why Does Toyota Oppose Clean Air?

Union of Concerned Scientists

This long struggle to get cleaner air in California is one of necessity; pollution from Californias millions of cars and trucks, combined with its unique climate and geography have led to the state having consistently the worst air pollution in the nation. These damages are an unavoidable consequence of using and burning gasoline.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so. The case ultimately wound up in the US Supreme Court, which, in its controversial West Virginia v. Landry’s deep ties to the oil and gas industry predate his time as Louisiana’s AG.

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Zeldin Wants to “Reconsider” the EPA’s GHG Endangerment Finding. He Can’t Bury the Facts on Climate Science.

Union of Concerned Scientists

EPA Supreme Court ruling which held that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. Attacks on the Endangerment Finding and EPAs Clean Air Act authority from industry interests are nothing new. Court of AppealsD.C.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

In addition, the court rejected the contention that the Clean Air Act or foreign affairs doctrine completely preempted the plaintiffs’ claims and also indicated that federal common law would not provide a basis for complete preemption. 2012 CA 008263 B (D.C. National Review, Inc. , Center for Biological Diversity v.

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

Law Columbia

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. These emissions standards were significantly loosened in the last year of the Trump Administration. per year.