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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. Moody also jumped in head-first to protect the fossil fuel industry.

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America’s Leading Environmental Court

Legal Planet

The PUC rejected the project even though it would produce fewer emissions than fossil fuels. The PUC was under no obligation to evaluate an energy project conceived of in 2012 the same way in 2022. In upholding the PUC, the court said that the commission was “charged with protecting the right to a life-sustaining climate system.”

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The New EPA Car Rule Doesn’t Violate the Major Questions Doctrine

Legal Planet

These differences would strike me as decisive, but I would also emphasize three other important differences between the regulation and the Clean Power Plan: First , the Clean Power Plan was qualitatively different from previous EPA regulations, not just different in degree. There’s no such thing as a hybrid wind/coal power plant.

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Jobs and Environmental Regulation

Legal Planet

Look at it this way: In 1970, when the Clean Air Act was passed, the unemployment rate was twice what it is today. A March 2022 article in the Journal of Economic Literature took a careful look at the impact of the Clean Air Act on jobs. The Act applied everywhere in the U.S.,

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Ask a Scientist: Top Takeaways from the New EPA Carbon Pollution Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S. Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2022, installed wind and solar power more than tripled , according to American Clean Power. In 2012, coal generated 37 percent of US electricity. global warming pollution, second only to the transportation sector.

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Livestock Operations Are Responsible for Over Half of California’s Methane Emissions—Why Won’t CARB Regulate Them?

Legal Planet

CARB’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seeks to incentivize the production and sale of alternative, lower emissions transportation fuels in order to displace conventional fossil fuels. To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels.

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. Posted on June 29, 2022 by Eugene M. It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990.

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