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America’s Leading Environmental Court

Legal Planet

The state court on the cutting edge of environmental law is a long way from the major population and media centers, which may be one reason it doesn’t get much attention. The Hawaiian Supreme Court has been forging new paths in environmental law that may lead the way for other courts in years to come. It deserves more.

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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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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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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. Trisko (BA, NYU, 1972; JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 1977) is an attorney in private practice.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa

Corp Watch

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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Court orders 42 Ugandan families evicted to make way for oil project

Corp Watch

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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