Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by paying $60 million in bribes to intermediaries of an Iranian government official who then exercised his influence to help the company obtain valuable contracts to develop significant oil and gas fields in Iran. SEC Charges Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by paying $60 million in bribes to intermediaries of an Iranian government official who then exercised his influence to help the company obtain valuable contracts to develop significant oil and gas fields in Iran. SEC Charges Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

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. , Department of Transportation, and NHTSA.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012. Following the transition between administrations, EPA withdrew the January version, finding that its conclusions had been compromised by political interference.[[N:News OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012. 9, 2021).]]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

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. EN: These standards—or at least something based on the same Clean Air Act provision—have been in the works for a long time.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

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. At face value, investigative initiatives like advisory bodies seem like positive steps, but at several points in time, it really was merely political theater.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

The legal and political responses to the accident have been predictable. EPA’s efforts to regulate vinyl chloride as a hazardous air pollutant under section 112 of the Clean Air Act also went on for more than a decade and was ultimately a big part of the reason why Congress overhauled that section of the statute in the 1990 amendments.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It will likely be at least two weeks before the Senate takes up the legislation and the Senate will likely make major changes to the bill before passing the legislation for political and parliamentary reasons. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. 5345 ), sponsored by Rep.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

6, 2012). [7]. Moreover, science cannot answer questions that are at heart economic or political, such as whether the Kyoto Protocol is worthwhile. [13]. as a pollutant at all to the Clean Power Plan, which has no chance of clemency before its swift execution at some point in 2017. [14]. 2, 2014). [8].

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