2015 Carbon Dioxide Clean Air Act Fossil Fuels 
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
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. Here’s a roundup of what these AGs have been doing to make a bad situation worse. How has Paxton responded?
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 14, 2023
Given the EPA has the responsibility and the obligation to address carbon pollution, these standards—the first to limit carbon emissions from existing coal- and gas-fired power plants—are long overdue. Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S. EPA Supreme Court decision in 2022.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 19, 2022
Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. All of us are exhaling carbon dioxide right now.
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 30, 2022
It agreed with settled science that carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels is the major source of greenhouse gases, and that climate change is real. Related Articles This Week: -- U.S.
Law Columbia
APRIL 20, 2021
The working group is expected to announce new estimates for the social costs of carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide in January 2022. Protections from Power Plants: Fossil fuel-fired power plants round out the trifecta of major sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
Columbia Climate Law
DECEMBER 2, 2019
The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis).
ESA
AUGUST 16, 2021
However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. World leaders agreed in the 2015 Paris climate agreement to try to limit to warming to 1.5 He has proposed paying for the new breaks by ending fossil fuel subsidies.
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