Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company owned a steel mill that discharged toxic chemicals into the ocean, devastating more than a hundred miles of coastline in four central provinces of Vietnam. Taiwan: Formosa Plastics Head Lin Chen-jung Resigns in Bribery Scandal Taiwan Business Topics | August 10, 2015 Formosa Plastics Corp.’s USA: Formosa Plastics Corp.,

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Murray Energy Sought Supreme Court Review of Fourth Circuit’s Dismissal of Clean Air Act Jobs Study Case. Foster , No. 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D. decision Sept. 29, 2017; verdict Oct. NEW CASES, MOTIONS, AND NOTICES. Both sets of intervenors also said the court should limit any abeyance period to 120 days. West Virginia v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so.

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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. Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet as acting administrator of NOAA. filed Sept.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Supreme Court to hear Clean Water Act case. UN seeks input about possible topics for the Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue. ESA and other science societies have supported the 2015 definition of WOTUS that is based in sound science including endorsing an amicus brief in a former court case. International.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The EPA receives $100 million for air quality and climate research and NASA gets $115 million for climate research. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) Advisory Committee Public Meeting (Nov. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). 34-2015-80002005 (Cal. It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations.

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ESA

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Similar to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, countries must track and report their progress towards national biodiversity targets. More News: China’s Belt and Road infrastructure projects could help or hurt oceans and coasts worldwide – The Conversation. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In June 2021, EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced that that agency will repeal the Trump administration’s 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which replaced the Obama administration’s 2015 Clean Water Rule. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.” Scott Peters (D-CA) introduced the Save Our Sequoias Act ( H.R.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

The report’s authors conclude that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land and that widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. World leaders agreed in the 2015 Paris climate agreement to try to limit to warming to 1.5 Commerce, Science and Transportation.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2015, the Obama administration announced that it would ban chlorpyrifos, but former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt reversed that decision in 2017. 28, organized by Open Communications for the Ocean, will address how to conduct marine science that impacts policy. The Federal Emergency Management Agency commissioned this report.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The full House passed the Coastal and Ocean Acidification Stressors and Threats (COAST) Research Act (H.R. 1447 ), which reauthorizes ocean and coastal research monitoring program and creates an Ocean Acidification Advisory Board. billion for NOAA, a $1.4

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