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

Legal Planet

In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. The absence of baseline regulation of dairy operations isn’t limited to greenhouse gas emissions. Agricultural employees are excluded from the protections of the National Labor Relations Act.

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Minnesota Can Do More to Protect People from Ethylene Oxide Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

EPA’s own scientists concluded in 2016 that the risk value of ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than previously understood. Exposure to ethylene oxide by breathing it in the air is associated with cancers of white blood cells, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, as well as breast cancers. What can be done? Here’s how.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. West Virginia Federal Court Ordered EPA to Evaluate Clean Air Act’s Impacts on Coal Industry.

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

Legal Planet

Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. None of these apply to the new car rule: The new rule is based on a legal provision that EPA has applied for decades to regulate cars, rather than an obscure and rarely used legal provision. The rule is not unprecedented.

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Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Corp Watch

For example in 2009 and 2010, Toyota recalled over 10 million vehicles over unintended acceleration problems and in 2016, Toyota recalled 1.4 million yuan over Lexus price-fixing Reuters | December 27, 2019 China's market regulator on Friday has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor 7203.T In 2018, Toyota was ordered to pay out $21.9

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

The proposed rule would provide de minimus air quality benefits in downwind areas with extremely high costs – estimated by EPA at $22 billion discounted 2016 dollars for the 2023-2042 period. The agency’s air quality modeling indicates that most areas would receive an ozone reduction of less than 0.1 ppb by 2025.

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Taking a Five-Year-Old to Court: EPA’s First 10 Risk Evaluations Meet the Bench

Acoel

The 2016 Lautenberg Amendments turning five on June 22, 2021 provides a perfect opportunity to reflect on how this ambitious and bold statute is growing up –­ and faring in the courts. Tracking the body of law building up around the Amendments is, for now, a manageable exercise. Posted on July 12, 2021 by Alexandra Dapolito Dunn.