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Using the Free Market to Affect Change: An Argument for Environmental Taxes

Vermont Law

The past two years have yielded unprecedented executive and regulatory engagement in the climate change discussion. Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. international climate change agreement. jointly committed. to reducing their carbon emissions. Clean Power Plan.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Clean Energy Law

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012.

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House Environmental Committee Sets May 1 Hearing On Cryptocurrency And Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing May 1 on cryptocurrency and climate change. At the hearing, Robert Altenburg, PennFuture’s Senior Director for Energy and Climate presented an overview of cryptocurrency mining in Pennsylvania and its environmental impacts.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S.

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ESA Policy News: November 7, 2022

ESA

The US Fish and Wildlife Service lists the Emperor Penguin as a threatened species, citing climate change as the primary threat to the species. State Attorneys General’ races could impact climate and energy policy. Discussions of climate ‘loss and damage’ are expected to dominate the conference. Executive Branch.

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ESA Policy News: October 24, 2022

ESA

Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties, or COP27, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in November 2022, ESA seeks ecological experts to include in a media advisory highlighting our members’ expertise in climate change and biodiversity. in 2016 to 30.2% Similarly, the number of life sciences Ph.D.

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EPA Proposal to Rescind Oil and Gas Methane Regulations Has Not Been Adequately Justified and Disregards Negative Climate Impacts

Columbia Climate Law

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”). By Romany Webb. That is not always the case, however.