Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way). DR: Adding EVs to the grid is unlike other typical demands, such as air conditioning or refrigerators, which have to run at certain times during the day or continuously.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017. And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Both technology and the shift of fuels have contributed to this trend. However, small datasets and new technologies that remove sulfur dioxide from emissions made it difficult to identify in the data the more recent shift from coal- to natural-gas-fired power plants. We wanted to look at how this trend has affected water quality.”

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The federal Clean Air Act defines an indirect source as any facility, building, structure, or installation, or combination thereof, which generates or attracts mobile source activity that results in emissions of any pollutant (or precursor) for which there is an air quality standard. [6] Endnotes. [1] 20, 2019). [6]

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Bonomo, who first came to PennFuture as the organization’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in August 2016, has served as the organization’s President and Chief Executive Officer since October of 2017. energy technology policy.

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Columbia Climate Law

MARCH 19, 2019

This week, the Sabin Center and a group of scientists with expertise on carbon capture and sequestration (“CCS”) technologies submitted comments on EPA’s proposal to weaken the CO 2 performance standards for new coal-fired power plants. CO 2 emissions in 2017 were approximately 5.3 ranges from 2,379 – 21,633 billion tons CO 2.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 Achieving that standard was thought to be nearly impossible when Congress created this mandate, but the mandate forced the car companies to make technological breakthroughs with catalytic converters. Tier 3 standards were phased in starting with 2017 cars.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The bill retains a provision from the House bill repealing section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Regulating the carbon emissions of thousands of power plants is not a choice, it’s what’s required under the Clean Air Act and subsequent determinations and court decisions.  If this all feels like deja vu, that’s because we’ve been here before. Long story short, they did and it is. EPA,” says my colleague Prof.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Our client is Tom Jorling, a former Senate staffer and EPA official who was directly involved in drafting the Act in 1970. (We The court then paused the litigation while EPA revisited the issue.

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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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ESA

JANUARY 18, 2022

She previously worked as the director of the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks from 2017 to 2020 and was an assistant professor of law at the University of Montana. White House: The Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report about scientific integrity in the federal government. Jacobs-Young has a Ph.D.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Over 40 countries pledged to rapidly scale up technologies and policies to achieve a transition away from unabated coal power generation in the 2030s for major economies and in the 2040s globally. billion to the National Science Foundation to start a Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP). The bill provides $1.52

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

House Science Committee: Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK) sent a letter to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar requesting information about how the White House has responded to a scientific integrity scandal involving OSTP Deputy Director for Climate and Environment Jane Lubchenco.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

billion to the National Science Foundation to start a Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP). The directorate is tasked with accelerating use-inspired and translational research in technologies and innovations of national importance. Innovation and Competition Act ( S. Innovation and Competition Act ( S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

The report chastises BioLab for failing to “implement industry guidance for extreme weather preparation,” particularly after the catastrophic explosion at the Arkema chemical plant near Houston, Texas after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. EPA arbitrarily proposed to limit this requirement to roughly five percent of RMP facilities.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

In the meantime, the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases issued a technical document providing interim estimates, including a cost of $51 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, using estimates developed prior to 2017 and adjusting for inflation.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology holds second meeting of the administration, focused on climate, energy and the environment. White House Office of Science and Technology seeks input about how the federal government can advance equity in science and technology. Innovation and Competition Act ( S.

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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. Department of Commerce and Kei Koizumi, Chief of Staff at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, in conversation with Stuart Benjamin of Duke Law. Scientific Community.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

EPA promulgated the challenged rule in 2019 in response to the Ninth Circuit’s issuance of a writ of mandamus in 2017. The bill was introduced in the House on August 6 and referred to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology and on Transportation and Infrastructure ( H.R. [[N: A Cmty. EPA , 997 F.3d 3d 983 (9th Cir.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

trillion upcoming infrastructure bill to include funding for the Civilian Climate Corps and a Native Civilian Climate Corps, a National Science Foundation research and technology directorate, climate research, coastal resiliency, research infrastructure at the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories and more. research and technology.”

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

White House: The Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a request for information to help improve the effectiveness of federal scientific integrity policies. Former President Donald Trump shrank the size of both of monuments in 2017. More News: Lawmakers launch Republicans-only climate change caucus – NBC News.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

After concluding in 2011 that listing of the Pacific walrus was warranted due to threats that included sea-ice loss through 2100, the FWS issued a final decision in October 2017 that the Pacific walrus no longer qualified as a threatened species. Citizens for a Healthy Community v. Department of Interior , No. 1:21-cv-01268 (D.

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

Todd Young’s (R-IN) proposal to increase competitiveness with China by creating a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and authorizing $100 billion in NSF over five years. The Senate Commerce Committee also amended the Endless Frontiers Act to add several standalone STEM bills including the RISE Act ( S.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Endless Frontier Act Stalled and Renamed to the Innovation and Competition Act. Bill would create a technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increases authorized funding levels. Even when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate in 2017 and 2018, Congress largely rejected these steep cuts.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

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]. Commercial technologies do not exist for removing CO. However, the Clean Power Plan is currently tied up in the D.C. Additionally, under attack is the carbon pollution standard rule. .

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In the landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2016 (AB32), California established the goal of limiting statewide GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The legislation directed the Air Resources Board (ARB) to adopt regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost?effective mpg by 2025.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On January 13, 2021, the federal district court for the Northern District of California denied EPA's request to reconsider its earlier decision to hold in abeyance a case challenging EPA's 2017 denial of a TSCA Section 21 petition seeking to compel EPA to act under TSCA to prohibit fluoridation of drinking water. 19, 2017).]]

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 1, 2021, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals remanded a final Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) rule promulgated in October 2017 that continued and expanded a statutory interim prohibition on diisononyl phthalate (DINP) in children’s toys and child care articles at concentrations greater than 0.1%

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. The court previously ruled that the 2017 issuance of NWP 12 violated the Endangered Species Act because the Corps failed to undertake Section 7 consultation.

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