Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. 10 years later, the act was modified to include toxic pollutants and funded sewage.

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Government Law Waste Clean Air Act 52

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. EPA’s 2018 rule also suspended the prohibition for companies currently using ozone-depleting substances. In ruling on the challenge to the 2018 rule, the D.C. The court also rejected the contention that the 2018 rule was not final action.

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2020 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C. Seven weeks after the U.S. San Francisco Baykeeper v. 20-17367 (9th Cir. The groups alleged that the U.S.

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2021 Fossil Fuels Climate Change Endangered Species Act 40

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The rule took effect on January 17, 2017; on June 15, 2017, BLM issued a notice of postponement of January 17, 2018 compliance dates. The rule requires that measures be taken, beginning in January 2018, to reduce venting and flaring from oil and gas production on federal and tribal lands. The plaintiffs contended that the U.S.

2017 40

2017 Clean Air Act Climate Change Clean Water Act 40

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Army Corps of Engineers’ issue of a Section 404 permit under the Clean Water Act for a new petrochemical plant on the Mississippi River in Louisiana. 452044/2018 (N.Y. The Ninth Circuit found, however, that the plaintiffs had not established the redressability requirement for standing. Exxon Mobil Corp. ,

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2020 Fossil Fuels Climate Change Greenhouse 40

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

in domestic or international efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Instead Mr. Ebell seems perfectly suited to eviscerate the efforts of the Obama Administration to reduce carbon emissions as part of the international cooperation to spare the globe from looming catastrophe.

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2016 Climate Change Fossil Fuels Clean Air Act 40