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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. EPA’s 2018 rule also suspended the prohibition for companies currently using ozone-depleting substances.

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Policy News: April 11, 2022

ESA

Supreme Court reinstates Trump administration Clean Water Act regulation. Maryland General Assembly passes major climate legislation. The choices available to us are no longer ideal,” said Kristina Dahl, a principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, an NGO. Executive Branch.

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Policy News: May 28, 2021

ESA

Even when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate in 2017 and 2018, Congress largely rejected these steep cuts. EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced that the agency will rewrite a Trump administration regulation that limited state’s ability to block pipeline and fossil fuel export facilities under the Clean Water Act.

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