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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. In ruling on the challenge to the 2018 rule, the D.C. In a split decision, the D.C.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

US Fish and Wildlife Service reverses Endangered Species Act rules. Appeals court rules that US Fish and Wildlife Service improperly denied protections for Pacific walruses. Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.

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Policy News: May 28, 2021

ESA

The Trump administration proposed steep cuts across the government in its president’s budget request, especially to scientific and environmental programs. Even when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate in 2017 and 2018, Congress largely rejected these steep cuts. Environmental Protection Agency.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. The magistrate judge’s order also set the trial to begin on February 5, 2018. FEATURED CASE. A divided D.C.

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