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Ninth Circuit Holds Berkeley’s Gas Ban Preempted by U.S. Energy Policy & Conservation Act

Law Columbia

Since 2019, more than seventy local and state jurisdictions have followed Berkeley’s lead in requiring or strongly incentivizing all-electric or fossil-fuel-free new buildings, with more considering similar approaches. Air pollution is governed at the federal, state, and sometimes local levels, and the relevant federal statute is the U.S.

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State “Climate Superfund” Bills: What You Need to Know

Law Columbia

In a 2022 press release introducing New York’s then-unprecedented Climate Superfund bill, one of the bill’s sponsors directly stated that the bill was inspired by source attribution research (specifically, research on carbon dioxide and methane emissions attributable to fossil fuel and cement producers). Constitution.”

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EDF: Federal Pipeline And Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Proposes Vital Standards to Enhance Safety, Cut Methane From Nation’s Pipeline Network

PA Environment Daily

Strong federal standards to reduce pipeline leaks are critical for delivering on the Biden administration's commitment to curb climate-warming methane pollution while increasing public health and safety.” Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in the near-term.

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Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. A pollutant is a subject that is harmful to human beings or to animals or to plants,” he said.

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Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. I’m an appellate litigator with a focus on climate and Clean Air Act cases. Q: Hi, Sean. For about 15 years I’ve been practicing in a very small firm.

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EPA’s Power Plant Rule is Not Bold. It’s What’s Required.

Legal Planet

Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. Long story short, they did and it is.

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Do We Dare Continue to Flare?

Vermont Law

Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 8, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes air quality standards under the Clean Air Act. (1) Greenhouse gases—such as carbon dioxide and methane—have a heat-trapping impact on climate. (12)