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Legal Planet
JULY 12, 2023
The bench trial took place last month in the state capitol, Helena, where 16 youth plaintiffs ages 5 to 22 made the case that Montana’s unwavering promotion of fossil fuels violates the state constitution’s guarantee to a “clean and healthful environment.” Whether Montana’s GHG emissions can be measured incrementally.
Columbia Climate Law
APRIL 24, 2020
The Clean Power Plan was the Obama Administration’s rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants, the nation’s largest stationary source of climate pollution. The rule was expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 30% by 2030.
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Law Columbia
APRIL 18, 2023
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. can be fueled by natural gas), and must base these options on a defensible “one-for-one” basis.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Environmental Protection Agency is in the middle of adopting rulemakings under the federal Clean Air Act that will require natural gas infrastructure operators to more carefully monitor methane emissions and develop plans to meet new emission limits. Applegate noted the U.S. Read more here - supplemental EPA rule. “I
Law Columbia
MARCH 14, 2024
In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Pursuant to a consent order, the remand order will not be entered until October 10, 2019. 5, 2019), No. Circuit Dismissed Clean Power Plan Challenges. FEATURED CASE.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 19, 2022
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. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. All of us are exhaling carbon dioxide right now.
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