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Local Government Associations File Brief to the Supreme Court in Support of EPA’s Clean Air Act Authority

Law Columbia

The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). These impacts will only increase as climate change worsens. In January 2021, the D.C.

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Dismissal of New York City’s Climate Change Suit Affirmed by Second Circuit On Preemption Grounds

MGKF Law

Earlier this month, the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court for the Southern District of New York’s ruling that state common law claims against oil companies for costs resulting from climate change were either preempted by the Clean Air Act, or, in the case of foreign emissions, represented a non-justiciable political question.

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EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Are Critical—and Complex. Here’s What to Know, and What to Watch.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation.

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

Whether climate change impacts to Montana’s environment can be measured incrementally. Whether climate impacts and effects in Montana can be attributed to Montana’s fossil fuel activities. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They are: Whether Plaintiffs’ injuries are mischaracterized or inaccurate.

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It’s Time to Repeal the Clean Power Plan

Legal Planet

Coal is the worst culprit from the perspective of climate change. Between 2015 and 2019, the amount of electricity generated from coal dropped by a third. The reason why the plan has no further practical relevance is a rapid shift in the mix of sources for generating electricity.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

1 Average number of named storms by day of the year in the historical record from 1851–2019 (dark blue line). and European Clean Air Acts and Amendments of the 1970s ( Mann and Emanuel 2006 ; Dunstone et al. 2021 ), and changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). 2019 ; Kossin et al.

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Ask a Scientist: UCS Transportation Program Adds Equitable Mobility to its Portfolio

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 1966, vehicles were responsible for nearly 60 percent of the 146 million tons of pollutants discharged into the air across the United States. More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. Tailpipe pollution also is a major contributor to the climate crisis.