Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 6, 2023
In its friend of the court brief in the Idaho case, the American Petroleum Association, the American Gas Association, and the Association for Oil Pipelines complained that the Clean Water Act led to a permitting system so “onerous” that the failure to obtain a permit after years of waiting “can be ruinous.”
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. At issue in this case is whether and how the EPA can set standards for carbon emissions at power plants.
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Columbia Climate Law
MAY 8, 2020
May 1, 2020). Montana Federal Court Vacated Nationwide Permit Due to Corps of Engineers Failure to Initiate Consultation Under Endangered Species Act. In particular, the court found that conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions constituted a significant impact was not clearly erroneous. Natural Resources Defense Council v.
ESA
JULY 26, 2021
Senators reintroduce Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. Judge rules Maui County, Hawaii must receive a Clean Water Act permit in a case that reached the Supreme Court. This program would put American to work on projects to reduce carbon emissions, build climate resilience and implement natural climate solutions.
ESA
DECEMBER 20, 2021
This bill reauthorizes the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 through 2024, directs NOAA to provide block grants to states to support state coral reef management and restoration and establishes a National Coral Reef Management Fellowship Program, among other provisions. But Is It Burning Less Carbon? – The New York Times.
ESA
JUNE 14, 2021
Odds and ends: EPA says it will reconsider a 2020 Trump regulation known as the Major MACT to Area, or MM2A, rule. It changed long-time agency policy to allow major sources of pollution to reclassify as area sources, a category with fewer regulatory requirements, once their emissions fell below a certain threshold. 21, 2020 ).
ESA
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
The pact recognizes that world’s countries would need to reduce global carbon emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 levels to limit warming to 1.5 Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. degrees Celsius. By Annie Snider, PoliticoPro, 11/18/2021.
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