Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Volkswagen pulls ad, apologizes for racist overtones DW | May 20, 2020 After being criticized for their first statement regarding the controversial ad, VW has issued a second apology. Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. The ruling sets a precedent for thousands more cases.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Volkswagen pulls ad, apologizes for racist overtones DW | May 20, 2020 After being criticized for their first statement regarding the controversial ad, VW has issued a second apology. Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. The ruling sets a precedent for thousands more cases.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Germany: Volkswagen pulls ad, apologizes for racist overtones DW | May 20, 2020 After being criticized for their first statement regarding the controversial ad, VW has issued a second apology. Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. The ruling sets a precedent for thousands more cases.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Germany: Volkswagen pulls ad, apologizes for racist overtones DW | May 20, 2020 After being criticized for their first statement regarding the controversial ad, VW has issued a second apology. Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. The ruling sets a precedent for thousands more cases.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. Conference of Mayors (USCOM).

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The court held that the City’s claims were not completely preempted by the Clean Air Act and also was not persuaded by the companies’ argument that the claims necessarily arose under federal common law. CDV-2020-307 (Mont. CTA also alleged that the rule violated state air laws and constituted an unlawful tax.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Oil and natural gas operations are also significant sources of other health-harming air pollutants, including smog-forming volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and toxic air pollutants such as benzene. That’s nearly the same as all greenhouse gases emitted from coal-fired electricity generation in the U.S.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) rule adopted in December 2020 that created new product classes for short-cycle washers and dryers in the energy conservation program. In re Hawai‘i Electric Light Co. , The appellate court agreed with the court below that the lawsuit raised nonjusticiable political questions. May 24, 2021). Reynolds v.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. The federal defendants, the States of Wyoming and Utah, and several trade groups appealed the district court’s November 2020 decision. WildEarth Guardians v.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. Electric utilities, meanwhile, gave her $44,750.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI) are promoting a separate $10 trillion decade-spanning green infrastructure plan, which sets a goal of 100% zero-carbon electricity by 2035, while creating 15.5 The event, originally scheduled for June 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Reps. 7 & 8).

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

The Rural STEM Education Research Act ( H.R. House in September 2020. The MSI STEM Achievement Act ( H.R. The scientific community opposed this executive order, over concerns that this category could be used fire scientists whose results contradict the preferences of political employees. However, the U.S.

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JUNE 28, 2021

This bill will include funding for roads, public transportation and electric vechicles charging stations as well $47 for climate resilency projects but does not include many of the climate provisions orginally proposed by the adminstration. The Trump administration never named a political appointee to this position.

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