Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

Image via PickPik On May 23, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed emission limits and guidelines for carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-powered plants. To avoid the same fate as the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, which was struck down by the conservative Supreme Court in West Virginia v.

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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.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

The Heritage Foundation’s argument against the 2022 rule reads the West Virginia case very broadly: “Under West Virginia v. EPA, the Supreme Court said for agencies to change policy so drastically, as Obama wanted to do to force power plants to change to renewable fuels, they must have clear direction from Congress.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

James successfully sued to subject Formosa to an environmental review over the 800 tons of toxic air pollutants as well as the 13.6 million tons of greenhouse gases that the project is expected to emit annually. The plans for the plant are projected to double air pollution in an area with some of the worst air quality in the U.S.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Robert B. EPA as a decision depriving EPA of an important tool to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. First Court did not eliminate the Agency’s ability to require greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reductions under section 111 or any other section of the Clean Air Act.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide, on average, over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. can take in the short term to slow the rate of climate change.

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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. s challenge to the constitutionality of the linkage between California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program and Quebec trading program. United States v.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

Additionally, the executive order articulated a new federal policy of listening to science , prioritizing environmental justice, improving public health, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and bolstering climate resilience. The Biden administration is now poised to wield that tool to make a meaningful dent in greenhouse gas pollution.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In 1983, Reagan’s EPA warned about the risk of a runaway greenhouse effect. Later, Reagan signed the Global Climate Protection Act of 1987, which was part of an omnibus bill dealing with the State Department. The Act acknowledged the possible dangers of climate change. Or maybe he was just lying during the campaign.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of 2023. More News: Biden unveils new rules to curb methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from oil and gas operations – The Washington Post. Interior to weigh greenhouse gas emissions of proposed 2022 oil lease sales – Reuters.

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In April 2022, the Biden administration announced the launch of the first-ever U.S. More News: NASA cancels greenhouse gas monitoring satellite due to cost – Associated Press. Elect Wes Moore to Roll Back State Funding for Fossil Fuel Industry – Inside Climate News. Federal Register opportunities. Led by the U.S.

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed orders on Friday creating a climate task force and rescinding Trump-era secretarial orders that had made fossil fuel production on federal land a priority. Upcoming hearings: Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request for the Department of the Interior – House Appropriations Committee – April 20.

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

McEachin died in November 2022. Among other provisions, the bill authorizes $75 million annually for environmental justice research and requires increased public participation opportunities under the National Environmental Policy Act. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) reintroduced the Agriculture Research Act ( H.R. 1840 & S.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. But a major question is whether Manchin, a backer of fossil fuels, will go along with an effort that could eventually lead to less coal production in West Virginia.

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