Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 16, 2025

EPA is justifying this move by declaring that power plants—the nation’s largest stationary source of carbon emissions, responsible for a quarter of US heat-trapping emissions , on their own the sixth-largest emitter globally in 2022 —do not “contribute significantly” to climate change and thus do not merit regulation by EPA.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. The Supreme Court clipped the agency’s wings in its 2022 West Virginia v. EPA decision, but it did not ground EPA.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

What has not been abundant is the political will to enact these reforms, and CARB’s reluctance to initiate a rulemaking reflects this trend. Dairy digesters feature prominently in CARB’s 2022 Scoping Plan, California’s sector-by-sector roadmap toward carbon neutrality, as a significant source of emissions reductions.

Regulations

MGKF Law

JUNE 30, 2022

S. _ (2022). The major questions doctrine requires that a federal agency have “clear congressional authorization” when acting on issues of great “economic and political significance.” citing Utility Air Regulatory Group v. West Virginia v. EPA 597 U. ” Id. EPA , 573 U.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Because these regulations are required under the Clean Air Act, failure to submit them in final form to U.S. EPA by December 16, 2022, will result in EPA imposing non-discretionary sanctions, and the federal government would thus withhold nearly $1 billion of transportation funding ? Read more here. Williams, Esq.,

Regulations

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

Katie Hobbs veto a bill broadly restricting Chinese ownership of Arizona land?

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

On February 22, PennFuture President and CEO Jacquelyn Bonomo announced her retirement, effective July 2022, after a 37-year career in environmental advocacy. Pennsylvania, like much of the world, is in the midst of historic social, political, and economic changes that are putting enormous stresses on our environmental resources and laws.

Conservation

Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

Under the CERCLA approach adopted by the Climate Superfund bills, large fossil fuel producers and refiners are held strictly liable for costs arising from their products’ GHG emissions, regardless of whether they are deemed to have acted improperly. No federal statutes explicitly preempt state Climate Superfund laws, and different U.S.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

If signed, the state would have to withdraw Clean Air Act waiver requests already in process with the Environmental Protection Agency. The sale of new electric trucks, buses, and vans in California doubled in 2023 from 2022 , and one of every six medium and heavy-duty vehicles sold in the state today produces zero pollution.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

I had a small glimpse into this work in early 2022 when his office reached out to me after reading a report I co-authored on the risk of chemical spills from storage tanks in Virginia. Among its provisions, the legislation will: Require consideration of cumulative impacts in permitting decisions under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.

Air Pollution

Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

In March 2022, the SEC proposed amendments to Regulations S-X that would both enhance and standardize public companies’ climate-related disclosures (“Climate-Related Disclosures”). Environmental Protection Agency , citation, 597 U.S. ­­­ _ (2022), National Federation of Independent Business v. Background.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

The reason may have been the high political stakes in the car industry or the relatively easier task of setting standards for new products in a single industry using a single energy process. The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 trillion miles in 2022. (If grams per mile (gpm) for NOx.

Ground-Level Ozone

Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) represent a radical change in federal climate policy. To a certain extent, this is because of political and procedural constraints: The IIJA relied on center-right supporters, such as the U.S. RSVP here !

Law

Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

-- UnionProgress.com: Environmental Groups Give Beaver County Shell Petrochemical Plant ‘F’ Grade For First 100 Days In Operation -- Beaver County Times: Shell Petrochemical Plant Hit With Air Violations; Activists Call For Operations Halt -- PennLive Guest Essay: Air Pollution Is Killing Us, We’ve Got To Act Now To Stop It - By Carolyn Heckman, Evangelical (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Framework Convention On Climate Change (COP27) -- Inquirer Guest Essay: Here’s What Pennsylvania Can Learn From A World Climate Meeting -- Penn State: Can Low-Grade Geothermal Energy Be Recovered From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells? -- U.S.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2023

Nature Gas Output To Hit Record High In 2023, Demand To Fall -- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Price Falls As Ample LNG Supply Outweighs Colder Weather Other States/National/International -- TribLive/Bloomberg: U.S.

Natural Gas

Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Remove Coca-Cola as sponsors of COP27 Georgia Elliott-Smith | Change.org | September 30, 2022 Coca-Cola spends millions of dollars greenwashing their brand, making us believe that they are solving the problem.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

in bribes BBC PaulaR Wed, 06/07/2023 - 10:06 Thursday, April 14, 2022 Read more Prosecutors say Noel Corry created a "corrupt procurement culture" A former Coca-Cola Enterprises manager has admitted taking more than £1.5m UK: Coca-Cola Enterprises boss admits taking £1.5m

2015

Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Total to pay $2.9

2013

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Total to pay $2.9

2013

Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Total to pay $2.9

2013

Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Total to pay $2.9

2013

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Total to pay $2.9

2013

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Total to pay $2.9

2013

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 Total to pay $2.9

2013

Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Remove Coca-Cola as sponsors of COP27 Georgia Elliott-Smith | Change.org | September 30, 2022 Coca-Cola spends millions of dollars greenwashing their brand, making us believe that they are solving the problem.

2015

Acoel

MAY 24, 2023

But these fireworks obscured a longer abortion battle lingering in the Fifth Circuit since 2022: an attempt to overturn S.B. The Fifth Circuit quickly tossed that hot potato to the Texas Supreme Court by requesting an advisory opinion on whether certain state officials could be sued under Texas law if they acted on a private bounty lawsuit.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

At face value, investigative initiatives like advisory bodies seem like positive steps, but at several points in time, it really was merely political theater. Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. Schwartz, M.D.,

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

Yet, despite several requests from states over the years, most recently California during a 2022 “heat dome” and wildfires, no White House has ever approved a disaster declaration for heat or smoke. In the work world, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics says 43 workers died in 2022 from heat.

Fossil Fuels

Acoel

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Posted on October 17, 2022 by Chuck Becker. It would appear that DMC contends every environmental issue has “vast economic and political significance.” [xi] 2228, 2244 – 45 (2022). [v] 2587, 2612 (2022). [xi] The Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act are pretty analogous.

Clean Air Act

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19, Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. One topless woman interrupted CEO Oliver Blume's speech with the words "Dirty Money" painted on her back.

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19, Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. One topless woman interrupted CEO Oliver Blume's speech with the words "Dirty Money" painted on her back.

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19, Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. One topless woman interrupted CEO Oliver Blume's speech with the words "Dirty Money" painted on her back.

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19, Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. One topless woman interrupted CEO Oliver Blume's speech with the words "Dirty Money" painted on her back.

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19, Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. One topless woman interrupted CEO Oliver Blume's speech with the words "Dirty Money" painted on her back.

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19, Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S. One topless woman interrupted CEO Oliver Blume's speech with the words "Dirty Money" painted on her back.

2015