Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2022

They date from September 1978–when Congress passed an “act to establish a comprehensive and coordinated national climate policy and program”–to the Inflation Reduction Act of August 2022. Environmental Protection Agency highlighted the issue of Congressional authorization for administrative action on climate change.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In a 2022 press release introducing New York’s then-unprecedented Climate Superfund bill, one of the bill’s sponsors directly stated that the bill was inspired by source attribution research (specifically, research on carbon dioxide and methane emissions attributable to fossil fuel and cement producers).

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so. Mississippi: Lynn Fitch The sea level off the coast of Mississippi—the fifth hottest state—is rising more rapidly than in most other coastal areas, largely because the land is sinking.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I’m not including laws that simply incentivize clean energy or those that fund pure science, even though both are vitally important parts of climate policy. Climate first cropped up in the Clean Air Act of 1970. Next up was the Global Climate Protection Act of 1987 , which was signed by Ronald Reagan.

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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. In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court.

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

The spending bills largely include increases for ecological science programs, in line with the discretionary spending increases included in the President’s Budget Request (see ESA Policy News July 1, 2022 , ESA Policy News June 20, 2022 & Federal Budget Tracker ). Comments must be submitted by July 28, 2022.

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