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Ask a Scientist: UCS Transportation Program Adds Equitable Mobility to its Portfolio

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. Many transportation professionals now acknowledge this sorry legacy and want to do something about it.

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

Units with existing advanced NOx controls must optimize their utilization by 2023. This level of forced retirements is far in excess of any prior EPA projections of plant shutdowns resulting from implementation of a Clean Air Act rulemaking. EPA MATS Regulatory Impact Analysis, 2011.

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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule: Interrogating Preemption and Coherence with Other Domestic Regimes

Law Columbia

Current estimates are that the law will impact over 10,000 companies, which will have to draft a report every two years, beginning January 1, 2026, and publish it on their own website. The SEC’s regime is an investor protection program, and nowhere in the SEC’s rule does a stated goal of pollution control or GHG emission reduction appear.

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The Problems with the SCOTUS ‘Good Neighbor’ Arguments

Legal Planet

This Rule continues to use the same time-tested, court-affirmed methodology EPA has long used to identify cost-effective pollution controls and equitably allocate reductions among upwind States. The Clean Air Act directs lawsuits challenging EPA’s disapprovals of the inadequate state plans to the D.C.

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Cities & the Inflation Reduction Act

Law Columbia

Clean Air Act appropriating $2.25 An additional appropriation of $750 million is made for the same set of activities in ports located in nonattainment areas, as designated under Section 107 of the Clean Air Act. States, Indian tribes, and air pollution control agencies are also eligible for funding.

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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

Law Columbia

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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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

ESA

EPA – Draft FY 2022-2026 Environmental Protection Agency Strategic Plan. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. Nominations should be provided on or before Nov. Comments must be received on or before Nov.

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