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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. While the Governor’s veto message asserted that additional legislative direction was not necessary, communities in the Valley continue to suffer from serious air pollution.

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

Law Columbia

Reasonable assurance is proposed for 2030, providing corporations with several years to get their disclosures right. The oil and gas industry must also report on the Scope 3 carbon dioxide emissions resulting from utilization of their products, regardless of whether the products are used within the U.S.

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Emerging Local Legal Pathways for Building Electrification: Air Pollution and Land Use Regulation in New York City & Brookline, Massachusetts

Law Columbia

2317, which would amend the City’s building code to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new and renovated buildings to 50 kilograms of carbon dioxide per million BTUs. Under WA-26, buildings built with fossil fuels will receive special permits that expire in 2030, while buildings built without them (i.e.,

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EPA Finalizes Rule To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Infrastructure; DEP’s Oil & Gas Methane Regulations 1 Year Old

PA Environment Daily

Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. Read more here.]

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Guest Essay: Pennsylvania And Virginia Face Fight Of Their Lives - [What The Coal, Natural Gas Industries Want In PA ]

PA Environment Daily

It won’t exist either, since nothing can prevent carbon dioxide and other air pollutants emitted from power plants in Ohio or West Virginia from drifting across state lines. Even the most optimistic projections today show a CO2 reduction of less than 1% by 2030. And that clean air RGGI promises to deliver?

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U.S. Supreme Court v. EPA Climate Rule

Smith Enviorment

Supreme Court issued a decision striking down an Obama era rule regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants. The three dissenting justices, in an opinion written by Justice Kagan, noted that Section 111 directs EPA to select a system of pollution reduction rather than a pollution control technology.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Among the arguments rejected by the court was the contention that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency erred by failing to consider the effects of climate change in its analysis of whether the project would violate state water quality standards. On August 31, BOEM issued a record of decision for Lease Sale 257.

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