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Conservation 2024 Waste Natural Gas 82

Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2022

EPA pollution rules nearly always require pollution control measures of one kind or another to be implemented at the polluting facility. The Trump Administration argued on similar grounds that it could not consider emissions trading or even changes in the fuel mix at coal fired plants.

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Carbon Emissions Politics Regulations Fossil Fuels 246

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. In addition, the company filed an appeal with the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board. Millennium Bulk Terminals-Longview, LLC v.

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2017 Clean Air Act Climate Change Clean Water Act 40

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

New Jersey Federal Court Remanded Hoboken’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies to State Court. As a threshold matter, the court found that it would not be prudent to wait for federal courts of appeal to issue decisions in fossil fuel companies’ appeals of remand orders in other climate change cases.

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2021 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Fossil Fuels 40

Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

The challenge originates with the Obama Administration’s 2015 Clean Power Plan , which required states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants by 32 percent (below 2005 levels) by 2030, in line with the national commitment under the Paris Agreement. The Clean Power Plan never went into effect.

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Climate Change Clean Air Act Air Pollution Greenhouse 162

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Given the EPA has the responsibility and the obligation to address carbon pollution, these standards—the first to limit carbon emissions from existing coal- and gas-fired power plants—are long overdue. Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S. Last year, wind generated 10.2

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Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions Nitrogen Oxides Clean Air Act 290

ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

World leaders have made several major commitments at the meeting to date: Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. More than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation by 2030. and the European Union are leading the policy commitments to reduce methane emissions.

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2021 Endangered Species Act Technology Technology 98

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The pact recognizes that world’s countries would need to reduce global carbon emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 levels to limit warming to 1.5 For the first time, the pact calls for a “phase down” the use of coal and fossil fuel subsidies. More than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation by 2030. 3, 2021.

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2021 Conservation Endangered Species Act Climate Change 105

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Supreme Court denied fossil fuel companies’ petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the Ninth Circuit’s decision reversing the district court’s 2018 denial of Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change nuisance cases to California state court. DECISIONS & SETTLEMENTS. On June 14, 2021, the U.S.

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2021 Climate Change Greenhouse Fossil Fuels 49