Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency's ability to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants under the federal Clean Air Act. EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Clean Power Plan was based on section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. There’s been a lot of discussion among academics and advocates about instead using section 115 of the Clean Air Act as a basis for carbon regulations. EPA might well get substantial reductions in carbon emissions this way.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. In the year 2023, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

On May 8, the PJM Interconnection issued a statement on the US Environmental Protection Agency's final rule setting New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and its potential impact on electric grid reliability. Friel-Otten, Rep. Abney Introduce Gov.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 8, 2017

of total United States greenhouse gas emissions, with passenger cars and light-duty trucks being the largest source. of the Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to address this through emissions standards for air pollution from cars and trucks. Transportation accounts for.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2022

No one of them is transformative standing alone, but their cumulative impact will be substantially cleaner air and lower carbon emissions. EPA proposed an unexpectedly strong expansion of the existing rules governing interstate air pollution. ” March 7. 18,000 cases of asthma onset in children.

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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2022

The Clean Power Plan has no practical significance today: the deadlines in the Plan have long since passed, and the U.S. The Trump Administration said that the second two prongs, involving shifts away from coal and toward renewables, went beyond EPA’s powers under the Clean Air Act.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Army Corps of Engineers acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it concluded that the overall project was not a “major federal action” pursuant to NEPA. The court ruled that the plaintiffs were precluded from raising this argument because they did not raise greenhouse gas issues during the administrative process. Sierra Club v.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington Supreme Court Invalidated Regulation of Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D. Environmental Council of Sacramento v.

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