Air Pollution Clean Air Act Law Politics 
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 2, 2023
That was his way as a political leader: working tirelessly and proactively to make connections and fight to ensure everyone had the right to a safe and healthy environment. Beverly Wright, Vernice Miller-Travis , and Peggy Shepard, among others, shows that Black and brown communities are disproportionately exposed to and harmed by pollution.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 26, 2021
The same is true in environmental law. Was it a fundamental paradigm shift, re-centering the law on new values? With all this in mind, here are the cases that I see as making up the canon and anti-canons of environmental law. The case involved the lynchpin of the Clean Air Act, EPA’s power to set national air quality standards.
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Legal Planet
AUGUST 22, 2023
States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.
Acoel
AUGUST 14, 2023
My presentation was titled: Environmental Disasters that Led to Environmental Laws. This presentation reminded me of how our environmental laws in this country have been enacted. As many of us know well, most major federal environmental laws were enacted on the heels of major environmental disasters. appeared first on ACOEL.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Legal Planet
APRIL 19, 2023
Wells Environmental Law Clinic and the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability have released a new report, Concentrated Overburden , that explores the connection between California’s history of racialized land use practices and environmental injustice throughout the state. The Frank G. Research conducted by students in the Frank G.
The Energy Law Blog
JULY 23, 2013
Specifically, Section 126(b) provides that: Any State or political subdivision may petition the Administrator for a finding that any major source or group of stationary sources emits or would emit any air pollutant in violation of the prohibition of [the “good neighbor” provision] or this section. 12-1022, slip op.
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