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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 23, 2023
And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. pollution, which are particles with diameters of 2.5 In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7 A bit more on those reasons later. micrometers or less. million deaths globally.
Law Columbia
APRIL 25, 2024
Image by Maxim Tolchinskiy (Unsplash) In November of 2022, when the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) proposed new rules to control venting, flaring, and leaks from oil and gas leases on federal land (the “Fossil Fuel Waste Rule”), they noted that these leasing rules would have an enormous ancillary climate benefit.
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Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Labor Day is a good time to talk about an important topic: the impact of environmental regulation on jobs. In support of his deregulation campaign, President Trump promised to “cancel every needless job-killing regulation and put a moratorium on new regulations until our economy gets back on its feet.” manufacturing jobs.
Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2024
Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. None of these apply to the new car rule: The new rule is based on a legal provision that EPA has applied for decades to regulate cars, rather than an obscure and rarely used legal provision. Download as PDF
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 1, 2022
First, the conservatives struck down New York’s requirement for gun owners to prove why they should be allowed to pack heat in public. The Supreme Court sharply limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to slash carbon pollution from power plants. The Supreme Court is ignoring the science on health.
Legal Planet
APRIL 24, 2023
EPA , conservatives and industry interests have claimed that just about every new regulation violates the major question doctrine. When the Biden Administration ramped up fuel efficiency requirements through 2026, ideologues such as the Heartland Institute and states like Texas were quick to wheel out this attack.
Law Columbia
APRIL 18, 2023
Since 2019, more than seventy local and state jurisdictions have followed Berkeley’s lead in requiring or strongly incentivizing all-electric or fossil-fuel-free new buildings, with more considering similar approaches. Berkeley : Berkeley’s Ordinance Preempted by U.S. Under EPCA, the U.S.
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