Legal Planet
APRIL 4, 2023
The sector—including personal transportation like passenger cars, as well as air, marine, and surface goods and people movement—is the largest source of greenhouse gasses in the U.S.: But, as our panelist Beth Osborne has argued , greenhouse-gas reductions will also depend on reducing the amount of driving we do in general.
MGKF Law
AUGUST 2, 2023
The panel’s reasoning focused on a close statutory reading of §7410 of the CAA, which prevents EPA from approving any SIP revision that would “interfere with any applicable requirement for attainment and reasonable further progress” in reaching the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (“NAAQS”).
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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 10, 2023
Burning gas and coal leads to carbon dioxide emissions and air pollutants. Air pollutants contribute to all of the leading causes of death, such as heart disease, strokes, cancer, and respiratory illness. Now we have increasing evidence air pollution contributes to dementia as well.
Enviromental Defense
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
If passed, this new law would finally put an end to the millions of tonnes of coal – the world’s dirtiest and deadliest fossil fuel – that are shipped overseas from Canada’ west coast every year. Not only does burning coal contribute massively to rising greenhouse gas emissions, it also endangers people’s health.
Law Columbia
MAY 28, 2021
Building electrification requirements – at times called “natural gas bans,” including on this blog – are subject to a complicated interplay of federal, state and local law, and many local governments have been found or determined themselves to be preempted from one or more approaches.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 21, 2023
But while greenhouse gas emissions may be reduced, a delivery fulfilled by a diesel-burning truck may lead to increases in emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and lung-damaging particulate matter. While the latter part of this conclusion is obvious, the former part isn’t as much.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The scoping process has been key to California’s success in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The State of New York most recently adopted the scoping process as part of an aggressive new scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)
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