Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Westlaw searches for “global warming” and “greenhouse effect” pick up only a handful of citations before 1985. Now-Justice Breyer argued that it was misleading to consider the environmental impact of nuclear power without also considering the impact of alternatives such as coal. Awareness of the issue began slowly, however.

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Environment, Law, and History

JANUARY 12, 2022

Now-Justice Breyer argued that it was misleading to consider the environmental impact of nuclear power without also considering the impact of alternatives such as coal. For instance, Weiss wrote the year after the Superfund law was passed and barely a decade after the Clean Air Act went into effect.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Interior (DOI), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—to implement the IRA. This section appropriates $27 billion to EPA for the GGRF, including $7 billion for low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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