Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In a blistering dissent over the 2022 decision to curtail the powers of the EPA on regulating power plant carbon dioxide emissions that fuel global warming, she said: “Whatever else this Court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change. The current court is silent on that.

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Ozone Earth Day Endangered Species Act Climate Change 221

Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

I was a very young cat, just turned 14 years old, when 20 million Americans celebrated the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Our exploits were documented by New York Times reporter Joseph Lelyveld in the second-to-last paragraph of a page one story on Earth Day in the next mornings paper.

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Earth Day Climate Change Environmental Protection Clean Air Act 325

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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