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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of EPA’s 2024 Vehicle Emissions Standards

Law Columbia

The Sabin Centers brief underscores the essential role local governments play in addressing the climate crisis, highlighting their frontline position in mitigating and managing climate impacts. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. In so doing, they rely on strong leadership from EPA to reduce emissions from vehicles themselves.

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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Considerations for Cities and Community Partners

Law Columbia

The OBBB Act ushers in a consequential shift for local governments and community groups building clean energy projects, investing in electric vehicles (EVs) and, in some instances, navigating IRA grant programs. This post focuses on developments and considerations specific to local governments and community partners.

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Rolling Back Vehicle Standards is Bad for Drivers, the Auto Industry, and Anything that Breathes

Union of Concerned Scientists

Decades of government vehicle standards to improve vehicle efficiency and cut down on tailpipe pollution have saved car and truck drivers trillions of dollars at the pump, saved countless lives from reduced exposure to toxic air pollution , and avoided the extraction and burning of billions of barrels of oil. In the U.S.,

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Trump’s Earth Day Purge

Circle of Blue

The agencies and institutions that sustained Americas program of environmental protection are being pulled into the government-wide purge of people and policies viewed as a threat to Trumps authoritarian impulses, and what his aides call the woke and weaponized bureaucracy.

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World’s Biggest Court Opinion on Climate

Legal Planet

China for its part is exporting enough solar panels, batteries and EVs that is helping to cut emissions 1% outside of China and will avoid some 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide over the lifetimes of the products, according to a new Carbon Brief analysis. state and keeping a lid on prices.”

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Sabin Center Submits Comment Letters on EPA’s Proposed Repeal of Power Plant GHG Emission Standards

Law Columbia

EPA’s 2024 Rule Under section 111 of the Clean Air Act, EPA must establish standards of performance for certain categories of stationary sources that “cause[ ], or contribute[] significantly to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.”

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Sabin Center Files Two Amicus Briefs Supporting EPA’s 2024 Power Plant Rules

Law Columbia

billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047. The Sabin Center’s two briefs highlight (1) the crucial role that local governments play in responding to the climate crisis and how EPA’s Power Plant Rules support local climate action; and (2) the maturity of CCS technology which will allow EPA’s standards to be met at power plants.