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

Law Columbia

The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Kentucky v.

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EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc., Hilcorp Energy Company For Federal, State Clean Air Act Violations

PA Environment Daily

XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act and Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc. Specifically, by Dec. million to plug or remediate them.

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Zeldin Wants to “Reconsider” the EPA’s GHG Endangerment Finding. He Can’t Bury the Facts on Climate Science.

Union of Concerned Scientists

EPA Supreme Court ruling which held that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. Attacks on the Endangerment Finding and EPAs Clean Air Act authority from industry interests are nothing new. Court of AppealsD.C.

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Trump’s Pick for Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, is Wrong on Purpose. Here are the Facts. 

Union of Concerned Scientists

In the last sixty years, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has grown 100 times faster than it did at the close of the last ice age. Carbon pollution is pollution. Supreme Court, not the wind or solar industries, that forced the EPA to act on the basis of existing law, the Clean Air Act.

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Attribution Science and EPA’s Reconsideration of the GHG Endangerment Finding

Law Columbia

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding. EPA , that required EPA to make a science-based determination on the effects of GHG emissions. 7521(a)(1).

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

Law Columbia

Elective pay itself is untouched in the OBBB Act, but the aggressive phase-out of and additional restrictions imposed upon the underlying tax credits severely impact eligible entities’ ability to claim them via elective pay. Rescission and repeal of certain federal funding programs The OBBB Act has implications far beyond the tax code.

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Dissecting the Attacks on the Endangerment Finding

Legal Planet

In late 2009, EPA made a formal finding often called the Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gases may endanger human health and welfare. Understanding the Endangerment Finding Two requirements must be met before a substance can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. First, it has to qualify as an air pollutant.