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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
This is despite the clean energy progress the power sector has experienced to date—and despite the groundwork laid for more progress from leading states, as well as the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). EPA ruling, EPA can still establish rigorous carbon emissions standards.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 1, 2022
Though the case caught fewer headlines, it, too, threatened Earth-shifting implications all its own by thrusting into question a critical EPA lever for addressing climate change. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 18, 2024
But hydrogen can be cleanly produced and, with the right guardrails in place, that clean hydrogen can then be used to clean up polluting parts of the economy that can’t readily convert to running on renewable electricity. Otherwise, hydrogen will slow the clean energy transition, not speed it. the “three pillars”).
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The Infrastructure Act provides $5 billion in funding for states to help develop a national EV charging network. Last month, DOE solicited applications from states to develop clean energy projects. The Inflation Reduction Act provides another important source of state funding. Download as PDF.
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 30, 2022
Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act. Today’s decision does not change how we must respond to climate change: boldly, quickly, and with love for our neighbors. Though this ruling is indeed disappointing, it does not alter reality.
ESA
JULY 1, 2022
At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.”
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 3, 2022
is a serious blow to the EPA’s ability to fight climate change—and could have dangerous repercussions beyond this case. The timing of the decision feels especially harsh, as the nation is in the throes of the “ Danger Season ” for hazards such as heat waves, drought, wildfires and hurricanes, all worsened by climate change.
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