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NEPA in the Supreme Court: The Seven Counties Oral Argument

Legal Planet

Argument #3: The Court should narrow the scope of NEPA case because it was passed before the enactment of a bevy of other environmental statutes like the Clean Air Act. First, all the conservatives on the Court say they are textualists. This is a weird argument for two reasons.

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Yes, Virginia, There ARE Federal Climate Laws.

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I’m not including laws that simply incentivize clean energy or those that fund pure science, even though both are vitally important parts of climate policy. Climate first cropped up in the Clean Air Act of 1970. Next up was the Global Climate Protection Act of 1987 , which was signed by Ronald Reagan.

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Oil and Gas Industry’s Mating Call Strikes a Sour Note 

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API specifically targets Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules to reduce carbon emissions from automobile tailpipes and fuel economy standards established by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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Trump’s Seven Most Anti-Environmental Moves — and How to Push Back

Legal Planet

Key targets include regulations substantially limiting carbon emissions from coal-fired powerplants, cars, and trucks. But scores of other regulations are in the cross-hairs, such as energy efficiency standards that benefit consumers and a variety of rules that protect clean air and water. Attacking state policies.

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The Legal Complexities of Deregulating Power Plant Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

EPAs efforts to regulate carbon emissions from powerplants have had a tortuous history, and were about to go through another round, with a rule from a Democratic Administration being repealed and replaced by a Trump rule.

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President Trump’s Cabinet of Polluters, Frackers and Climate Crisis Deniers Rushes to Gut Protections

Union of Concerned Scientists

That finding , made under the Obama administration, girded federal efforts to reduce vehicle and industrial emissions. The finding, long a legal target for climate deniers, has so far held up , even in an ultra-conservative Supreme Court, but that has not stopped the administration from attacking it.

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Day After Earth Day, the Climate Pope, and the 89%

Legal Planet

One such survey involved 130,000 people in 125 countries, which account for 96% of the worlds carbon emissions, and was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Crucially, however, they thought only a minority of other people 43% would be willing to do the same. The arguments in Diamond Alternative Energy v.