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Green on Top: Zoning Against Climate Change with Green-Roof Legislation

Vermont Law

green-roofs can cut the urban global warming contributions in half and could reduce urban carbon emissions dramatically. Correspondingly, in the US, land use laws aim at environmental protection after urban development but no specific regulation addresses the UHIE. According to meteorological simulations. The EPA maintains.

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Should New Gas Stoves Be Banned?

Union of Concerned Scientists

ignited the controversy last Monday when he said his agency, which regulates dangerous household products, should consider banning gas stoves because of the threat they pose to public health and the environment. The EPA, however, does not have the authority to regulate indoor air pollution from household appliances. in just one day.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters.