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Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
In 1965, scientists sent LBJ a memo mentioning the risks of climate change. We thought that the key to reducing air pollution was to require better pollution control devices. We would have started pumping money into renewable energy research. I magine if history had been a little different.
Legal Planet
JANUARY 25, 2022
EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Our client is Tom Jorling, a former Senate staffer and EPA official who was directly involved in drafting the Act in 1970. (We The court then paused the litigation while EPA revisited the issue.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 31, 2023
Record-setting heat , heavy rains, and wildfires scientifically linked to climate change are causing devastating and costly harm to people and communities across the country. Done right, a transformative shift to clean energy can also be a tremendous boon to community well-being, public health, and the economy.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
All across the country, coal- and gas-fired power plants are still running, still polluting, and still showing signs of staying relentlessly online. Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 14, 2023
JM: Quite simply, if we don’t clean up the power sector, we won’t get anywhere close to reducing the amount of carbon emissions needed to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. EN: These standards—or at least something based on the same Clean Air Act provision—have been in the works for a long time.
Law Columbia
MARCH 13, 2023
EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. Conference of Mayors (USCOM).
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 149. With respect to climate change, the D.C.
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