Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Another development with multi-state implications involves electric vehicles. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the unique ability to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from new vehicles, including greenhouse gases. That’s going to make it feasible for state regulators to be a lot more aggressive.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

The ongoing pollution from these power plants is an affront to public health and wildly incompatible with every climate ambition this country —and this world—has. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation. So what follows from that obligation?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Clean Power Plan (CPP) was the Obama Administration’s signature climate effort. This 2015 regulation aimed to move state power grids away from coal and toward renewable energy. Yet the Supreme Court is now set to address numerous challenges to this zombie regulation. The Clean Power Plan was a noble effort.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

In late December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations for the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit. The tax credit, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, provides a generous incentive for the production of clean hydrogen.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Governor made clear any energy policy supported by his Administration must meet his three-part test of protecting and creating energy jobs; taking real action to address climate change; and ensuring reliable, affordable power for consumers in the long term.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

electricity generation in future years, primarily use natural gas to create electricity. The draft white paper is an important step forward in EPA’s efforts to engage communities and the power sector on strategies to improve clean air and reduce climate pollution in the years ahead. “As

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. None of these apply to the new car rule: The new rule is based on a legal provision that EPA has applied for decades to regulate cars, rather than an obscure and rarely used legal provision. The rule is not unprecedented.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is still awaiting funding to craft the regulations needed to implement the laws, though it has indicated it will begin the process soon. However, the existence of federal regulations on the same subject as a state law does not mean that state law is necessarily preempted. 218 (1947)).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Since the beginning of 2022, electric vehicle sales in the United States have been downright electrifying. Last year, US drivers bought more than 800,000 new electric vehicles (EVs), 65 percent more than in 2021, even as overall car sales declined. Given the climate crisis, which seems to worsen every day, the sooner the better.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund have just launched IRAtracker.org. Source: iratracker.org The IRA is this country’s largest climate investment to date. For example, by selecting “EPA” on the database homepage, users can see a list of the IRA programs EPA is responsible for implementing.

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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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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

EPA last year, the new draft rule does not determine emission limits based on “generation shifting,” or the closure of fossil fuel-powered plants in favor of cleaner sources of electricity. Still, the fact that this draft rule follows the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”) has enabled the EPA to be relatively stringent.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) 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. and non-U.S.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

EPA , conservatives and industry interests have claimed that just about every new regulation violates the major question doctrine. The regulations coming out of the EPA and the Transportation Department are the most expensive in U.S. They are designed to remake, not to regulate, our energy systems.”

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

After weeks of hints and leaks, yesterday morning (May 11, 2023), EPA proposed a new rule regulating emissions from power plants. It was the at the core of the previous challenge to President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which the Supreme Court rejected in West Virginia v. Emphasis added.] The Court rejected this approach.

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Legal Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Does this decision increase the threat that EPA’s proposed new regulations will be struck down under this doctrine? The Court painted a picture of the loan forgiveness program that is worlds away from the regulations EPA is considering. EPA does not claim “virtually unlimited power to rewrite” the Clean Air Act.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Acoel

JULY 25, 2022

To borrow a page from his playbook, let’s consider a bold, “all-in” strategy to combat climate change – one that includes aggressive and timely actions by the states to abate greenhouse gas emissions. EPA is a significant setback for the Biden Administration and its efforts to address climate change.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a set of new rules intended to create a consistent, comparable, and reliable source of information regarding climate change impacts and sustainability efforts to inform and protect investors while facilitating further innovation in this evolving area. Background.

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Law and Environment

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As I noted late last month , the Edison Electric Institute filed an amicus in that case in support of EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The big take-away from this decision is its link to West Virginia v. EPA , on the SCOTUS docket for this term.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The South Coast Air Basin includes portions of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties and all of Orange County, covering 6,745 square miles. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

The majority opinion in the OSHA vaccine case essentially characterizes the OSHA regulation more a general public health rule than a workplace safety rule, because it is not tied to the risks of particular types of workplaces or industries. EPA , which involves the scope of EPA’s authority to restrict carbon emissions from power plants.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

"Natural gas pipelines are ubiquitous in our neighborhoods, cities, parks and rural communities and pipeline leaks are both safety risks, and a source of methane pollution that accelerates climate change,” said Erin Murphy, Senior Attorney for Environmental Defense Fund. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Environmental regulation. EPA and agencies have dozens of guidance documents and regulations about analytical methods to be used for environmental samples. Based on regulations and scientific knowledge, commercial laboratories have an established suite of chemicals they typically look for in environmental samples. Limitations.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

And while we’ve begun to transition away from oil and gas for our cars and electricity, the oil and gas industry has responded by investing its vast financial resources in a new source of demand for their products: new production for plastic materials and packaging.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19,

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19,

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Germany: Activists throw cake amid protest at Volkswagen meeting DW | May 11, 2023 The climate change and human rights activists targeted Volkswagen executives at the German carmaker's AGM. Climate Activists in Germany Glued Themselves to the Volkswagen Showroom Floor John Lopez | Tech Times | October 20, 2022 On Wednesday, Oct.19,

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. The Human Impacts on Climate.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Clean Air Regulations have focused on reducing the emissions of new cars, new factories and new power plants. Old cars, old factories and old power plants have often been "grandfathered" and haven't faced regulations. In this case, the cause is the new regulations and the effect is environmental progress.

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