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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. In May, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed standards for tackling carbon pollution from power plants.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Law Columbia
MARCH 29, 2024
Part Two considered the future of the climate disclosure rule in the context of the SEC’s rulemaking process. Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. Even so, cars and trucks are still making us sick—and killing us.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 22, 2023
States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 21, 2022
Environmental Protection Agency issued for public input a draft white paper on control techniques and measures that could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new stationary combustion turbines. On April 21, the U.S. These turbines, which are currently projected to be a significant part of U.S.
Corp Watch
MARCH 8, 2024
Oil giant Total is being sued by cities and NGOs for not fighting climate change hard enough Francois de Beaupuy | Fortune | January 28, 2020 Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for not doing enough to reduce its carbon emissions and fight global warming.
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