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Recentering Environmental Law: A Thought Experiment

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We thought that the key to reducing air pollution was to require better pollution control devices. Instead, we would have understood that the root problem was the burning of fossil fuels in the first place. We would have started pumping money into renewable energy research.

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Biden’s Proposed Power Plant Rule is a Solid First Step

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Image via PickPik On May 23, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed emission limits and guidelines for carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-powered plants. To avoid the same fate as the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, which was struck down by the conservative Supreme Court in West Virginia v.

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Why the New Climate Reg for Coal is a Perfectly Normal EPA Rule

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Is EPA’s new climate rule a sneaky effort to eliminate coal or a valid pollution standard? Some new arguments made by EPA convince me that it’s pursuing a time-tested approach to pollution control. It’s not that EPA is trying to grind down the industry.

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Defending EPA’s Authority to Fight Climate Change – at the Supreme Court

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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 Clean Power Plan never went into effect.

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Cities & the Inflation Reduction Act

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Energy Policy & Conservation Act (“EPCA”), are specifically tasked with administering two broad rebate programs for which individuals and building owners are eligible. Clean Air Act appropriating $2.25 States, Indian tribes, and air pollution control agencies are also eligible for funding.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

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Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plans and a combined $19.4 million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. For the first time, the pact calls for a “phase down” the use of coal and fossil fuel subsidies.

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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

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billion to support Indigenous conservation of forests. Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of 2023. Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plan and a combined $19.4

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