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Recentering Environmental Law: A Thought Experiment

Legal Planet

We thought that the key to reducing air pollution was to require better pollution control devices. Conventional pollution controls would have been seen as transition measures until the shift to clean energy, so the Clean Air Act would have been written differently.

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

Legal Planet

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. 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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Cities & the Inflation Reduction Act

Law Columbia

Only portions of the legislation apply directly to units of local government, but taken as a whole it can be expected to help U.S. Still, how does a local government tap in? There are six broad ways local governments will need to navigate the IRA. . There are six broad ways local governments will need to navigate the IRA. .

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U.S. Supreme Court Decision Did Not Affect EPA’s Ability To Regulate Carbon Dioxide As A Pollutant, Has No Impact On DEP's RGGI Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Program

PA Environment Daily

Environmental Protection Agency's ability to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants under the federal Clean Air Act. EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority.

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

Formosa Unit Offers $500 Million for Causing Toxic Disaster in Vietnam VOA | June 30, 2016 One of the biggest environmental disasters to hit Vietnam was caused by a unit of a Taiwanese conglomerate leaking toxic waste into the sea, the Hanoi government said Thursday, ending months of mystery and rare public outrage.

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

I named the Priority Pollutants a moment ago, which are 129 chemicals of interest under the Clean Water Act, RCRA, one of two federal laws governing hazardous wastes has several hundred “Appendix IX” groundwater monitoring compounds. Clean Water Act. The Clean Air Act.

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The fight over California’s greenhouse gas and ZEV car standards continues

Legal Planet

That bill, introduced in 2001 and passed the next year, told the California Air Resources Board to create such standards using ARB’s special powers under the Clean Air Act to develop more strict air pollution controls for cars than the federal government (explained here ).