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Recentering Environmental Law: A Thought Experiment

Legal Planet

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. We would have started pumping money into renewable energy research. And we would have created incentives for clean energy sources.

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Vehicle Regulations on Trial

Legal Planet

EPA In this case, rightwing state Attorney Generals and fuel supplier are suing to block EPA’s regulations for greenhouse gases in motor vehicles, which were promulgated under the Clean Air Act. EPA, where EPA was trying to shift from coal to renewable energy. The plaintiffs draw an analogy to West Virginia v.

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PennFuture President & CEO Jacquelyn Bonomo Announces Retirement; Matthew Stepp Named Interim President

PA Environment Daily

In between, Bonomo has had a front row seat to some of the most important conservation developments of the last four decades, working at the national level and in 24 states and U.S. Schweiger, nationally renowned climate activist and past president of National Wildlife Federation, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and PennFuture.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. State Air Resources Board , No.

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EPA Proposes New Power Plant Rule That Promises Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in the Coming Years

Law and Environment

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. Fossil power plants could offset emissions by investing in new natural gas and renewable energy generation sources. The Social Cost of Carbon has served as a punching bag for conservatives.

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Cities & the Inflation Reduction Act

Law Columbia

cities move toward their greenhouse gas reduction goals via a cleaner national electric grid, increased vehicle and building electrification, and new distributed renewable energy resources. Third , some funds will be routed through states and state energy offices. State energy offices, as defined under Section 124(a) of the U.S.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

What is Conservation? We define conservation as a broad approach to preserving what is already there and the due care and attention to protecting it for the future (1). Resource conservation is the active ways in which we seek to limit the use of resources to reduce the strain put on supply. Conservation, Ethics, Philosophy.