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What’s Up With the Supreme Court?

Law and Environment

Of course, the EEI did so to ensure that the Clean Air Act continues to act as a shield against private tort actions over carbon emissions, but still. It’s difficult to call this Court conservative. They are not per se anti-technology, but it does appear that this Court’s real complaint is with modernity itself.

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

Legal Planet

First, EPA’s preferred technology to limit carbon emissions — carbon capture and storage (CCS) — isn’t just pie in the sky. In any event, the industry’s problem isn’t really due to EPA’s ambitious choice of CCS as a technology.

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What’s Up With the Supreme Court?

Acoel

Of course, the EEI did so to ensure that the Clean Air Act continues to act as a shield against private tort actions over carbon emissions, but still. It’s difficult to call this Court conservative. They are not per se anti-technology, but it does appear that this Court’s real complaint is with modernity itself.

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The New EPA Car Rule Doesn’t Violate the Major Questions Doctrine

Legal Planet

EPA , the Supreme Court struck down the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. EPA has decades of experience and expertise regarding vehicle technology. But the doctrine cannot be read that broadly. The rule is not unprecedented.

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Penn State: Switch From Coal To Natural Gas Reducing Sulfur Dioxide Emissions, Can Improve Water Quality In Some Streams

PA Environment Daily

Both technology and the shift of fuels have contributed to this trend. However, small datasets and new technologies that remove sulfur dioxide from emissions made it difficult to identify in the data the more recent shift from coal- to natural-gas-fired power plants. We wanted to look at how this trend has affected water quality.”

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Legal Tools for Achieving Low Traffic Zones (LTZs): New Sabin Center White Paper

Law Columbia

Clean Air Act, the U.S. Energy Policy & Conservation Act and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act. Reference to low emissions automobile technologies, such as hybrid or electric vehicles, may be considered proxies for fuel economy standards.

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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.