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World’s Biggest Court Opinion on Climate

Legal Planet

To recap: The unanimous opinion found that nations of the world have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. EPA is renouncing its ability to even regulate greenhouse gases as a threat to human health.

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100 Days of Trump 2.0: Considerations for Cities and Community Partners

Law Columbia

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund The IRAs Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) program is the largest of EPAs program terminations by dollars. The Endangerment Finding was EPAs 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and endanger public welfare.

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PJM Electric Auction Impacts: 1 In 5 PA Households Report Problems Now Paying Energy Bills; Electric Utility Shutoffs Up 38.1% So Far This Year

PA Environment Daily

Electricity Costs "You can see from 2006 to 2025, bills have almost doubled going from $55 to $98 [for baseload customers, meaning people who heat with some source other than electricity, so they could be heating with natural gas or kerosene or fuel oil]. Obviously to use more than this. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

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New York’s Climate Superfund Act Forces Polluters to Fund State Climate Adaptation Projects

Acoel

The Climate Superfund Act seeks to establish a vaguely analogous Superfund program to transfer the costs of addressing climate change from taxpayers and individuals onto the companies that have contributed most significantly to the buildup of climate change-driving greenhouse gases.

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EPA Pulls Back Regulations Setting Methane Emission Limits, Regulating Wastewater From Oil & Gas Operations, Risk Management Rule At Petrochemical Plants

PA Environment Daily

Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities.

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What Should EPA Do After Repealing the Clean Power Plan?

Legal Planet

The Clean Power Plan was based on section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. There’s been a lot of discussion among academics and advocates about instead using section 115 of the Clean Air Act as a basis for carbon regulations. Here are the options going forward for regulating existing power plants.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

But this also raises other questions: 1) Can we expect the season to continue to lengthen as global warming from increasing concentration of globally well mixed greenhouse gas (GWM-GHG) continues to warm the Atlantic SSTs? and European Clean Air Acts and Amendments of the 1970s ( Mann and Emanuel 2006 ; Dunstone et al.