Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

The US Supreme Court seems to have appointed itself as a rogue Environmental Protection Agency, seeking to protect polluters rather than the public. The plan cuts power plant and industrial ozone pollution that wafts from central parts of the nation into eastern states. A 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling (Chevron v.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.

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Government Law Waste Clean Air Act 52

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In an unpublished judgment, the court rejected the petitioners’ other NEPA arguments regarding project design and capacity and cumulative ozone impacts. In addition, the court found that BLM acted contrary to law by failing to consider a statutory directive to give “maximum protection” to surface values in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area.

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2021 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Fossil Fuels 40

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit Said EPA Decision to Expand Partial Vacatur of HFC Prohibition Required Notice and Comment.

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

The Biden administration is currently reviewing the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which replaced the Obama administration’s Waters of the U.S. Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency released its Climate Change Indicators report for the first time since 2016. Justice Dept.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency. This includes $936 million for a new Accelerating Environmental and Economic Justice initiative. EPA – National Environmental Justice Advisory Council Meetings (June 17). EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. Overall, President Biden requested $6.9

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