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Special Policy News #7: The Transition

ESA

The taskforce will “coordinate work across the [Interior] Department, including accelerating renewable energy development and identifying actions to foster investments in energy communities.”. Senate confirms Brenda Mallory as Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Applications are due by Apr.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson withdrew his lawsuit against the lead author and publisher of an article that critiqued an article by Jacobson and others on grid reliability and renewable energy. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility v. ExxonMobil Corp. applied federal common law. 1:18 -cv-00271 (D.D.C.,

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

This is defined as the ability or desire to sustain a resource at a certain level and based on three scientific principles: increased dependence on renewable energy, biodiversity, and chemical cycling. Some of the world's oldest environmental protections were designed with human health in mind. Key Current US Environmental Laws.

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The Trump Watch: What Does the New Administration Portend for the Environment?

Vermont Law

as a pollutant at all to the Clean Power Plan, which has no chance of clemency before its swift execution at some point in 2017. [14]. that it should “Amend the Clean Air Act to clarify that it never delegated to the EPA the authority to enact climate policies through the Act.”. [18].

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