Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
We thought that the key to reducing air pollution was to require better pollution control devices. Instead, we would have understood that the root problem was the burning of fossil fuels in the first place. We would have started pumping money into renewable energy research.
Law Columbia
JANUARY 25, 2022
The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA).
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Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The PUC rejected the project even though it would produce fewer emissions than fossil fuels. The state’s Public Utility Commission (PUC) found that “the project would produce massive GHG emissions, and that the power plant’s promise of carbon neutrality rested on speculative, uncertain assumptions.”
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 14, 2023
The largest contributors to this deadly type of pollution come from human-made emission sources that burn fossil fuels, such as coal-fired power plants and vehicular emissions of diesel and gasoline. pollution, half of the deaths are attributable to the burning of fossil fuels. EPA’s PM 2.5 EPA’s PM 2.5
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 1, 2022
First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v.
Legal Planet
APRIL 3, 2023
EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Rules relating to renewable and fossil fuel development on public lands and offshore. Litigation against carbon emitters and fossil fuel producers G. Standing based on climate impacts C. Social Cost of Carbon D.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 31, 2023
The destruction we see today is a direct result of decades of dependence on fossil fuels, enabled by decades of deception and obstruction on the part of the fossil fuel industry, and prolonged by decades of inaction on the part of policymakers who have been in their thrall.
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