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Grey Named to Denver Business Journal’s 2023 '40 Under 40' List

Arnold Porter

Grey counsels a wide array of clients on regulatory, policy, and compliance matters related to climate change, including the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, the Clean Air Act, and other state and international initiatives on transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

There may also be requirements on what technologies must be used for mitigation such as the use of catalytic converters in cars that used older lead fuel (6). The Clean Air Act is an excellent example of this following the publication of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. Learn more about environmental law degrees.

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States Filling the Void on Climate Change

Vermont Law

12, 2015, 195 countries signed the historic Paris Agreement creating a firm foundation for meaningful action on climate change through. The agreement, which entered into force on Nov. President Trump called the agreement unfair and harmful to the American economy. deep decarbonization. By contrast, former President.

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Defending EPA’s Authority to Fight Climate Change – at the Supreme Court

Legal Planet

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Our client is Tom Jorling, a former Senate staffer and EPA official who was directly involved in drafting the Act in 1970. (We The Clean Power Plan never went into effect.

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. The states asserted counts under the Administrative Procedure Act and of ultra vires action. The second petition was filed by a coal mining company. 66,496 (Dec.

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Climate Reregulation: Three Months In

Law Columbia

On Inauguration Day, the United States also began the process of rejoining the Paris Agreement. Once again, Administrator Regan has indicated that the EPA will exceed the Obama administration’s actions, explaining that the markets and technology have evolved to create room to act more ambitiously on regulating methane emissions.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Three of the responses and briefs supporting certiorari were filed by parties that intervened to defend the ACE Rule in the D.C. 1:21-cv-01268 (D.

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