Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

Image via PickPik On May 23, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed emission limits and guidelines for carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-powered plants. To avoid the same fate as the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, which was struck down by the conservative Supreme Court in West Virginia v.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

acres of commercial use on a 775-acre portion of the West Parcel and withdraw those lands from the TPZ zone, while designating the entire East Parcel as Forest and TPZ; upon approval, real parties would sell or restrict the East Parcel for conservation purposes in perpetuity. acres of commercial uses. City of Newport Beach (2017) 2 Cal.5th

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Energy Policy & Conservation Act (“EPCA”), are specifically tasked with administering two broad rebate programs for which individuals and building owners are eligible. States, Indian tribes, and air pollution control agencies are also eligible for funding. State energy offices, as defined under Section 124(a) of the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

USA: Stop the Formosa Plastics Plant Coalition Against Death Alley | 2021 As part of the fossil fuel industry’s push to increase North American plastic production by 35 percent by 2025(1), Formosa Plastics is planning to build a massive petrochemical industrial complex in St. USA: Formosa Plastics Corp.,

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2022

The idea that agencies need especially clear authority for really important regulations is one that the Court’s conservatives invented. EPA pollution rules nearly always require pollution control measures of one kind or another to be implemented at the polluting facility. That brings us to the West Virginia case.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

‘Methane pollution, however, is a global problem. Fossil fuel pollution, including methane, is the leading environmental threat to children’s health worldwide, robbing our children and loved ones from reaching their full God-given potential.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

Final Form Regulation 7-559 authorizes Pennsylvania’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) under the authority of the Air Pollution Control Act. As a pro-life Christian, I am deeply concerned that pollution harms unborn and born children and causes damage that lasts a lifetime.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

New Jersey Federal Court Remanded Hoboken’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies to State Court. As a threshold matter, the court found that it would not be prudent to wait for federal courts of appeal to issue decisions in fossil fuel companies’ appeals of remand orders in other climate change cases. Missouri v.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

The plan relied on a mix of potential actions by states and power companies likely to include shifting from fossil fuel to renewable sources of energy. Nonetheless, conservative states and coal companies filed a group of petitions asking the Supreme Court to overturn the DC Circuit’s decision.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2021

Billion Meant For Conservation -- DEP: Issues Air Quality Action Day Warning For Friday, Aug. 19 - Biodiversity Jam [PaEN] -- Governor’s Office: Publishes Latest Catalog Of Nonregulatory Documents [PaEN] -- PA Bulletin: Dept.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Supreme Court denied fossil fuel companies’ petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the Ninth Circuit’s decision reversing the district court’s 2018 denial of Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change nuisance cases to California state court. DECISIONS & SETTLEMENTS. On June 14, 2021, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

13, 14, 15 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 11:00: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 2075 (Knowles-R- Schuylkill) abrogating DEP’s air pollution control regulations covering heavy-duty trucks [Note: DEP already suspended enforcement of these regulations November 6 - Read more here.];

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. In addition, the company filed an appeal with the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board. Department of Interior , No.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. For the first time, the pact calls for a “phase down” the use of coal and fossil fuel subsidies. billion to support Indigenous conservation of forests. The Corporation for National and Community Service receives $6.9

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

billion to support Indigenous conservation of forests. Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of 2023. million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. Wealthy countries and global charities also pledged $1.6

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ESA

MAY 15, 2023

International UAE spokesperson says that the world is not ready to “switch off” fossil fuels ahead of COP28. Conservation: Nine bipartisan Senators and Sen. NOAA and EPA – Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Proposal To Find That Michigan Has Satisfied Conditions on Earlier Approval. This bill provides $1.4

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