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The US Supreme Court is Operating Like a Rogue EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

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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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

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. New Jersey Appellate Court Affirmed State Authority to Take Easements for Coastal Protection Projects. FEATURED CASE.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

In an unpublished judgment, the court rejected the petitioners’ other NEPA arguments regarding project design and capacity and cumulative ozone impacts.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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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

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 Policy News: May 4, 2023

ESA

The workshop brought together public health, natural resource management and environmental protection experts to discuss what research can bridge the gaps in understanding between public health and ecological health systems. NOAA NMFS – Proposed Rule To List the Sunflower Sea Star as Threatened Under the Endangered Species Act.

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Policy News: April 25, 2022

ESA

Forest Service , the Department of Agriculture , the Department of Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency this week regarding the agencies’ Fiscal Year 2023 budget requests. Representative to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation Meetings (April 28). More News: Deep Dive: USICA – Punchbowl News.

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