Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Oliver Schmidt had previously pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act and conspiracy to defraud the US government in August for his role in Dieselgate, where VW was found to have used hidden software to hide the fact that many of its cars weren’t meeting emissions standards.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Oliver Schmidt had previously pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act and conspiracy to defraud the US government in August for his role in Dieselgate, where VW was found to have used hidden software to hide the fact that many of its cars weren’t meeting emissions standards.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Oliver Schmidt had previously pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act and conspiracy to defraud the US government in August for his role in Dieselgate, where VW was found to have used hidden software to hide the fact that many of its cars weren’t meeting emissions standards.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Cost benefit analysis for Clean Air Act regulations has a tortuous history, which just got more twisted. In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled in Whitman v. The Supreme Court clouded Clean Air Act cost benefit analysis in its decision in Michigan v. Biden reasoned that E.O

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 23, 2023

That bill, introduced in 2001 and passed the next year, told the California Air Resources Board to create such standards using ARB’s special powers under the Clean Air Act to develop more strict air pollution controls for cars than the federal government (explained here ). Frank Pallone, Jr.,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Oliver Schmidt had previously pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act and conspiracy to defraud the US government in August for his role in Dieselgate, where VW was found to have used hidden software to hide the fact that many of its cars weren’t meeting emissions standards.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Oliver Schmidt had previously pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act and conspiracy to defraud the US government in August for his role in Dieselgate, where VW was found to have used hidden software to hide the fact that many of its cars weren’t meeting emissions standards.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

In this opinion dealing with a fairly technical issue under the Clean Air Act, Justice Stevens strengthened judicial deference to administrative agencies. American Trucking Ass’ns, 531 457 (2001) (Justice Scalia). This case was a deviation from Scalia’s pattern: he voted to uphold EPA’s air quality standards.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

The bill also would establish a grant program under the Safe Drinking Water Act for assistance to community water systems affected by PFAS to pay for capital costs associated with treatment technologies. The House bill ( H.R. 31225 (June 11, 2021).]] The comment period on the ANPRM closed on July 26, 2021.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

During the Trump administration, ESA submitted comments opposing the Forest Service’s proposal to exempt the Tongass National Forest in Alaska from the 2001 Roadless Rule, noting that the Tongass stores a large amount of carbon and fuels productive and commercially important marine ecosystems. EPA – Great Lakes Advisory Board Meeting (Dec.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The rule reinstates protections created by the Forest Service’s 2001 Roadless Rule. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. EPA – Request for Nominations to the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. Comments must be received on or before Feb.

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