Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards. Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. The history of these pollution standards is quite distinctive. Congress adjusted the standards twice.

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 27, 2023

Dan Farber at Legal Planet recently posted on "Cars, Smog, and EPA" An excerpt: For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx [nitrogen oxides] standards for new cars itself. That’s quite different from the standards for industrial pollution sources, which Congress has always delegated to EPA.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004). Photo Gallery Image Coca Cola Protests at World Social Forum, 2004, Mumbai, India PHOTO Knut-Erik Helle Read More Image Protesting Coca-Cola PHOTO Adolfo Lujan Read More Image Protest gegen Coca Cola photo Rettet den Regenwald e.V.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

PVC plants operated by Formosa in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and in Point Comfort, Texas, have also been subject to numerous protests over pollution and elevated cancer rates. Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This legal battle has both a long history and enormous implications for California’s aggressive pollution control and climate change policies. It was not until: 1) California began to aggressively regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles in 2004; the Supreme Court ruled in its landmark Massachusetts v.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

This proposed rule contrasts the Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2004 and 2009 determinations that the species did not warrant protections. EPA and NOAA – Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Proposal To Find That Louisiana Has Satisfied All Conditions of Approval Placed on Its Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program.

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