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The Ten Most Important U.S. Environmental Laws

Legal Planet

Clean Air Act. This law, signed on the first day of 1970, requires agencies to disclose the environmental effects of their actions. This marked the beginning of a decade of legislative environmental legislation. NEPA remains the workhorse of natural resource litigation today.

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EPA Strengthens Emissions Controls for Facilities Emitting Cancer-Causing Ethylene Oxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

We also found that co-located sterilization facilities, facilities in communities with higher cancer risks, and facilities that have violated the Clean Air Act are disproportionately near people of color, illustrating the vast disparities of who this pollutant impacts most. You can find our report and interactive map here.

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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

From 1960 to 2005, coal use grew more or less steadily by 18 million tons per year. The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued.

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The Profound Climate Implications of Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA Decision

Union of Concerned Scientists

EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. And here, the Court has struck a devastating blow.

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It’s Time to Repeal the Clean Power Plan

Legal Planet

When fully implemented, the Clean Power Plan was intended to cut carbon emissions 30% below the 2005 level by 2030. Yet the Supreme Court is now set to address numerous challenges to this zombie regulation. It’s time to put the CPP to rest. Compliance was set to begin in 2022, ramping up toward 2030 emission reduction goals.

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Will the EPA Strengthen Ethylene Oxide Standards Without Outside Interference?

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2005, the last time EPA updated emissions standards for commercial sterilizers, the agency contemplated banning the use of EtO for sterilization at new facilities, but that proposal was promptly scrapped due to concerns around viable sterilization alternatives.

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VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA, INC. AGREES TO PAY OVER $1 MILLION FOR CLEAN AIR ACT VIOLATION

Corp Watch

AGREES TO PAY OVER $1 MILLION FOR CLEAN AIR ACT VIOLATION Department of Justice PaulaR Mon, 08/28/2023 - 12:50 Saturday, June 25, 2005 Read more WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a Clean Air Act settlement with Volkswagen of America, Inc.