Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003).

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Where, at the beginning, there was really only one input parameter (the CO 2 concentration) that needed to be coordinated, the inputs have now broadened to include myriad forcings related to other greenhouse gases, air pollution, land surface change, ozone, the sun, volcanoes, irrigation, meltwater etc.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

In late 2009, EPA made a formal finding often called the Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gases may endanger human health and welfare. Understanding the Endangerment Finding Two requirements must be met before a substance can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. First, it has to qualify as an air pollutant.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2024

According to Forensic Architecture, over 2,000 agricultural sites, including farms and greenhouses, have been obliterated since October 2023. Human Rights Watch reported that during the recent Gaza conflict , Israeli forces systematically bulldozed orchards, fields, and greenhouses, turning them into wastelands.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Three key takeaways from the court’s decision: The Court did not rule that EPA lacks authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants or other sources. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act authorizes EPA to address air pollution from both new and existing sources if the pollutant endangers public health or welfare.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

EPA, brought by a group of conservative/red states who challenge EPA’s approval of California’s request to adopt air pollution emission limits for motor vehicles more stringent than those issued by EPA. On Monday, the Court denied review in a separate but related case, Ohio v. Both lawsuits were originally filed in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

These findings followed from the landmark 2007 Mass v. EPA Supreme Court ruling which held that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. There is nothing mysterious about the heat-trapping attributes of greenhouse gases, nor their impact on public health.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Back in 2007, the Supreme Court reached a landmark judgment in Massachusetts et al. establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. This blatant attempt to do an end-run around scientific evidence deserves to fail.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The New York Times reported last week that the Biden administration is preparing to restore California’s waiver to set greenhouse gas auto emissions standards stricter than the federal government’s rules. This post is co-authored by Daniel Melling, communications manager at the Emmett Institute. The Mary D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Back in 2007, the Supreme Court reached a landmark judgment in Massachusetts et al. establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. This blatant attempt to do an end-run around scientific evidence deserves to fail.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. 497 (2007), the Supreme Court reversed EPA’s denial. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Several states and industry groups are challenging EPA’s 2024 rules which set greenhouse gas emissions limits for certain fossil fuel power plants nationwide (referred to here as the Power Plant Rules). This case will have a major impact on how and when power plants must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. In 2022’s West Virginia v.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The academic research and development report finds that biological and biomedical science and engineering have accounted for 60% of total research space growth from 2007 to 2019. EPA to cut greenhouse gases thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide – Washington Post. This pattern persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

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