Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

What’s most remarkable is that the decision calls for a 45% reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions–of not only its own but also those of its customers–within less than a decade. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. These lawsuits face three key barriers.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Rising sea levels and increased intensity of storm surges are playing a considerable role in the degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands. Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Photo credit. Written by: Jack McCulloch. Shows a generally increasing trend. Source: NASA (August 2018).

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Edouard Stenger

AUGUST 21, 2017

It is worth noting that if all ice melt in Antarctica, sea level would rise by 60 meters (around 200 feet). This could increase the speed of climate change even more as this greenhouse gas is 24 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Time is running out… Image credits: European Space Agency, Lake Chad, 2007.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. 497 (2007), the Supreme Court reversed EPA’s denial. Bush had already “established a comprehensive global climate change policy.” EPA , 549 U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

EPA lawsuit—Landry joined 18 other AGs, including Paxton and AGs from Mississippi and South Carolina, on a letter to two Senate committees urging them to vote against tighter restrictions on methane emissions, which are considerably worse for the climate than carbon dioxide.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. EPA that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases fall within the Clean Air Act’s capacious definition of “air pollutant.” The Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld EPA’s authority “to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions from powerplants” (see, for example, Am.

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