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Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases.

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Project 2025’s Assault on EPA, Human Health and the Environment Must Never Be Put into Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

This, along with many other chemicals, like diesel particulates and ground-level ozone that form soot and smog, and metals like lead in paint and drinking water, are regulated by the EPA to keep us safe. PFAS is shorthand for a class of “forever chemicals” that persist in the environment indefinitely.

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Dissecting the Attacks on the Endangerment Finding

Legal Planet

In late 2009, EPA made a formal finding often called the Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gases may endanger human health and welfare. In this post, Ill explain the 2009 finding, its significance, the specific arguments EPA is making, and why they are likely to fail. First, it has to qualify as an air pollutant.

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

ESA

White House: President Biden met with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology after a meeting of the council, which focused on efforts to improve monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate innovation in energy technology. In 2019, the Trump administration opted to keep ozone pollution standards the same.

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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

Law Columbia

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. These emissions standards were significantly loosened in the last year of the Trump Administration. Since Massachusetts v.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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