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West Virginia v. EPA Limits the Federal Government’s Power to Promote Clean Energy and Combat Climate Change

Law and Environment

The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. But a closer read suggests more sweeping, longer-term implications for incentivizing the development of clean energy projects nationwide. What does this mean for clean energy projects? What is the case about? .

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What is jurisdiction, and why is it important to climate change litigation?

Legal Planet

Local actors seek climate change damages from the biggest fossil fuel companies through state law litigation. EPA and the Supreme Court’s deregulatory trend, state action remains an avenue for climate change adaptation and mitigation. In climate change cases, the defendants are the oil and gas companies.

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Ask a Scientist: It’s Getting Easier for US Car Owners to Go Electric

Union of Concerned Scientists

Last year, US drivers bought more than 800,000 new electric vehicles (EVs), 65 percent more than in 2021, even as overall car sales declined. percent in 2021. Given the climate crisis, which seems to worsen every day, the sooner the better. Those 807,956 EVs accounted for 5.8 percent of all new cars sold, an increase from 3.1

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Climate Change Lawsuits Plague Oil and Gas Producers

Energy & the Law

The allegations in this 2018 suit are that fossil fuel companies concealed the effects of fossil fuels on climate change and disingenuously marketed their products to the harm of the people living in Boulder County. The State of Vermont sued Exxon and other oil companies in 2021. Suncor Energy . Defendants removed.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

Emanuel 2021 ; Hall et al. 2021 ; Knutson et al. and European Clean Air Acts and Amendments of the 1970s ( Mann and Emanuel 2006 ; Dunstone et al. 2021 ), and changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). 57-70, 2021. 1321-1335, 2021. 2020 ), many others do not.

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Livestock Operations Are Responsible for Over Half of California’s Methane Emissions—Why Won’t CARB Regulate Them?

Legal Planet

In the United States, we already have a model for regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act. As earlier as 2012, studies evaluated the applicability of greenhouse gas emissions trading programs to agriculture.

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Dismissal of New York City’s Climate Change Suit Affirmed by Second Circuit On Preemption Grounds

MGKF Law

Earlier this month, the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court for the Southern District of New York’s ruling that state common law claims against oil companies for costs resulting from climate change were either preempted by the Clean Air Act, or, in the case of foreign emissions, represented a non-justiciable political question.