2021 Clean Air Act Politics 
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 26, 2023
What has not been abundant is the political will to enact these reforms, and CARB’s reluctance to initiate a rulemaking reflects this trend. It won’t be easy to find a regulatory pathway that properly abates methane emissions, improves community health outcomes, and is politically palatable. To CARB, installing digesters is a win-win.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
“DEP’s job is to protect people and the environment from pollution, and increasing minimum setback distances from fracking sites should be an obvious next step to protect everyone in the Commonwealth regardless of one’s politics.” There is no evidence that shale gas development can be done without harm to human health,” said Alison L.
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Environment, Law, and History
MAY 6, 2022
Press of Kansas, 2021). Nevertheless, despite Nixon’s waning interest in environmental issues, Republican members of Congress continued to find common ground with Democratic colleagues even as the toxic political bitterness of the Watergate scandal embroiled the nation.
MGKF Law
APRIL 29, 2021
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.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Because these regulations are required under the Clean Air Act, failure to submit them in final form to U.S. EPA by December 16, 2022, will result in EPA imposing non-discretionary sanctions, and the federal government would thus withhold nearly $1 billion of transportation funding ? Williams, Esq.,
Law Columbia
MARCH 14, 2024
Under the CERCLA approach adopted by the Climate Superfund bills, large fossil fuel producers and refiners are held strictly liable for costs arising from their products’ GHG emissions, regardless of whether they are deemed to have acted improperly. In a 2021 appellate decision, City of New York v.
Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2023
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) represent a radical change in federal climate policy. To a certain extent, this is because of political and procedural constraints: The IIJA relied on center-right supporters, such as the U.S. RSVP here !
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