Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

The combined impact of this litigation – preventing the emission of hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide and other destructive pollutants – arguably ranks this among South Africa’s most successful public interest litigation campaigns. While not binding, the report adds to the pressure on the government to revise its plans.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

leader in cleaning up the light duty fleet quietly released its own proposal in August: the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed to improve fuel economy of passenger cars and trucks steadily from 2027 through 2032 and heavy-duty pickups and vans from 2030 to 2035.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Compared to a baseline business-as-usual scenario, CARB estimates the ACF will reduce climate-warming emissions from the state’s truck fleet by more than 40 percent by 2050, equating to a reduction of about 300 million metric tons of carbon dioxide over this timeframe. The rule would also reduce NOx and PM2.5 Public Agency Fleets.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 15, 2021

According to an assessment by the Center for American Progress , the Gulf of Mexico lease sale could eventually result in the emission of more than 700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. The federal government should offer no additional offshore oil and gas leases. The sale—reported to be the largest in U.S.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

It would require standardized reporting of GHG emissions (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) by firms doing business in California with total annual revenues more than $1 billion. [19] The vote on it was 24-9. Scope 2 emissions are those attributable to producing the energy (principally electricity) that the company buys.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Even one of the core statutes governing ConocoPhillips’s rights under these existing leases, the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act, directs the Biden administration to constrain the exercise of existing lease rights to limit environmental harm. That blinkering is more a symptom of weak political will than of weak law.

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Q: The federal government raised some threshold argument about standing and other issues. That again contrasts with the Clean Power Plan, which governed existing sources, requiring them to reduce or cease operations or retrofit their plants. Did those get any traction with the judges in the Texas case? Thanks again, Dan.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

On December 8, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability (EO), which aims to set the federal government — the largest purchaser in the country with an annual purchasing power of $650 billion — on a path to net zero emissions by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

Decades of government vehicle standards to improve vehicle efficiency and cut down on tailpipe pollution have saved car and truck drivers trillions of dollars at the pump, saved countless lives from reduced exposure to toxic air pollution , and avoided the extraction and burning of billions of barrels of oil. In the U.S.,

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