Air Pollution Politics Regulations 
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
On November 8, the California Air Resources Board, or CARB, is slated to consider approving amendments to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard. We progress despite regular cries of impending doom from regulated industries and their enablers. But it’s never easy. It’s what CARB must do again now.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 9, 2024
If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. This is a major federal law that governs if a chemical will be regulated, limited, or even banned.
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Legal Planet
AUGUST 18, 2022
One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. If a carbon tax were politically feasible, there would be a lot to be said in its favor. If a carbon tax were politically feasible, there would be a lot to be said in its favor. Americans just don’t buy the idea.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 12, 2024
While municipalities may have some flexibility in how they zone or regulate oil and gas operations – provided they do not exceed limitations in state or federal law – doing so in an unreasonable manner which prevents future natural gas development should render the municipality ineligible for state collected and distributed impact fees.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 26, 2021
The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. Lucas appeared at the time to be the start of a sweeping constitutional attack on environmental and land use regulations. EPA , the Obama Administration issued a series of regulations dealing with greenhouse gases.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation. The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. Download as PDF
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
I’ve written previously about how the truck industry is fighting regulations at the state and federal level with everything they’ve got. One of the scare tactics truck manufacturers have been pushing is the old industry canard of job-killing regulations. Why would truck regulations impact jobs?
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