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The case involved the lynchpin of the CleanAirAct, EPA’s power to set national air quality standards. In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sealevel rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit. American Trucking Associations. Army Corps of Engineers. Michigan v.
First, new research has traced to just 90 fossil fuel firms the following percentages of anthropogenic carbondioxide and methane emissions, global mean surface temperature (GMST), and global sealevel rise (GSL): From 1880 to 2010: GHGs: 57% GMST: 42–50% GSL: 26–32%. From 1980 to 2010: GHGs: 43% GMST: 29–35% GSL: 11–14%.
The database does not include six Congressional references to sealevel rise (such as in appropriations to the Department of Defense to help preparing military bases) that did not explicitly mention climate change. That approach would have required a shift from coal to energy sources that emit less carbondioxide.
EPA, as well as state and municipal governments, use the information received from reporting entities to inform the development and implementation of rules and regulations prescribed by the CleanAirAct (CAA). The GHGRP includes Scope 1 emissions, which must be reported at the individual facility level.
In a 2022 press release introducing New York’s then-unprecedented Climate Superfund bill, one of the bill’s sponsors directly stated that the bill was inspired by source attribution research (specifically, research on carbondioxide and methane emissions attributable to fossil fuel and cement producers).
The Footnote Disclosures would require companies to disclose in their financial statements: All positive and negative impacts of climate-related events, such as severe weather events and other natural conditions, including flooding, drought, wildfires, extreme temperatures, and sea-level rise, exceeding 1 percent of the related line item.
They are water vapor, carbondioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons. The CleanAirAct is an excellent example of this following the publication of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. We are already seeing the depletion of the ice caps and rising sealevels.
It describes fluctuations between the sealevel atmospheric pressure from the areas known as the Azores High and the Icelandic Low although these are not set in stone (8). The greenhouse gases are methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide and carbondioxide (12). The Human Impacts on Climate. Early 20 th Century.
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EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the CleanAirAct. billion tons of carbondioxide emissions by 2050. Heat waves can also cause costly infrastructure damage in cities and exacerbate air pollution.
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The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sealevel rise and damage to their property. Murray Energy Sought Supreme Court Review of Fourth Circuit’s Dismissal of CleanAirAct Jobs Study Case. Foster , No. decision Sept.
A climate change-related argument rejected by the trial court—that sealevel rise projections in the Plan were too high and not based on best available science—did not appear to have been before the appellate court. Delta Stewardship Council Cases , Nos.
EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the CleanAirAct but significantly constrained its ability to do so. Mississippi: Lynn Fitch The sealevel off the coast of Mississippi—the fifth hottest state—is rising more rapidly than in most other coastal areas, largely because the land is sinking.
EPA’s 2024 Power Plant Rules EPA is required to regulate power plant emissions under Section 111 of the CleanAirAct. EPA that carbondioxide and other greenhouse gases fall within the CleanAirAct’s capacious definition of “air pollutant.” Connecticut , 564 U.S. 410, 426 (2011)).
The CleanAirAct provision at issue authorizes small refineries to petition EPA “for an extension of the exemption … for the reason of disproportionate economic hardship.” The ACE Rule replaced the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan.
National Audubon Society alleged that the rule “vastly expands potential sand mining projects in delicate coastal barriers” and further alleged that coastal barriers would become even more important due to climate change and were expected to mitigate $108 billion of sealevel rise and flooding damages over the next 50 years.
The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. The states asserted counts under the Administrative Procedure Act and of ultra vires action. 66,496 (Dec. 15,2 2009).
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