Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. The Human Impacts on Climate.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

The 4 big ones are the 1972 Clean Water Act , the 1970 Clean Air Act , the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act , and 2 hazardous waste laws having the acronyms CERCLA and RCRA, which I will explain later. Clean Water Act. The stated goal of the Clean Water Act is “zero discharge.”

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Every year, about 200,000 Americans die from smog, which is a mix of ozone and fine particulates (PM. The Clean Air Act (CAA) regulates smog, setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and PM. Many cities in the Northeast fail ozone and PM. and ozone NAAQS in any other state.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. And so all of these have very significant impacts on climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

The plan cuts power plant and industrial ozone pollution that wafts from central parts of the nation into eastern states. According to the American Lung Association, nearly 120 million people in the nation—one of every three—lives with unhealthy levels of particle and ozone pollution. A 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling (Chevron v.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

image: Climate Change and Developing Countries – Public Health Notes. Cost benefit analysis for Clean Air Act regulations has a tortuous history, which just got more twisted. The Supreme Court clouded Clean Air Act cost benefit analysis in its decision in Michigan v.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

“The United States is once again a global leader in confronting the climate crisis, and we must lead by example when it comes to tackling methane pollution – one of the biggest drivers of climate change. can take in the short term to slow the rate of climate change.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

President John F Kennedy introduced the Clean Air Act in the US as one of many introduced in developed nations with heavy industry (15). Rachel Carson's Silent Spring highlighted many of the ecological problems that industrial and commercial activity was doing to our world. Consider an energy policy degree.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Understanding the Endangerment Finding Two requirements must be met before a substance can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. First, it has to qualify as an air pollutant. The Clean Air Act defines an air pollutant to be any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any precursor chemicals.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Notably, in granting the Advanced Clean Car waiver , EPA relied heavily on the fact that the program cuts traditional air pollutants, including those that cause ozone pollution, from vehicles. Californias power under the federal Clean Air Act to cut pollutants from cars and trucks is unquestionable and longstanding.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 149. With respect to climate change, the D.C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Law and Environment

JUNE 14, 2022

The Clean Air Act generally prohibits a state from adopting its own motor vehicle emission standards. The California waiver authority does not exist to allow California to address national and global issues such as climate change.”. Unsurprisingly, California and other states sued to stop the revocation.

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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2022

The Clean Power Plan has no practical significance today: the deadlines in the Plan have long since passed, and the U.S. The Trump Administration said that the second two prongs, involving shifts away from coal and toward renewables, went beyond EPA’s powers under the Clean Air Act. Overruling Massachusetts v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. Conference of Mayors (USCOM).

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis). and our citizens.”.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Supreme Court to hear Clean Water Act case. UN seeks input about possible topics for the Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue. Research Policy: The House leadership unveiled the America COMPETES Act ( H.R. This body will review the EPA’s scientific review of current ozone pollution standards. International.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. degrees Celsius. Biden EPA move to repeal Trump WOTUS rule.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 133. By Margaret Barry and Hillary Aidun.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2022

The Biden Administration is slowly grinding away at an important regulatory task: reconsidering the air quality standards for particulates and ozone. Quick legal background: The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set national ambient air quality standards or NAAQS (pronounced “knacks”). is over 600 pages long.

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

Sean Casten (D-IL) ‘s Climate Risk Disclosure Act ( H.R. This bill requires publicly listed companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and how climate change will impact their businesses to the Securities and Exchange Commission. These indicators inform the National Climate Assessment. International. .

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ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Potential climate actions identified in the letter include developing a national climate adaptation strategy and adapting new greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. 22 The Water Resources Development Act: Provisions for Invasive Species Prevention and Management Thursday, Feb.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

This research program would help determine if solar geoengineering should be considered further as a part of a “robust portfolio” of options to adapt and mitigate the impacts of climate change. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC): Request for Nominations. Upcoming Events. Nominations are due May 3, 2021.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

The bill includes $18 billion for climate change mitigation and adaptation and $500 million to mitigate climate impacts on vulnerable communities, including communities of color and tribes. Climate Change Forces Brutal Choices at National Parks – The New York Times. What to Save?

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