Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Conservation : The preservation or restoration of a natural environment for the social, ecological, or even economical benefit. For example, a program of river conservation will increase biodiversity while making the surrounding environment and people who live there healthier.

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APRIL 25, 2024

379] The Clean Air Act doesn’t give an industry immunity from pollution regulation just because the industry is on its last legs economically. Of course, there’s no knowing what the conservative supermajority of the Supreme Court might do on any given day.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Murray Energy Corp. McCarthy , No. 5:14 -cv-39 (N.D.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Image via PickPik On May 23, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed emission limits and guidelines for carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-powered plants. To avoid the same fate as the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, which was struck down by the conservative Supreme Court in West Virginia v.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Energy Policy & Conservation Act (“EPCA”), are specifically tasked with administering two broad rebate programs for which individuals and building owners are eligible. Clean Air Act appropriating $2.25 Third , some funds will be routed through states and state energy offices.

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MARCH 12, 2024

That includes 5 million deaths linked to breathing in the emissions of fossil fuels. The court’s conservative majority went so far as to ignore EPA science conducted during the conservative George W. Bush administration. Thus, the EPA said seasonal streams “should not be examined in isolation.”

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

What is Conservation? We define conservation as a broad approach to preserving what is already there and the due care and attention to protecting it for the future (1). Resource conservation is the active ways in which we seek to limit the use of resources to reduce the strain put on supply. Conservation, Ethics, Philosophy.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels.

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MARCH 23, 2023

The case before the Supreme Court is one of a number of lawsuits brought in state court by state and local governments against fossil fuel producers, primarily oil companies. They generally include a claim that producing fossil fuels has created a public nuisance in the form of climate change.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

USA: Stop the Formosa Plastics Plant Coalition Against Death Alley | 2021 As part of the fossil fuel industry’s push to increase North American plastic production by 35 percent by 2025(1), Formosa Plastics is planning to build a massive petrochemical industrial complex in St.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

EPA , conservatives and industry interests have claimed that just about every new regulation violates the major question doctrine. When the Biden Administration ramped up fuel efficiency requirements through 2026, ideologues such as the Heartland Institute and states like Texas were quick to wheel out this attack.

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MAY 12, 2023

It was the at the core of the previous challenge to President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which the Supreme Court rejected in West Virginia v. Fossil power plants could offset emissions by investing in new natural gas and renewable energy generation sources. The Social Cost of Carbon has served as a punching bag for conservatives.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities.

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Acoel

JANUARY 17, 2025

On December 26, 2024 , New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the Climate Change Superfund Act (the Climate Superfund Act or the Act), which seeks to impose retroactive fees on fossil fuel producers for their disproportionately large contributions to negative climate change impacts.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and the Town of Saugus had appealed the MassDEP’s decision. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126. FEATURED CASE.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

We want to make sure that both workers and the community residents are protected under the guidelines of the Clean Air Act. The pollution amounts that will be associated with the increased operations and increased emissions of pollutants goes into the air we breathe.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2023

Pennsylvania is one of the largest electricity producers in the country, and two-thirds of our power is still generated by fossil fuels,” said Joseph Otis Minott , Executive Director and Chief Counsel of Clean Air Council.

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MARCH 10, 2024

With 2024 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award [PaEN] -- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Holds 30th Anniversary Foods Of The Delaware Highlands Event May 4 [PaEN] -- WVIA: Bernie McGurl, Lackawanna River Conservation Assn. - Schiffman, Esq.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Yet it comes with the imprimatur of a host of conservative organizations and involves many people with ties to Trump. Abolish energy markets or adjust them to favor fossil fuels. Conservatives used to believe in the free market, but Project 2025 seems quite skeptical of the idea of competitive electricity markets. [pp.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

New Jersey Federal Court Remanded Hoboken’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies to State Court. As a threshold matter, the court found that it would not be prudent to wait for federal courts of appeal to issue decisions in fossil fuel companies’ appeals of remand orders in other climate change cases. Missouri v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

laws, including: the Clean Air Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) also known as Superfund; the Clean Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); and the Safe Water Drinking Act.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Our client is Tom Jorling, a former Senate staffer and EPA official who was directly involved in drafting the Act in 1970. (We The Clean Power Plan never went into effect.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Trump is out of office, but he left behind a 6-3 conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Health First Pennsylvania is a dedicated bunch of health professionals, health advocates, parents, faith leaders, all dedicated to trying to make the use and extraction of fossil fuels, especially methane, in Pennsylvania, as safe as possible, and to limit the damage. Now, I come from an evangelical conservative faith perspective.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As illustrated by Trump’s comment, “job-killing regulations” has been a long-time meme among conservatives. Look at it this way: In 1970, when the Clean Air Act was passed, the unemployment rate was twice what it is today. It’s hard to do a rigorous study of how the Clean Air Act as a whole has impacted jobs.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. California Federal Court Ordered Publication of Obama-Era Energy Conservation Standards in Federal Register.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The fossil fuel companies removed the case in March 2021, citing five grounds for removal, including the federal officer removal statute. In a 7-1 decision, the U.S.

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MAY 8, 2020

The Oregon Supreme Court agreed with a petitioner that the Attorney General should modify the text of a ballot title that, if adopted by voters, would amend an Oregon statute to require that greenhouse gas emissions from industry and fossil fuel sources be reduced by 100% below 1990 levels by 2050. Association of Irritated Residents v.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Murray Energy Sought Supreme Court Review of Fourth Circuit’s Dismissal of Clean Air Act Jobs Study Case. Department of Interior , No.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

In order to regulate existing power plants—especially existing coal-fired plants—EPA turned to section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. The Obama Administration’s section 111(d) regulation was known as the Clean Power Plan. This is a doctrine that the Court’s conservatives have been steadily expanding and strengthening.

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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. Moody also jumped in head-first to protect the fossil fuel industry.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Notably, the tone of the industry filing is that the industry is committed to the energy transition and is moving as fast as it can, much different than the stance of conservative opponents. The Clean Air Act provision on judicial review does generally bar lawsuits against a regulation unless they’re filed almost immediately.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

The language is likely meant to refer to EPAs vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations (NHTSA) Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards , both of which to varying extents push automakers to include more EVs in their fleets. A regulatory shift away from EVs will take time.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Washington Supreme Court concluded that the Washington Clean Air Act did not grant the Department of Ecology authority to regulate indirect greenhouse gas emissions of businesses and utilities whose products ultimately generate such emissions. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.

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