Make America’s Environment Filthy Again
Legal Planet
MARCH 12, 2025
And buried within the list of 31 is a huge bombshell: the “reconsideration” of EPA’s finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare under the Clean Air Act.
50 Years Ago: Environmental Law in 1973
Legal Planet
JANUARY 30, 2023
In the previous three years, Congress had passed NEPA, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. Continuing the legislative wave, 1973 saw the passage of the Endangered Species Act (ESA. Like today, 1973 was a time of political turmoil. The first EPA Administrator took office in 1971.
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What Next for the Climate Tort Cases?
Legal Planet
AUGUST 7, 2023
That brings us to the second argument that companies could make, that any deception claims relate to speech intended to influence the political process and that political speech is exempt from liability even if it is false. The other argument is that the Clean Air Act itself eliminates state lawsuits for interstate pollution.
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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
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. Politically, what has happened to coal jobs may be more salient. And what sparked the ensuing plunge in coal use starting with Obama’s presidency?
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The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision Is a Blow to Stopping Climate Change
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 3, 2022
The petitioners who brought this case include state-level political officials and coal companies who are single-mindedly determined to block climate action and perpetuate fossil fuel dependence to serve their narrow political or business interests. With this decision, the Court has instead hamstrung that authority.
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Environmentalism and the Supreme Court
Legal Planet
AUGUST 26, 2021
The case involved the lynchpin of the Clean Air Act, EPA’s power to set national air quality standards. The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. Among other things, the Clean Air Act gives federal protection to wetlands.
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Governor Newsom Should Veto These Four Bills
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
If signed, the state would have to withdraw Clean Air Act waiver requests already in process with the Environmental Protection Agency. These four bills would introduce unnecessary delays, conditions, and exceptions into the ACF and CHC standards, weakening California’s ability to combat the diesel pollution crisis.
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EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Are Critical—and Complex. Here’s What to Know, and What to Watch.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation.
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Why UCS Supporters Are Pressing EPA to Let California Enforce Its Truck Pollution Rules
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 1, 2022
California has a longstanding leadership role on transportation pollution, and the Clean Air Act grants the state the right to set strong vehicle emissions standards. While the waiver addresses California’s ability to enforce its rules, the Clean Air Act also allows other states the ability to adopt California’s policies.
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Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.3.24
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
26 to Nov. 1 - No Attempt To Contain, Cleanup Injection Well Spill; Gas Storage Area Well Release; More Abandoned Conventional Wells [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Fracking Turns 20 In Pennsylvania, Towns Consider New Regulations For Distance Between Homes And Well Pads [Cecil Twp., 26 to Nov.
Supreme Court Sidelines Science, Threatens Public Health: These Rules-in-Progress Show What’s at Stake
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. It was not a catchy slogan to write on a cardboard sign, but the message is important to all of our lives.
Livestock Operations Are Responsible for Over Half of California’s Methane Emissions—Why Won’t CARB Regulate Them?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 26, 2023
What has not been abundant is the political will to enact these reforms, and CARB’s reluctance to initiate a rulemaking reflects this trend. It won’t be easy to find a regulatory pathway that properly abates methane emissions, improves community health outcomes, and is politically palatable. To CARB, installing digesters is a win-win.
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Happy 50th Anniversary, Federal Clean Water Act
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The political movement culminating in the passage of the Clean Water Act was triggered by several environmental disasters in the late 1960’s that shocked Americans and motivated them to take action to clean up the nation’s heavily-polluted waterways. ” That obviously did not, and will not, happen.
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DEP Determines Rulemaking Petition Submitted By Environmental, Health Groups To Adopt More Protective Setbacks From Shale Gas Wells Is An Action The Environmental Quality Board Has Statutory Authority To Take
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
“DEP’s job is to protect people and the environment from pollution, and increasing minimum setback distances from fracking sites should be an obvious next step to protect everyone in the Commonwealth regardless of one’s politics.” There is no evidence that shale gas development can be done without harm to human health,” said Alison L.
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The Origins of Climate Awareness in the Legal Academy
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Given the uncertainties, however, she said that the issue “should not be pushed into high-level political debates that would cause countries to adopt premature positions based on inconclusive premises and embedded in national political rhetoric.”. Third, there was so much else going on in environmental law.
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The Good Neighbor Provision on Steroids: Third Circuit Ruling Resurrects Clean Air Act Section 126(b)
The Energy Law
JULY 23, 2013
Specifically, Section 126(b) provides that: Any State or political subdivision may petition the Administrator for a finding that any major source or group of stationary sources emits or would emit any air pollutant in violation of the prohibition of [the “good neighbor” provision] or this section. See GenOn REMA, LLC v. at 29 (3d Cir.
When Democrats and Republicans united to repair the Earth
Environment, Law, and History
MAY 6, 2022
Nevertheless, despite Nixon’s waning interest in environmental issues, Republican members of Congress continued to find common ground with Democratic colleagues even as the toxic political bitterness of the Watergate scandal embroiled the nation. The review goes on to discuss the book's treatment of the post-Nixon years, as well.
The Impacts of Explicitly Racist Land Use Practices Persist in California Communities. Is It Time for State Intervention?
Legal Planet
APRIL 19, 2023
As a corollary, local decision-makers are far less politically accountable to residents living outside of their jurisdiction, allowing these decision-makers to impose negative externalities on neighboring communities. Read the full report from Leadership Counsel and the Clinic here.
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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial
Legal Planet
JULY 12, 2023
What we heard in plaintiffs’ case was not justiciable controversy, but rather a weeklong hearing of political grievances that properly belongs to the legislature, not a court of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell. The admission says a lot about political will. I’m kidding, but only slightly.)
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MGKF Law
JUNE 30, 2022
The major questions doctrine requires that a federal agency have “clear congressional authorization” when acting on issues of great “economic and political significance.” citing Utility Air Regulatory Group v. ” Id. EPA , 573 U.
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PA Environment Daily
JULY 3, 2023
-- Committee Schedule Senate adjourned until September 18 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- July 3 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- 95 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA [PaEN] -- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults [PaEN] -- 7.3.23 - PA Environment (..)
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Introducing Your Legal Planet Weekly
Legal Planet
APRIL 10, 2025
And about the EPA having that email address set up for copy and paste exemptions to the Clean Air Act, which my colleague Mary D. Maryland is one of the states that aimed to spur the adoption of electric vehicles by adopting California’s clean-car and clean-truck regulations.
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PA Environment Daily
MARCH 8, 2024
Erie Area Is ‘Abnormally Dry’ Due To Lack Of Snow, Rain -- March 9 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available -- Spotlight PA: What To Know About Shapiro’s Proposed $10.3
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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.28.25
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 28, 2025
Shapiro: What Labor, Industry, Environmental, Consumer Leaders Are Saying About The Lightning Energy Plan To Secure Pennsylvanias Energy Future -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission: Low Stream Flows Triggering Restrictions On 19 Shale Gas Water Withdrawals, 17 More Approaching Restrictions [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Releases Natural (..)
State Air Regulations Can Go Above and Beyond National Standards
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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Unraveling LA’s Hydrogen Combustion Experiment
Legal Planet
MARCH 6, 2023
But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. All this is not to say there is no place for hydrogen in a clean energy future.
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Can Fossil Fuel Companies Be Held Liable for Climate Change?
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders. EPA , the decision in which the Supreme Court rejected EPA’s arguments for not treating greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. These points are largely undisputed.
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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 11.18.22
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Framework Convention On Climate Change (COP27) -- Inquirer Guest Essay: Here’s What Pennsylvania Can Learn From A World Climate Meeting -- Penn State: Can Low-Grade Geothermal Energy Be Recovered From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells? -- U.S.
Dismissal of New York City’s Climate Change Suit Affirmed by Second Circuit On Preemption Grounds
MGKF Law
APRIL 29, 2021
Earlier this month, the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court for the Southern District of New York’s ruling that state common law claims against oil companies for costs resulting from climate change were either preempted by the Clean Air Act, or, in the case of foreign emissions, represented a non-justiciable political question.
Climate in the American legal academy
Environment, Law, and History
JANUARY 12, 2022
Given the uncertainties, however, she said that the issue “should not be pushed into high-level political debates that would cause countries to adopt premature positions based on inconclusive premises and embedded in national political rhetoric.” Third, there was so much else going on in environmental law.
Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds
Corp Watch
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
References: In Mexico, $2 per hour workers make $40,000 SUVs A Toyota Factory Revs Up in Tijuana Toyota Warns US Workers: Build Camry for Less, or Else Toyota workers urged to reject union Toyota slapped with $180 million fine for violating Clean Air Act U.S. China fines Toyota 87.6 million yuan ($12.5
Disasters and Environmental Laws – Have We Learned Our Lesson?
Acoel
AUGUST 14, 2023
Take for instance: the burning Cuyahoga River that led to the Clean Water Act; the disastrous air pollution incident in Donora, PA that led to the passage of the Clean Air Act; the discovery of Love Canal that lead to the passage of Superfund; and most tragically, the chemical gas release in Bhopal, India that lead to the passage of EPCRA.
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12 Legal Tools to Push Climate Preparedness
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 5, 2019
Permit conditions – Several statutes require permit holders to have and implement plans to prepare for extreme events – e.g., Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; Oil Pollution Act; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
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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Update: Upcoming Hearings on Motions to Dismiss Climate Change Nuisance Cases in California and New York
Law Columbia
MAY 23, 2018
These arguments – about displacement of federal law, preemption of state law, the foreign affairs power, political question, standing, the applicability of common law to defendants’ activities, causation, and so on – will recur in the other lawsuits, when they get to the motion to dismiss phase.
EQB Overwhelmingly Approves Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; Republicans Vote Against
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Because these regulations are required under the Clean Air Act, failure to submit them in final form to U.S. EPA by December 16, 2022, will result in EPA imposing non-discretionary sanctions, and the federal government would thus withhold nearly $1 billion of transportation funding ? Williams, Esq.,
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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
As water and water runoff does not respect political boundaries, international laws on conservation and use are common and applied, especially where there is shared use and responsibility or competing claims to it. The Clean Air Act is an excellent example of this following the publication of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring.
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PennFuture President & CEO Jacquelyn Bonomo Announces Retirement; Matthew Stepp Named Interim President
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Pennsylvania, like much of the world, is in the midst of historic social, political, and economic changes that are putting enormous stresses on our environmental resources and laws. Leading such a strong advocacy organization during this period of upheaval as Interim President & CEO is humbling and an honor.
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State “Climate Superfund” Bills: What You Need to Know
Law Columbia
MARCH 14, 2024
Under the CERCLA approach adopted by the Climate Superfund bills, large fossil fuel producers and refiners are held strictly liable for costs arising from their products’ GHG emissions, regardless of whether they are deemed to have acted improperly. No federal statutes explicitly preempt state Climate Superfund laws, and different U.S.
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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry
Corp Watch
JUNE 7, 2023
USA: Coke, EPA to reach settlement in Clean Air Act ammonia violation charges Shane O'Halloran | Food Engineering Mag | March 19, 2014 EPA alleged 27 violations at a Minute Maid juice processing facility in Michigan. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.
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UK: Coca-Cola Enterprises boss admits taking £1.5m in bribes
Corp Watch
JUNE 7, 2023
USA: Coke, EPA to reach settlement in Clean Air Act ammonia violation charges Shane O'Halloran | Food Engineering Mag | March 19, 2014 EPA alleged 27 violations at a Minute Maid juice processing facility in Michigan. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.
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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil
Corp Watch
MARCH 8, 2024
refinery to settle federal charges that it violated the Clean Air Act, the US Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency said May 1. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9
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Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa
Corp Watch
JANUARY 17, 2024
refinery to settle federal charges that it violated the Clean Air Act, the US Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency said May 1. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9
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Court orders 42 Ugandan families evicted to make way for oil project
Corp Watch
JANUARY 2, 2024
refinery to settle federal charges that it violated the Clean Air Act, the US Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency said May 1. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9
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