Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

It is significant because if its huge public health benefits and because it has provided the basis for EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. Pavley Act. This California law imposes limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new vehicles, a breakthrough in U.S. climate law.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

State of Montana, a Montana trial court ruled that the state Constitution’s guarantee of a healthy and clean environment prevails over Montana’s longstanding fossil-fuel-based state energy system. The court’s 103-page decision in Held v. The first legal challenge mounted by Our Children’s Trust was Juliana v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus (CSB) Program was established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help communities reduce pollution from older, higher polluting school buses. Despite past investments, thousands of older polluting school buses remain on the road.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

Modeling from Evolved Energy Research (where our panelist Jeremy Hargreaves is a principal) and Princeton University shows that reaching the IRA’s full potential for greenhouse-gas reductions will require transmission capacity to grow at a rate of about 2.3% per year—double last decade’s growth rate.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. will need to rapidly decarbonize its electricity generating system, replacing fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy systems. greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. That must change if the U.S. To get there, the U.S.

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