A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The National Development and Reform Commission’s Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection said in a statement that energy intensity increased 9.5% It has huge potential for renewables, with vast areas of sparsely populated land and plenty of wind and sun.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 6, 2014

The most prominent of the initiatives in the Climate Action Plan aims to use Section 111 of the Clean Air Act to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and other fossil-fueled power plants. These facilities account for around 40% of all carbon pollution in the United States.

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Law Columbia

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. The groups seek intervention as of right, or, alternatively, permissive intervention.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

Health and environmental damages avoided Using Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates, the United States could avoid more than $18 billion in annual damages from CO 2 , NO x , and SO 2 if all the coal and gas plants scheduled for retirement in 2023 permanently shut down as planned.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The two advocacy groups — the Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources and Bay de Noc Great Lakes Sports Fishermen — filed the request after a draft agreement emphasized Indigenous whitefish and lake trout management. An Illinois congressman has introduced a bill that would help the city build a wind power project in Lake Michigan.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency show that CO2 accounts for the vast majority of heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted by the U.S. Fossil fuel, they argue, will still be needed in the near term as a backstop for the intermittency of solar and wind power and to keep consumer power bills affordable. from 1990–2019.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Beyond the four primary ocean agencies is the Environmental Protection Agency, which regulates ship discharges, ocean trash, and beach/coastal health; and the United States Army Corps of Engineers which regulates certain uses of water, such as dredging and dock and harbor construction and operation.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other governmental entities to allow continued enforcement of environmental laws related to ongoing mining operations. The court determined, moreover, that even if the plaintiffs’ claims could be construed as post-effective date claims (i.e.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Yet 85% of the announced clean energy projects and 68% of the jobs triggered by the IRA, such as those related to electric vehicles, wind power, solar power, and battery storage, have gone to Republican-held congressional districts, according to E2, a nonpartisan group that monitors the clean energy industry.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

But along with those macro-level issues, Trump and his cronies are still hammering away at climate change denial, environmental protection, research funding and public health issues. Trump attacks wind power in state that gets nearly third of energy from wind. 2017.06.20. 2017.06.21. 2017.06.21. 2017.06.22.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals directed the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of chlorpyrifos in instances where it harms workers and children. BLM – Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Nevada Gold Mines LLC’s Goldrush Mine Project, Lander and Eureka Counties, Nevada. 13, 2021.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Hawai‘i Supreme Court Upheld Denial of Request to Re-Open Order Approving Wind Power Purchase Agreement. The Hawai‘i Supreme Court held that the state’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) did not abuse its discretion when it declined to re-open a 2014 order that approved a Purchase Power Agreement for wind energy.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

billion increase for the Environmental Protection Agency over FY 2022. . The Senate confirmed Radhika Fox to be the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant administrator for water. This includes a $2.11 Geological Survey receives an 18% increase to $1.6 billion in fiscal year 2022. Fish and Wildlife Service to $1.9

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