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Jul 01 2022
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West Virginia v. EPA
“The Supreme Court on Thursday truncated the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gases… [Chief Justice John] Roberts wrote that the EPA’s effort to regulate greenhouse gases by making industry-wide changes violated the ‘major-questions’ doctrine – the idea that if Congress wants to give an administrative agency the power to make ‘decisions of vast economic and
The Flip SideMar 21 2024
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Alaska creates climate plan to reduce statewide emissions and fund a wide range of sustainable energy projects
Alaska has submitted to the federal government a first-of-its-kind plan to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming. It’s part of the Biden administration’s ambitious effort to tackle climate change. President Biden has committed the U.S. to cut its emissions roughly in half by 2030. One of the administration’s biggest tools is the Inflation Reduction Act — the law
Alaska Public MediaAug 25 2023
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Minnesota state and tribal leaders meet with the EPA to discuss air pollution
Minnesota state and tribal leaders met with members of the Environment Protection Agency In Shakopee on Wednesday to discuss how they aim to use $4 million in pollution reduction grants.
In part due to the Inflation Reduction Act -- as well as aggressive investment from the Biden-Harris Administration -- the EPA is now offering federal Climate Pollution Reduction Grants to states. The
CBS News (Online)Mar 13 2024
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Two Rhode Island companies penalized for violating Clean Air Act
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled with two Providence property management and real estate development firms for violations of the Clean Air Act. Citadel Properties, LLC, and Strive Construction, LLC will pay a penalty of $24,800 to resolve the allegations. The EPA said that the two firms violated the act and the National Emission Standard for
ABC 6Mar 20 2024
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Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday
Now go forth and Democrat. Note: From the Little Rock news desk—Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders found picking her nose with three fingers. And this just in: they weren’t her fingers. No details or footage on Eyewitness News at noon. You’re welcome. Amount of asbestos that would be legal to use in the U.S. under a new EPA rule announced this week: 0 Years the total ban on asbestos has been in
Daily KosSep 07 2023
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Government watchdog: EPA slow to raise alarm in Benton Harbor water crisis
• A government watchdog says EPA officials failed to quickly alert agency leaders about Benton Harbor’s water crisis • The EPA created the so-called “elevation policy” in response to the Flint water crisis Environmental Protection Agency regulators failed to quickly alert agency leadership about the lead-in-water crisis in Benton Harbor, despite a policy that encouraged them to do so, a
Bridgemi.comMar 19 2024
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Here's where former Gov. Mike Leavitt sees Utah's tech future heading
An Adobe employee walks into the cafe next to a spray-painted piece at the Adobe office in Lehi on Thursday, July 13, 2017. Former Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt was, by almost any measure, the state’s first high-tech chief executive and helped usher in a period of explosive innovation well before “Silicon Slopes” became a thing. At a public policy forum hosted by the University of Utah’s Kem C.
Deseret NewsMay 11 2023
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EPA proposes strict emissions cuts for coal plants
The draft regulations for coal are based on the use of carbon capture technology, saying coal plants need to cut their emissions by 90 percent by 2030. The proposal would also regulate some gas plants, saying the best system for these plants would either be capturing 90 percent of their emissions using carbon capture by 2035 or running mostly on hydrogen energy by 2038. However, the rule would
The HillMay 11 2023
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Biden EPA Unveils New Crackdown On Power Plants
The Environmental Protection Agency released new carbon emissions standards for power plants that burn coal and natural gas, a move which some energy experts and lawmakers caution will decrease power reliability and artificially increase electricity costs for households. The new regulations unveiled on Thursday morning would seek to avoid 617 million metric tons of total carbon dioxide
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