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Three-Dozen Law Professors File Amicus Brief in Support of Great Salt Lake Lawsuit
Professors argue public trust doctrine requires the state to intervene on excessive water use
Read MoreCommunities Fight Back Against Industry Attacks on New Air Quality Standards
EPA’s updated soot standards under threat from legal challenges, potentially undermining air quality improvements for years to come
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Read MoreFlorida Lost Its CWA Permitting Power. Now What?
Tania Galloni, Managing Attorney, Florida Office: “The decision is incredibly important because it goes back to the fundamentals, which is that the Endangered Species Act means what it says. The judge was on really solid ground in his ruling. He’s relying on decades of Endangered Species Act case law.”
Read MorePhiladelphia Gas Commission approves $19 million in new fossil fuel infrastructure
Devin McDougall, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The more PGW expands its distribution infrastructure, the more expensive it will become for the city to achieve its commitment to decarbonization by 2050, and the harder it will become for the city to protect its most vulnerable residents from climate impacts that will grow in severity as greenhouse…
Read MoreUnsolved mystery: How much power is crypto using?
Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “Every day is urgent. The incentives for mining are getting so much higher. Between the price of bitcoin and extreme weather, the combination is a danger to our grid and a danger to externalizing costs on other ratepayers and on the environment.”
Read MoreRight To Zero: Building a Zero-emissions Future
We’re creating a zero-emissions reality from coast to coast.
Read MoreProposed settlement prods EPA action on incinerator emissions
Deena Tumeh, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “Most commercial and industrial waste incinerators across the country operate subject to outdated and flawed toxic air pollution standards or none at all. Communities living near these incinerators have suffered the health consequences of exposure to many toxic air pollutants, including lead, which has no safe level of human…
Read MoreDeal forces EPA to act on 33 state haze cleanup plans
Charles McPhedran, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “This moves EPA forward.”
Read MoreMapping Soot and Smog Pollution in the United States
How is the air where you live?
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