Credit to Author: Greg Walters| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:58:48 GMT
The Supreme Court will decide in June whether to gut the EPA’s ability to fight global heating, and you can thank David Koch for that.
Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:57:32 +0000
A sweeping new proposed rule published in the Federal Register by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 6 establishes new nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions budgets that will require fossil fuel–fired power plants in 25 states to participate in an allowance-based ozone season trading program starting in 2023. The proposal, which builds on the agency’s […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: NRDC| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:00:17 +0000
The new rule is long overdue—the last set of trucks standards were developed over two decades ago. Unfortunately, the agency’s proposal is weaker than existing state action and fails to advance the deployment of zero-emission trucks at the pace needed to address the urgent public health crisis caused by tailpipe exhaust.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 14:54:05 +0000
It’s back to the future time in Washington, DC. The EPA and NHTSA have finalized rules governing fuel economy and exhaust emissions that will finally match what the Obama administration proposed back in 2015. In other words, the US has been backsliding on its commitment to a sustainable environment, thanks to enormous pressure brought to […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:01:36 +0000
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it will be discontinuing its online archive in July 2022. This means the public will lose access to tens of thousands of web resources. These resources convey information about critical environmental issues, and past and present agency activities, policies, and priorities. All of these resources are publicly funded […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 04:58:28 +0000
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reinstated California’s authority to set its own motor vehicle pollution standards, the LA Times reported yesterday. You may remember the drama during the Trump administration when the EPA kind of lost its mind and said that California could not require higher fuel economy standards than the nation as a […]
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 21:25:19 +0000
The EPA plans to set new rules to slash truck emissions by 60 percent by 2045.
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 16:44:02 +0000
The Biden administration has proposed strict new limits on pollution from heavy trucks. The last time that tailpipe standards were tightened was over 20 years ago.
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:19:31 +0000
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on a landmark case that could determine whether the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to broadly interpret the Clean Air Act (CAA) to establish carbon emission standards for coal, oil, and gas–fired power plants. Arguments in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (No. 20-1530) presented to […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:17:11 +0000
The USPS fight over next-generation delivery vehicles is far from over. In fact, it may be just beginning.