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carbon pollution
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A Week of Briefs, in Brief
Public Health and Environmental Groups Dismantle Clean Power Plan Challenges Before the D.C. Circuit Court This week EPA, and environmental and public health organizations, as well as supportive states, power companies, and trade associations, submitted their responses to various hyperbolic challenges to the Clean Power Plan before the D.C. Circuit…
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EPA’s Proposed Rule for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Existing Power Plants is a Good Opening Bid
Nearly a year ago, the Obama Administration released the President’s Climate Action Plan reaffirming the U.S. commitment to reducing the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, and 80 percent by 2050. This week, EPA proposed the second pillar in that plan, a carbon pollution…
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The Time is Now
Happy Holiday Season! As CATF advocates look forward to the coming year, we are hard pressed to think of better near term opportunities for climate pollution control than those presented by three EPA regulatory processes – in each case, the Agency has until now put down only one foot. We…