ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 27, 2024

The Clean Air Act (CAA) prohibits states and local governments from “ adopt[ing] or attempt[ing] to enforce any standard relating to the control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines.” The ACF rule requires the registration of all drayage trucks that operate in California in a CARB Online System.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 8, 2023

2] Much less attention has gone to two bills that are moving toward adoption in California. If adopted, this legislation would have a global impact, as California is the fifth largest economy in the world, and companies around the world sell into California. 12] Here are some details about the proposed California legislation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The court also concluded that the complaint stated claims under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), except to the extent the claims were based on federal, instead of state, RCRA regulations. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the same rulemaking. California v. In October 2017, the D.C. Wheeler , No.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted waiver requests from California on Wednesday that allow the state to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035. California requested the waivers for its Advanced Clean Cars II Rule and Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Bankruptcy Court Said California City and Counties Could Not Sue Coal Company for Climate Change Impacts. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other governmental entities to allow continued enforcement of environmental laws related to ongoing mining operations. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 103.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In addition, the court rejected the contention that the Clean Air Act or foreign affairs doctrine completely preempted the plaintiffs’ claims and also indicated that federal common law would not provide a basis for complete preemption. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County v. Department of Water Resources , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. 4, 2020); California v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Oregon Supreme Court Said Public Trust Doctrine Did Not Impose Obligation to Protect Resources from Climate Change. The court therefore declined to expand the doctrine to cover additional resources, including the atmosphere. California v. California v. Chernaik v. Brown , No. S066564 (Or. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 1, 2025

billion in funding for Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs , which aim to accelerate the deployment of the technology in a select few demonstration projects. After reports indicated the Department of Energy (DOE) was making plans to cancel the DAC Hubs funding , follow up reports indicated the agency was reevaluating that position.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. People of State of California v. California Federal Court Upheld Environmental Law Waivers for Border Wall.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Affordable Clean Energy Rule (ACE Rule) for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants rested on an erroneous interpretation of the Clean Air Act that barred EPA from considering measures beyond those that apply at and to an individual source. Third, the D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County , No. The federal district court for the Northern District of California held a case management conference in City of Oakland v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 15, 2020

DOE and other federal agencies have often called natural gas a “clean” fossil fuel, when in fact it is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of the Interior (DOI) recently finalized rules that weaken controls on methane emissions from oil and natural gas production.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 29, 2025

For example, many pending lawsuits that challenge Biden administration climate actions have been paused while Trump officials fill the agencies and familiarize themselves with the ongoing proceedings. But it is part of the context as federal agencies and the challengers and defenders of Biden-era climate actions determine their next moves.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The court rejected the government’s contention that the “Pause” and related actions—the cancellation and stoppage of offshore lease sales and the cancellation or postponement of “eligible lands” under the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA)—were not final agency actions reviewable under the APA. Chevron Corp. City of Oakland , No. 20-1089 (U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

The Second Circuit then held that the Clean Air Act, in turn, displaced federal common law claims related to domestic emissions. 410 (2011), as establishing “beyond cavil” that the Clean Air Act displaced federal common law nuisance suits to abate domestic transboundary greenhouse gas emissions, and found that Native Village of Kivalina v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District v. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2019 rule setting renewable fuel volumes in the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard Program.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

The sin of a client rarely rubs off on the lawyer, whose work even in helping the guilty, retains an air of respect. Trumps executive order limited access to government resources sending shockwaves throughout the legal profession. California was far from the only one. Everyone is entitled to a good defense and fair trial.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 30, 2025

Under new leadership appointed by the Trump administration, federal agencies have weakened key regulations meant to protect the economy from the financial harms of climate change. This post is part of a Climate Law Blog series reflecting on the first hundred days of President Trumps second term across a variety of climate-related topics.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Before diving into the research agenda, I want to reassure local government officials and staffers that a lot of people will be monitoring the items I list below and advising cities on how to proceed (the Sabin Center’s IRA Tracker already aggregates agency publications on IRA programs).

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