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Why Repeal the Endangerment Finding? - Legal Planet Much will be said about the weakness of the various justifications EPA and the Department of Energy offered yesterday about why greenhouse gases do not endanger public health and welfare under the Cle...

Why repeal the endangerment finding? If the rule is finalized, the legal battle over the repeal will begin and could end up with the overturning of Mass v. EPA. And in the meantime, EPA will have less work to do issuing new GHG rules it doesn’t believe in. legal-planet.org/2025/07/30/w...

Fact-check for non-trolls: wind turbines sited on desert land don't tend to require the clear-cutting of forests... that's common misinformation from the oil & gas industry, which does site its own industrial energy extraction much closer to homes, schools, and other vulnerable sites.

EPA moves to undo key climate rule; California vows to fight back The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step toward backing out of the business of fighting climate change on Tuesday, a move that California leaders vowed to push back on.

Our Distinguished Counsel Mary Nichols echoed that sentiment to @kurtisalexander.bsky.social at @sfchronicle.com, saying “this leaves California much less subject to challenge if we say we want to regulate carbon emissions. They can’t preempt us from doing that.” www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

As Trump's EPA reverses landmark climate policy, California could lead a resistance Experts say the EPA's move to reverse the endangerment finding is dangerous for the nation. But California may have tools to weather the storm.

“If the EPA is saying greenhouse gases aren’t supposed to be regulated under the Clean Air Act, then that means they can be regulated under traditional state authority,” Ann Carlson said. www.latimes.com/environment/...

As Trump's EPA reverses landmark climate policy, California could lead a resistance Experts say the EPA's move to reverse the endangerment finding is dangerous for the nation. But California may have tools to weather the storm.

By ceding federal authority to regulate greenhouse gases, the Trump admin could unintentionally relinquish regulatory powers to California and other progressive states to carry out their own climate agenda, our Ann Carlson told @hayleysmith.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/environment/...

Trump's EPA is attacking its own power to fight climate change The decision could have far-reaching consequences — including for oil companies, which may be exposed to a flood of new litigation.

If EPA succeeds in reversing the endangerment finding, it would “eviscerate the biggest regulatory tool the federal government has” to keep climate change in check, our Ann Carlson told @grist.org. grist.org/politics/epa...

What Happens If EPA Revokes the Endangerment Finding? - Legal Planet We are likely to learn next week if the Trump Administration will eviscerate the most important climate regulations the Biden Administration issued over the last four years. Under Trump’s “Unleashing ...

States like California that have strong climate agendas could newly be freed up to pursue their goals — without EPA permission — including indirect emissions regulations for vehicles. legal-planet.org/2025/02/14/w...

Trump and Zeldin should be careful what they wish for: if the Clean Air Act can’t be used to regulate greenhouse gases, then states may be free to do so on their own without any risk of preemption, as our Ann Carlson has noted.

EPA’s Lee Zeldin announced today how they’ll revoke the Endangerment Finding, the key determination that underpins the government’s power to combat climate change. Sadly, that’s a new and accelerated deregulation. But it could have unintended consequences allowing states to regulate…

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"A very important and neglected issue.” Good insights here from Kate Mackintosh, Executive Director of @law.ucla.edu's @uclapromiseeurope.bsky.social on some lesser noticed elements of the big ICJ climate opinion.

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The Trump administration is gutting EPA's research arm. Can California bridge the gap? Officials with a small but mighty California agency known as the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment said they remain committed to rigorous science.

Laid off at EPA? Come work for California. A state agency called the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment could take on an even bigger role now that EPA has killed off its research arm, LAT’s @hayleysmith.bsky.social reports.

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"China's power system emitted less carbon dioxide (CO2) per unit of electricity production last year than that of the state of Florida and several other major U.S. power systems." www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Both can be true, which real researchers not trolls understand. China's power generation network is actually already substantially cleaner than several major U.S. power systems, because of record-fast deployment of clean energy supplies, while the US backtracks.

As U.S. Retreats on Climate, China and Europe Pledge to Go Green Together

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“A Historic Day”: the World Court’s Big Climate Opinion - Legal Planet UCLA Law’s Anna Spain Bradley on the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change.

My take on yesterday's historic ICJ Advisory Opinion addressing climate change and why it matters for all of us.👇🏽

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“A Historic Day”: the World Court’s Big Climate Opinion - Legal Planet UCLA Law’s Anna Spain Bradley on the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change.

"By laying down the existence of a legal right to a healthy, clean and sustainable environment... this ICJ Advisory Opinion certainly opens up new lanes for holding nations responsible through international, transnational and other litigation." @law.ucla.edu

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“A Historic Day”: the World Court’s Big Climate Opinion - Legal Planet UCLA Law’s Anna Spain Bradley on the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change.

The World Court’s big climate opinion this week offers some "much-needed hope" and breaks new ground on international law, says @law.ucla.edu Professor Anna Spain Bradley. Here are 7 takeaways.
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THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is delivering its Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change live here. webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1c...

What Happens If EPA Revokes the Endangerment Finding? - Legal Planet We are likely to learn next week if the Trump Administration will eviscerate the most important climate regulations the Biden Administration issued over the last four years. Under Trump’s “Unleashing ...

Repealing the endangerment finding is pure Project 2025. But the Project 2025 architects and other climate deniers should perhaps be careful what they wish for, writes our Ann Carlson. Here’s why: legal-planet.org/2025/02/14/w...

EPA will be sued on the substance if it overturns the endangerment finding. And it should lose. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the endangerment finding. But science and law notwithstanding, the Supreme Court is the most anti-environmental court in the modern era.

The Clean Air Act tasks EPA with regulating “pollutants” from numerous sources. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v EPA that the term pollutant includes the greenhouse gases that are warming the globe. It also held that EPA had to make a determination

The science is so strong about the connection between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change that the EPA found way back in 2009 that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. It can’t repeal that science.

EPA a no-show at endangerment finding meetings The agency that advanced the bedrock scientific finding hasn't attended White House meetings focused on its repeal.

It’s perhaps more surprising that EPA (even this EPA) isn’t in the room to discuss endangerment repeal and its own authority. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

It is shocking but not surprising that this is how the Trump admin plans to try to repeal the endangerment finding, the key scientific finding that gives EPA its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and fight climate change.

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Why Did Congress Defund Public Media? - Legal Planet Public media is a public service. The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.

Rural stations and smaller public radio stations are where the loss of federal funding will be felt most when it comes to coverage of weather, disasters and climate change, writes our @evanlgeorge.bsky.social

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How To Beat A Jackass - Legal Planet Sam Rayburn served nearly a half-century as a Congressmember, and still holds the record for the longest tenure as Speaker of the House. So he knew a thing or two about government. One of his aphorism...

"Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.” We still have a robust scholarly and policy agenda, writes our Prof. Jonathan Zasloff, so how can we quickly rebuild effective governmental institutions when the time comes?

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Jeremy's Reddit AMA

After government support and poaching top Western talent, China’s car industry is about to dominate globally. In the US, the affordable car is about to go extinct.

Join @jeremywired.bsky.social for an AMA on Thurs., July 17 at 11 AM ET on the future of cars here: www.reddit.com/r/technology...

EV cars appear on their way no matter what. But will US policymakers save the electric truck or strangle that technology in the crib?

The Trump administration is reviving proposals to expand oil and gas leasing across more than one million acres of public land in California — from the Central Valley to Northern CA. There’s 1 week left to leave public comment. Our @evanlgeorge.bsky.social explains.