Courthouse News
The Clean Air Act does not require the Environmental Protection Agency to revise its air quality protection rules just because national standards for ozone have changed, a federal judge ruled.
WildEarth Guardians, Sierra Club, and Midwest Environmental Defense filed a series of actions under the Clean Air Act's (CAA) citizen suit provision to force Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA, to review and modify the way it regulates air pollution from ozone. Read More ...
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Congressional Research Service
The Congressional Research Service estimates that since 2008 the federal government has spent nearly $70 billion on “climate change activities.
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Representative Cynthia Lummis
Over the last several weeks, more data has come out indicating problems with how the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) is working. Studies from both the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Notre Dame Law School show funds are flowing to environmental groups contrary to Congressional intent. Read More ...
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Huffington Post
Citing global warming, environmental groups are asking a federal judge to call a halt in Wyoming to one of the largest coal-mining plans ever approved by the U.S. government. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the Sierra Club and WildEarth Guardians said the federal Bureau of Land Management failed to consider the impact of greenhouse gases that will be emitted when coal from four government mineral leases in Wyoming is burned in power plants across the nation and in Asia.
The leases contain roughly 2 billion tons of coal in the Wyoming portion of the Powder River Basin, a geologic region in northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana that produces about 40 percent of the country's coal. Read More ...
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