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Pollution help for Valley
2014-05-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fresno Bee: There's no shortage of ideas on how to spend California's anticipated "cap-and-trade" billions. But two recent reports lay out a compelling case for where a serious dose of that money, from the state's program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, needs to go. Last week, in an eye-opening map of communities most wracked by pollution, the California Environmental Protection Agency left no doubt that the Central Valley is by far the state's biggest and most vulnerable environmental challenge. ...
Supreme Court rules 6-2 on EPA air pollution reductions across state lines
2014-05-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: This week, President Obamas environmental agenda gained a victory. The Supreme Court revived a 2011 Environmental Protection Agency regulation, known as the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, limiting power-plant emissions blowing across state lines. The ruling will now require 28 states to reduce power-plant emissions, which hurt the air-quality in states located downwind. The new regulation stands to affect approximately 1,000 power plants in the eastern half of the U.S., many of which may...
Ecuador: Patton Boggs' latest case vs Chevron over pollution tossed
2014-05-01 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A New York federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Patton Boggs accusing Chevron Corp of "bad faith" litigation tactics while the Washington law firm tried to enforce a multibillion-dollar pollution judgment. In granting Chevron's motion to dismiss the case, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday agreed with a 2013 recommendation by U.S. Magistrate Judge James Francis that Patton Boggs did not have legal standing to sue. The lawsuit was the most recent of three that Patton Boggs...
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EPA Awards $860,000 To Communities To Reduce Water Pollution, Build Resilience To Climate Change
2014-05-01 07:51:48| pollutiononline News Articles
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced $860,000 to help 14 communities expand their use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and boost resilience to the impacts of climate change.
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Supreme Courts Pollution Ruling a Victory for Obama Administration
2014-04-30 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The US supreme court endorsed the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to deal with air pollution blowing across state lines on Tuesday, in an important victory for the Obama administration as well as downwind states. The court's 6-2 decision unblocks a 2011 rule requiring 28 eastern states to reduce power-plant emissions that carry smog and soot particles across state lines, hurting the air quality in downwind states. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing the court's majority opinion,...
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