They are partially based on what even some of the modelers acknowledge are faulty data, particularly on methane.
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To Save the Climate, Hire More Civil Servants
Either we pay for more people to fix the climate crisis, or we pay for more cleanup after routine natural disasters.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A Methane Fee Won’t Work If It Doesn’t Count All the Methane
Unless it bulks up its rules, the EPA’s historic undercounting of methane emissions will allow the minority of companies that fall under the new regulation to avoid the charge without much hassle.
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Supreme Court Wounded, but Didn’t Kill, Biden Climate Powers
The administration still has plenty of tools to limit climate pollution that the ruling in West Virginia v. EPA did not touch.
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Supreme Court Stages a Coup Against Government Regulation
And they endanger the planet in the process.
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Katie Porter Versus … Lanny Davis?
The veteran Clinton lawyer is representing a developer accused of bribing Trump’s Deputy Secretary of the Interior.
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Meet the Organizations Fighting for Zero-Emissions Freight
A coalition of community-based groups has come together to demand reform of a sector that has had a disproportionately negative impact on communities of color.
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Where the Government’s Environmental Lawyers Stand
The Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department could help protect our planet’s future.
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‘Benton Harbor Is Not Flint’—It’s Worse
Another poor, majority-Black city in Michigan is facing a lead contamination crisis brought on by gross apathy and neglect, but without sustained national attention.
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Supreme Court Conservatives May Slash EPA’s Authority on Climate
A decision limiting the federal agency’s power to combat the climate crisis could potentially have wider, catastrophic effects across a broader range of health and safety issues.