#ClimateDenialism: “The #CleanAirAct reduces #pollution,” he said. “It does not provide a #safehaven for international #corporations to dissemble and #lie about their #products, which is what the #defense’s argument boils down to here.”
#NationalizeFossilFuels #DefenseProductionAct #AbolishTheFilibuster #keepitintheground #GreenNewDealForHealth #ProduceHeatPumps

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/08/fossil-fuel-firms-continue-to-try-to-dismiss-climate-lawsuit-in-hawaii/

https://www.reuters.com/legal/stellantis-unit-official-pleads-guilty-felony-us-diesel-emissions-probe-2023-07-20/

"Senior auto officials at FCA US, including Mr. Palma, conspired to circumvent pollution standards and obtain EPA certifications for hundreds of thousands of SUVs and pickup trucks under false pretenses,”

#Climate #Diesel #CleanAirAct

US EPA announces a settlement with Anheuser-Busch resolving #CleanAirAct violations. The company is to pay $537,000 in penalties and implement a comprehensive safety review of all 11 of its breweries that use anhydrous ammonia. https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/anheuser-busch-llc-required-improve-safety-eleven-breweries

Who needs clean water & air, right?? And if you don't like NY Times, just scroll on by because I do like NY Times and will post articles if I choose. Thank you.
"The Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to police water pollution, ruling that the Clean Water Act does not allow the agency to regulate discharges into some wetlands near bodies of water.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for five justices, held that the law covers only wetlands “with a continuous surface connection” to those waters.

The decision was a second major blow to the E.P.A.’s authority and to the power of administrative agencies generally. Last year, the court limited the E.P.A.’s power to address climate change under the Clean Air Act."
#FuckScotus #CleanWaterAct #CleanAirAct
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/supreme-court-epa-water-pollution.html

https://newrepublic.com/article/172321/supreme-court-case-kills-administrative-state-chevron-deference

Scrapping the #Chevron #doctrine, long a goal of the #conservative legal #movement, would make it far easier for the #courts to block and overturn federal #regulations—anything from #CleanAirAct restrictions to food #safety requirements to #workplace #health mandates.

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3892605-the-biden-administration-must-take-a-tougher-stance-on-soot-pollution/ #Bidenclimateagenda must raise EPA standards for soot pollution. #EnvironmentalIssue 8 micrograms per cubic meter would prevent five times as many deaths – up to 12,000 per year. The same is true for other types of serious, non-fatal health complications like strokes, heart attacks, cases of lung cancer and asthma attacks. #CleanAirAct #AirPollution #ClimateCrisis

Pre-pandemic but still true: #AB617 was designed to address the disproportionate #PollutionBurden and #RegulatoryFailure in #disadvantaged communities by provisions of #AB32 and the #CleanAirAct. It was a response to frustrations with the #ClimatePolicy framework that permitted #EmissionGrowth outside white and wealthy communities. AB617 companion legislation should be emulated elsewhere.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/climate-policy-environmental-justice-and-local-air-pollution/

#Grist: How a Koch-owned chemical plant in Texas gamed the #CleanAirAct

Oxbow Calcining spent years running from clean air rules. New evidence suggests it bent the law until it broke.

BY NAVEENA SADASIVAM AND CLAYTON ALDERN

https://grist.org/project/accountability/koch-oxbow-port-arthur-texas-clean-air-act-pollution/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=weekly

RT @leanhealth@twitter.com

Sehr interessante Frage aus UK: Setzen #Covid #Luftfiltersysteme in zb Landtag einen #Präzedenzfall für Behörden, Schulen und öffentliche Krankenhäuser? wer kann das beantworten? Wir brauchen a #CleanAirAct . https://twitter.com/fearnley_k/status/1616265298000351232

#GreatSmog | The Times headline 26 November 1954:

“#CleanAirAct” urged by Beaver Committee (Report published 25/11/54). Recommendations:

1. Smoke penalties proposed.
2. Smokeless zones.
3. National policy - Looking five years ahead.
4. Power stations - New equipment needed.
5. Plea for research.

#Histodons #History

Follow this thread to re-live the build-up, experience and aftermath of the #GreatSmog 70 years ago (5-9 December 2022). There are many lessons for us to learn - not least how bold action was finally taken in 1956 with the first #CleanAirAct. #AirPollution #Climate #Smog #history #histodons #Histodon #News #science

RT @EnviroDGI@twitter.com

EDGI's @APeoplesEPA@twitter.com & @EEW_Network@twitter.com analyzed #EPA's latest data on enforcement of & industry compliance w/ environmental protection laws like the #CleanAirAct. Overall, the Biden EPA has stepped up enforcement, especially in terms of big civil cases. https://apeoplesepa.org/modules/epa-fines 🧵 1/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EnviroDGI/status/1511749680132026370