Challenge to Biden administration fuel economy standards for model years 2024-2026.

Natural Resources Defense Council v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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Natural Resources Defense Council v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - response

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Natural Resources Defense Council v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - letter

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Oral Argument Scheduled for September in Challenges to Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards

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Natural Resources Defense Council v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - reply

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Natural Resources Defense Council v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - brief

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Natural Resources Defense Council v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - amicus brief

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Natural Resources Defense Council v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - motion to intervene

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Natural Resources Defense Council v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - petition for review

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American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - motion to intervene

American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - petition for review

American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Texas v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - motion to intervene

Texas v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - petition for review

Texas v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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A subsidy is a direct or indirect payment to individuals or businesses, typically provided as a government cash payment or a specific tax reduction.

Financial support to help individuals manage the effects of unexpected events, securing their livelihoods and increasing the resilience of people and businesses to the changing climate. It’s especially vital in developing regions where everyday risks, climate-related weather extremes, or crop failures can push people into poverty. Without insurance, people may have to resort to selling assets or cutting consumption to cope with losses.

Codes and standards are regulatory instruments that specify minimum standards to protect health and safety. This ranges from performance standards, which prescribe outcomes while allowing flexibility to achieve compliance, to the more prescriptive approach of technology-specific standards.

Either money or something of monetary value is transferred between two or more organisations, people or countries.

A target to reduce the prevalence of a greenhouse gas over a specific time frame

An aim to achieve a quantifiable outcome within a given time-frame, set by an institution such as a national government.

A long-lived, colourless gas, chiefly emitted from fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and cement production.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Energy derived from biological compounds that are renewable due to their short life cycle within the carbon dioxide cycle.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Oil is a combustible liquid fossil fuel composed mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring as crude oil and refined into petroleum products such as petrol, diesel and kerosene.

Fossil gas, commonly known as natural gas, is a fossil fuel consisting chiefly of methane with smaller amounts of other hydrocarbons and trace gases, found in underground deposits.

This sector involves the wholesale and retail selling of goods.

This sector involves activities to move goods and people, alongside the storage of products.

Activities that involve the cultivation of crops and raising of livestock for food, fibre, and other products essential for human life and industry.

The activities of industries involved in the production, distribution, and sale of energy, including electricity, gas, and renewables.

Activities of government agencies and institutions that provide public services, enforce laws and manage public resources.

Any substance with chemical properties that can cause physical harm to people or damage the environment, including ammonia, carbon monoxide, phosphine, chlorine, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, pesticides, dioxins, microplastics, benzene, asbestos, aflatoxins, fluoride, methanol, and toxins from marine sources.

Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

Risk is the potential for adverse consequences resulting from the dynamic interplay between (climate-related) hazards, exposure, and vulnerability of affected human or ecological systems.

Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, in order to moderate harm, increase resilience or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual climate change and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate change and its effects.

The management and allocation of funds, assets and investments to meet various objectives

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American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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