opposition

American Lung Association v. EPA - opposition

Challenge to final rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and replacing it with the Affordable Clean Energy rule.

West Virginia v. EPA

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status report

American Lung Association v. EPA - status report

judgment

American Lung Association v. EPA - judgment

order

D.C. Circuit to Hold Challenges to Trump Administration’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule in Abeyance

motion

American Lung Association v. EPA - motion

American Lung Association v. EPA - order

American Lung Association v. EPA - Other

D.C. Circuit Granted EPA Request to Stay Issuance of Mandate Vacating Repeal of Clean Power Plan

opinion

D.C. Circuit Vacated Trump EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule

letter

American Lung Association v. EPA - letter

D.C. Circuit to Hear Argument on October 8 on Repeal and Replacement of Clean Power Plan

notice

American Lung Association v. EPA - notice

reply

American Lung Association v. EPA - reply

brief

American Lung Association v. EPA - brief

amicus brief

American Lung Association v. EPA - amicus brief

EPA Defended Clean Power Plan Repeal and Replacement

Briefing in Challenges to Regulations for Existing Power Plants to Be Complete by End of July

D.C. Circuit Declined to Expedite or Stay Challenges to ACE Rule

motion to intervene

American Lung Association v. EPA - motion to intervene

statement of issues

American Lung Association v. EPA - statement of issues

memorandum

American Lung Association v. EPA - memorandum

response

American Lung Association v. EPA - response

petition for review

American Lung Association v. EPA

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Air pollution involves harmful contaminants in the air, affecting both indoor and outdoor environments. It can lead to health issues like respiratory diseases and heart problems, and climate impacts such as global warming. Pollutants can damage plants, trees, habitats, and water bodies like rivers and lakes.

Activities of industries that extract natural resources, such as mining, oil, and gas, for commercial use.

Coal is a combustible sedimentary rock formed from carbonised plant matter, rich in carbon and hydrocarbons, and occurring in several main types including hard coal and brown coal.

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.

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.

The release of heat-trapping gases, primarily from human activities such as burning fossil fuels, agriculture and industry.

This sector involves managing waste treatment, sanitation, pollution control and environmental cleanup.

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