amicus brief

Clean Air Council v. Pruitt - amicus brief

Challenge to EPA's administrative stay of portions of the 2016 new source performance standards for sources in the oil and gas sector.

Clean Air Council v. Pruitt

order

D.C. Circuit Denied Intervenors’ Requests for Rehearing of Decision Vacating Stay of Methane Rule for Oil and Gas Facilities

response

Clean Air Council v. Pruitt - response

D.C. Circuit Said Administrative Stay of EPA Methane Standards for Oil and Gas Facilities Must Be Vacated Immediately

petition for rehearing

Clean Air Council v. Pruitt - petition for rehearing

Clean Air Council v. Pruitt - order

motion

Clean Air Council v. Pruitt - motion

opinion

D.C. Circuit Vacated EPA’s Administrative Stay of Methane Standards for Oil and Gas Facilities

motion to intervene

Clean Air Council v. Pruitt - motion to intervene

opposition

Clean Air Council v. Pruitt - opposition

notice

Clean Air Council v. Pruitt - notice

reply

Clean Air Council v. Pruitt - reply

petition for review

Clean Air Council v. Pruitt - petition for review

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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.

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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

This sector creates and distributes information and entertainment through television, radio, print, and digital platforms.

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.

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

A potent, short-lived greehouse gas, largely released from livestock, fossil fuel extraction and waste management.

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

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.

Clean Air Council v. Pruitt - amicus brief

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