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As EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) launches a review of the agency’s proposal to overhaul its cost-benefit procedures for developing Clean Air Act policies, EPA officials are seeking to downplay concerns that the plan would undermine the value of “co-benefits” of reduced air pollution not directly targeted by a rule.
A bipartisan group of six former EPA administrators is endorsing a series of recommendations from former agency staff and political officials to “reset” the agency so that it can tackle looming major environmental issues such as climate change with a forward-looking plan that includes removing politics from its scientific and economic analyses.
Sustainability analysts at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, are warning that many investors are overlooking the major financial risks from “water stress” that will worsen in the future due to climate change, underscoring water issues as a top climate-related financial risk.
The first state compliance plan under EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) climate rule for existing power plants is expected “soon,” according to the agency’s de facto air chief, who described it as a chance for her office to demonstrate how it will work with states to implement the rule.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit is rejecting a push by the federal government and the oil sector to rehear a panel ruling allowing cities’ climate nuisance cases to proceed in state court, echoing the court’s decision from a week ago that also rejected calls to reconsider its ruling in a separate nuisance suit.
The trucking and construction industries are citing the Trump EPA’s justification for revoking California’s Clean Air Act (CAA) preemption waiver for passenger vehicle greenhouse gas standards in their renewed lawsuit seeking to scrap an Obama-era waiver for the state to set stricter “non-road” diesel engine rules. EMA Urges EPA To Calculate Nationwide, Cumulative Costs Of CARB Rules
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