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Latest News from the Center for Biological Diversity https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/ Unprecedented: Trump Guts the Endangered Species Act We've never seen an attack like this on the Endangered Species Act. On Monday the Trump administration finalized sweeping changes to the Act that weaken habitat protections, block climate change from being addressed as a threat to…
From staff reports PARKERSBURG — A local environmental group supports a federal court’s ruling overturning a Trump administration rule that loosened regulations for greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants. The Affordable Clean Energy Rule promulgated last year by the Environmental Protection Agency to replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan on carbon dioxide emissions was flawed, an appeals court for the District of Columbia said this week. The decision sends the rule back to the EPA and reinstates the Clean Power Plan that requires, among other things, reductions of c...
Court Strikes Down Trump Rollback of Climate Regulations for Coal-Fired Power Plants The ruling throws out the Affordable Clean Energy rule and directs the EPA to start over with its required regulation of greenhouse gases from electricity generation. January 20, 2021 The Mount Storm coal fired power station sits on a man-made lake near Mount Storm, West Virginia. Credit: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images Related Share this article On President Donald Trump’s last full day in office a federal appeals court landed a major blow to his administration’s deregulatory c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a last-minute slap at President Donald Trump, a federal appeals...
“Because promulgation of the ACE Rule and its embedded repeal of the Clean Power Plan rested critically on a mistaken reading of the Clean Air Act, we vacate the ACE Rule and remand to the Agency,” said the 185-page decision. EPA spokeswoman Molly Block said the agency would review the decision and “explore all available litigation options,” while New York Attorney General Letitia James applauded the ruling against the so-called dirty power rule. “This ruling affirms what we’ve said all along — the ‘Affordable Clean Energy’ rule did nothing to promote clean energy, and was n...