Laws & Regulations

Despite Cap and Trade, CA Oil and Gas Company Climate Emissions Are Up

"Countries have called California’s cap-and-trade program the answer to climate change. But it is just as vulnerable to lobbying as any other legislation. The result: The state’s biggest oil and gas companies have actually polluted more since it started."

Source: ProPublica, 11/18/2019

"Newsmaker: The 'Go See Ryan' Approach To Lobbying EPA"

"The pork producers were worried. A looming regulation at EPA threatened to cost hog farms time and money. So a lobbyist for the National Pork Producers Council shot an email to EPA's top political staffer, Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson. The reply likely inspired relief."

Source: Greenwire, 11/18/2019

"Dakota Access Pipeline Expansion Sparks Battles In 3 States"

"Two years after it started moving oil out of North Dakota, the Dakota Access oil pipeline is asking for permission to nearly double its capacity — touching off the same environmental and regulatory concerns that led to massive protests and a presidential order blocking the project in 2016."

Source: EnergyWire, 11/15/2019

EPA Rules Reducing Ethylene Oxide Won't Apply To Most Louisiana Plants

"Environmental groups had been waiting nearly three years for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to comply with a federal judge’s orders to update Clean Air Act rules governing emissions of various toxic chemicals."

Source: NOLA.com, 11/15/2019

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