US States Mount Legal Challenge to EPA's Climate Rollback
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US States Mount Legal Challenge to EPA's Climate Rollback
#ClimatePolicy #EPA #Litigation #GreenhouseGas #AusNews #AIGenerated

REVERSING HARMFUL CLIMATE ROLLBACK Uniting voices for democratic action and science-led initiatives against climate policy setbacks.
In biology/geology "#marinesnow" refers to the #organicdebris of organisms from higher #waterlevels. The #carboncycle thus transfers #CO2 to the #seabed, thus binding the #greenhousegas.
B. Borer et al. (2026) found that #microbial components of this "snow" induce #calciumcarbonate #dissolution in higher waters, reducing their #settlingvelocity and requiring consideration in future #climatemodels.
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This debate will undoubtedly be shaken up by the #Trump #EPA’s recent killing of the #EndangermentFinding. That scientific finding by the agency was the foundation of federal #GreenhouseGas #regulations. #SCOTUS has previously ruled that the EPA’s role managing those regulations blocked many federal lawsuits over harms from #ClimateChange. Some legal experts say the end of the endangerment finding opens up a new lane for lawsuits against the #FossilFuel industry in federal court.
#States have not been deterred. #Hawaii filed its lawsuit almost immediately after the #DOJ suit. And #Michigan recently filed a federal #antitrust lawsuit against 4 #oil companies & the American Petroleum Institute [#API], the oil industry’s main trade group.
The petition before #SCOTUS in the #Boulder case hinges on the question of whether #federal law “precludes #state-law claims seeking relief for injuries allegedly caused” by #GreenhouseGas #emissions.
Some have been dismissed, while others have been allowed to advance in the courts. None have made it to trial yet.
In #Colorado, as they have elsewhere, the companies tried to move the matter to #FederalCourt, arguing that the complex issue of global #GreenhouseGas #emissions must be addressed under #federal, not #state, #law. A federal judge denied that request in 2019, & the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the decision.
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