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Port Pirie smelter licence renewed with new requirements to tackle emissions

Targets to reduce airborne lead emissions from Nyrstar's smelter in Port Pirie are set in its operating licence, which is renewed for 12 months.

ABC News

The Supreme Court has curtailed EPA's power to regulate carbon pollution – and sent a warning to other regulators

In a highly anticipated but not unexpected 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on June 30, 2022, that the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act.

The Conversation

How California will fight Supreme Court’s limits on EPA climate enforcement

LOS ANGELES — Many public officials and environmental advocates in California were dismayed by Thursday’s Supreme Court decision to limit federal authority on greenhouse gases from power plants, citing a collective blow to the monumental challenge of tackling global warming.

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US Supreme Court limits use of Clean Air Act to curb power plant emissions

In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

France 24

Supreme Court decision may slow transition to cleaner energy

The Supreme Court ruling limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants could have far-reaching consequences for the energy sector — and make it harder for the Biden administration to meet its goal of having the U.S. power grid run on clean energy by…

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Why Court's EPA-climate change ruling matters

The Supreme Court’s new climate change ruling is likely to hinder the Biden administration’s plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade and make the electric grid carbon-free by 2035

The Independent UK

SCOTUS delivers a dagger to the planet

"We don't have another option for large-scale reductions in greenhouse gasses"

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The US supreme court just made yet another devastating decision for humanity

The EPA ruling means it may now be mathematically impossible through available avenues for the US to achieve its greenhouse gas emissions goal

The Guardian - US

‘Condemning everyone alive’: outrage at US supreme court climate ruling

Limiting the Environmental Protection Agency at a time when fossil fuel emissions need to be curbed is ‘devastating’

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court Limits EPA's Ability To Impose Costly Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts

Any future regulations will require clear authorization from Congress.

Reason

Supreme Court ruling is a body blow to climate efforts

The conservative justices may be inviting future challenges.

Axios

US top court limits federal gov’t power to curb plant emissions

Supreme Court rules that the law does not give EPA broad authority to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Al Jazeera

SCOTUS' latest decision is a global blow

"I cannot think of many things more frightening," Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a fiery dissent

Salon

U.S. Supreme Court ruling limits EPA’s authority in regulating greenhouse gases

The high court said a cap on power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions that forces a transition to other fuels may be a “sensible” solution to the climate crisis, but that Congress did not give the Environmental Protection Agency the broad authority to make such requirements. Texas was one of 17…

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Roll Call

Democrats fume, GOP lauds ruling to weaken EPA - Roll Call

Democrats saw their climate action options dwindle Thursday as the Supreme Court diminished the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions.

Mic

The Supreme Court just stripped the EPA of its ability to regulate emissions

The conservative justices somehow concluded Congress did not grant the power to protect air quality, despite Congress literally passing a law called the “Clean Air Act.”

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court rules for coal-producing states, limits EPA’s power to fight climate change

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday for the major coal-producing states and sharply limited the Biden administration’s authority to restrict the carbon pollution that is causing global warming.

Axios

Supreme Court decision will hurt Biden's climate change efforts

The ruling will make it harder to limit carbon emissions from power plants.

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The Guardian - US

US supreme court rules against EPA and hobbles government power to limit harmful emissions

Court sides with Republican states as ruling represents landmark moment in rightwing effort to dismantle ‘regulatory state’

Reason

Supreme Court Rejects Broad EPA Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gases from Power Plants (Updated)

Chief Justice Roberts writes for a six-justice majority in West Virginia v. EPA.

Roll Call

Supreme Court limits EPA power plant carbon emissions authority - Roll Call

The Supreme Court sharply curtailed the EPA’s authority to regulate carbon pollution from electric utilities.

ABC News

EPA gives green light to extend life of Woodside's North West Shelf project to 2070

Western Australia's environmental regulator recommends approval to extend the life of the North West Shelf gas project by almost 50 years, subject to strict conditions, including that it achieves net zero emissions by 2050, to help preserve Indigenous rock art in the area.

ABC News

EPA fines NSW Forestry more than $500,000 in one month for destroying South Coast habitat

New South Wales' Forestry Corporation claims there are no systemic issues with compliance despite coping $500,000 in fines.

AAP

SA smelter has its licence renewed

The South Australian Environment Protection Authority has renewed the operating licence for the Nyrstar smelting operations at Port Pirie.

AAP

EPA nod for Woodside gas plant extension

Western Australia's environmental watchdog has recommended approval for Woodside to continue processing gas at its Karratha plant until 2070.

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