Search for: "Lissa Lynch" Results 1 - 17 of 17
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Lissa Lynch
NRDC submitted extensive public comments yesterday strongly opposing the Trump EPA’s irresponsible proposal to cancel the groundbreaking Clean Power Plan and replace it with a deeply flawed dirty power p [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Lissa Lynch
The Environmental Protection Agency last week made significant concessions in a lawsuit by NRDC and our partners challenging EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s illegal suspension of rules curbing harmful emissions from landfills. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Lissa Lynch
Here’s something you don’t see every day: an entire industry and the environmental community aligned in support of an international agreement to curb dangerous climate pollutants – chemicals called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in air conditioning, refrigeration, insulation, and propellant appli [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Lissa Lynch
NRDC and our allies filed a brief today urging the Su [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Lissa Lynch
As the Trump EPA prepares to unveil its proposed Clean Power Plan replacement, E&E News obtained the agency’s talking points, giving us a window into how Acting EPA Administrator Wheeler plans to spin this Dirty Power S [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Lissa Lynch
EPA recently issued a proposal to further delay a rule limiting harmful emissions from landfills – after the agency has already unlawfully suspended and postponed the rule for a year and a half. [read post]
11 May 2023, 5:46 am by Lissa Lynch
The agency’s proposal to limit carbon pollution from coal- and gas-fired power plants—which until now has gone nearly unchecked—is a vital step toward combating climate change. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Lissa Lynch
The Clean Power Plan replacement proposed today by Acting EPA Administrator Wheeler demonstrates the Trump EPA’s unflagging commitment to propping up polluters. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Lissa Lynch
Lately just about every other week there’s both a new scientific report warning about the urgent dangers of climate change and a new proposal from the Trump administration rolling back climate protections. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Lissa Lynch
The Trump EPA has finally issued its irresponsible rulemaking repealing the Clean Power Plan and replacing it with a do-nothing rule that will produce only minor reductions in power plant carbon pollution, if any at all. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Lissa Lynch
NRDC and Evergreen Action released a report today outlining a roadmap to reduce power sector emissions 80 percent from 2005 levels by 2030—an essential milestone on the way to reach [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Lissa Lynch
NRDC filed a lawsuit today against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt for unlawfully revoking the agency’s limits on uses of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), the super-potent climate-changing pollutants used in refrigeration, [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Lissa Lynch
EPA recently issued a proposal to significantly weaken carbon pollution standards for new coal-fired power plants. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Lissa Lynch
NRDC urged EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt this week to reverse course on his reckless plans to dismantle the Clean Power Plan and replace it with weak limits on power plant carbon pollution. [read post]
11 May 2023, 6:07 am by Evan George
  Meanwhile, the power sector kept evolving, as Lissa Lynch with the NRDC’s Climate & Clean Energy Program has pointed out, “We surpassed the Clean Power Plan’s 2030 reduction targets in 2019 without the Clean Power Plan having ever gone into effect. [read post]