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After Decades of Disinformation, the US Finally Begins Regulating PFAS Chemicals

Union of Concerned Scientists

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” The same suppression and disinformation kept government regulators at bay for decades.

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Minnesota Can Do More to Protect People from Ethylene Oxide Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

The state of Minnesota uses EPA’s ethylene oxide emissions standards, which haven’t been updated since 2006. There are two ways that government agencies can work to reduce toxic air emissions, through regulations or through voluntary pollution reduction measures. And, as I’ll try to show, these two subjects have a lot in common.

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Hottest Summer on Record May Be Ending, but Fight to Protect Workers from Heat Is Far from Over

Union of Concerned Scientists

But other localities, such as Austin, TX , and Miami-Dade County, FL —have been barred by their state governments from enacting local protections. In California, there’s evidence that rates of heat-related injuries in the workplace have declined—but not to zero—since the state’s heat-protection standards went into effect in 2006.

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20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

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Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Groundwater use will total about 400 million to 500 million gallons annually, and local governments and citizen groups have objected. . billion gallons — to build 7,000 homes.

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The Stream, January 26, 2022: U.S. Supreme Court Will Consider Limiting Wetlands Legislation

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In an attempt to alleviate decades worth of environmental harms, the Finnish government has begun efforts to restore parts of the country’s forests and waterways, the Guardian reports. In 2006, the Court defined a wetland as any body of water which has a “significant nexus” to a waterway. 139 CONCEALED DEATHS.

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Supreme Court Curtails Federal Wetlands Protections; Developers Still Must Consider State and Local Wetlands Laws

Law and Environment

715 (2006), which interpreted covered “waters” in the CWA to include “only those relatively permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of water forming geographical features that are described in ordinary parlance as streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes.” (Internal quotation marks and bracket omitted.) United States , 547 U.S.

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Maryland is the First State to Regulate Carbon

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The statute explicitly requires the State to reduce statewide GHG emissions by 60% from 2006 levels by 2031, a near term target unmatched by any other state.”. Many regulations will have to be promulgated to make all of this happen. apparently the State is leaning toward site EUI. That Alternative Compliance Fee (i.e.,