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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

Circle of Blue

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. And it gives every citizen the authority to bring suit against polluters and government agencies that are doing just that in violation of the public trust. “If Photographs by J.

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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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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

Greenbuilding Law

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.,

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MP committee fails to establish timelines for action on toxic chemicals

Enviromental Defense

While this will be a welcome addition to the annual report, groups say greater accountability is needed to fix the problem of long delays that has plagued regulation of toxic substances in Canada. The government introduced the bill first in the Senate, where it passed last Spring.

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Statement: Bill 23 will Unleash a Firestorm of Environmentally Destructive Rural Sprawl – It Must Be Repealed

Enviromental Defense

Moreover, while the Ontario government has attempted to defend Bill 23’s dismantling of flood and habitat protection, regional planning and green building standards by framing it as a measure to address the province’s housing shortage and lack of affordability, it is likely to have the opposite effect. SCHEDULE 1: CITY OF TORONTO ACT, 2006 .

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Ontario’s Housing Bill is Actually a Trojan Horse for Environmentally Catastrophic Rural Sprawl

Enviromental Defense

SCHEDULE 1: CITY OF TORONTO ACT, 2006 . Bill 23 would remove the requirement for government permission, and allow the sale of conservation lands – including endangered or threatened species habitat, wetlands, and areas of natural and scientific interest. Below is a detailed analysis of Bill 23. Jeopardizing Rental Replacement.