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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. You can contact your legislator to support this important new law. And, as I’ll try to show, these two subjects have a lot in common. What is the situation in Minnesota? These standards no longer adequately protect the public.

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In Celebration Of The Many Contributions Of John Dawes To Protecting And Restoring PA’s Environment, Foundations Create The R. John Dawes Clean Water Fund

PA Environment Daily

. -- Worked with the Environmental Integrity Project to clean up Brunner Island in the Susquehanna River. -- Advocated for many key regulatory and legislative initiatives to protect Pennsylvania’s waterways, including the reauthorization of the Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006.

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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule: Interrogating Preemption and Coherence with Other Domestic Regimes

Law Columbia

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Preemption of a state law arises under the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution. See, e.g. , Rice v.

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Starting with a Messy Slate: The Role of Environmental Law in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake

Vermont Law

Deforestation, air and water pollution, and lack of sanitation systems have led to public health problems and resource scarcity. However, by internalizing the role of environmental law and grassroots efforts, there is a hope of success for Haiti’s continued reconstruction and long-term development. _. By Marie Hollister.

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Second District Affirms Judgment Rejecting CEQA And Other Challenges To CARB’s “Technology-Forcing” Emissions-Control Regulation For At-Berth Tanker And Other Ships

CEQA Developments

c); CEQA Guidelines, 15250, 15251), and under special provisions of CEQA that apply specifically to regulations CARB promulgates to set performance standards and to require the installation of pollution control equipment[.] Citing to the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006; and to Pub. Citation omitted.)

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Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule and Its Impact on Ohio

Ohio Environmental Law

The Clean Water Act prohibits the discharge of pollutants into “navigable waters” without a permit authorizing the discharge. Following the 2006 decision by the U.S. Does Ohio law protect wetlands and waters that are not federally protected? Ohio law also protects categories of waters that are not protected under the NWPR.

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In Memoriam: Former Sen. Mary Jo White, Republican Chair Of The Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee

PA Environment Daily

She also served on the Wild Resource Conservation Fund, the Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee, the Environmental Quality Board, and the PA Commission on Sentencing. She held this position through the 2005-2006 Legislative Session. For the 2001-2002 Legislative Session, Sen.

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