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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. 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.

2016 246
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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil

Circle of Blue

Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. But the fact that the facility exists, Corrigan said, is an indictment of the state’s pollution-control measures. “It’s Tyler Larson was diagnosed in 2010 with neurofibroma sarcoma, which resulted in tumors on nerve endings.

2011 340
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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.

2006 91
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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule: Interrogating Preemption and Coherence with Other Domestic Regimes

Law Columbia

the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Solutions Act). The SEC’s regime is an investor protection program, and nowhere in the SEC’s rule does a stated goal of pollution control or GHG emission reduction appear. As discussed, the legal basis for California’s disclosure requirements differs from the SEC.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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

Vermont Law

While pre-earthquake regulations, such as land and water use and pollution controls were still not effective, Haiti still had some legal framework through the Ministry of the Environment. Furthermore, in 2006 the provisional president, Boniface Alexandre, issued a Decree of Environmental Management.

2010 40
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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. Resources Code, 21080.5(c);