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Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Union of Concerned Scientists

However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act), as a result, EPA programs are often implemented narrowly, not holistically. But we cannot stop there.

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D.C. Circuit Vacates EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule

The Energy Law Blog

110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I) of the Clean Air Act (the “good neighbor” provision) which requires that State Implementation Plans contain adequate provisions to prevent a state’s emissions from affecting another state’s air quality. EPA issued CSAPR in August 2011 pursuant to Sec.

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Federal Courts Need to Allow the EPA to Clear the Air

Vermont Law

Every year, about 200,000 Americans die from smog, which is a mix of ozone and fine particulates (PM. The Clean Air Act (CAA) regulates smog, setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and PM. Many cities in the Northeast fail ozone and PM. and ozone NAAQS in any other state.

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The Rise and Decline of Coal Mining Jobs, 1970-2022

Acoel

The federal Clean Air Act (CAA) was enacted in 1970 and amended in 1977 and 1990. billion tons in 2008. EPA regulations under the Clean Air Act for controlling mercury, sulfur dioxide, ozone and other pollutants have contributed to the employment decline. Source: US DOE/EIA. Source: US DOE/EIA.

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EPA Accepts Final DEP Oil/Gas Facility VOC/Methane Emission Limits Regulations For Review, Stops Imposition Of Federal Highway Funding, Other Sanctions

PA Environment Daily

The letter also said, EPA “rescinds the offset sanctions which took effect on June 16, 2022 as a result of EPA’s November 16, 2020 Finding of Failure to Submit (FFS) (85 FR 72963), which found that Pennsylvania failed to submit a SIP revision addressing the 2016 Oil & Gas CTG for the 2008 ozone NAAQS.”

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

President John F Kennedy introduced the Clean Air Act in the US as one of many introduced in developed nations with heavy industry (15). In 2008, there were 400,000 with over 90% of them in captive herds with a gradual increase in wild herds of both plains and woodland bison. Their status today is “Near Threatened”.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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