Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
It then tread water for a few years and began a steep decline in 2008, going from half of U.S. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. Since around 2008, natural gas use has been the mirror image of coal use. electricity to about one-fifth today.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
A couple years ago , I detailed how an industry designed to increase and sell devices tampering with pollution controls was trying to use the extremely small slice of its business targeted at racing as a Trojan horse to hinder EPA enforcement and let loose a bevy of tampering devices on the American public.
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Circle of Blue
MAY 2, 2023
Davenport, Iowa, is used to such floods — waters reached similar levels in 2019, 2014, and 2008. In releasing this wastewater the facility violated a national permit, though according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the majority of the release was “clear storm water” and the threat to public health is “slim.”
Smith Enviorment
DECEMBER 12, 2019
The report, The Thin Green Line, looks at staffing levels and funding for environmental programs between 2008 and 2018 in the lower 48 states. The report compares 2018 funding levels to both 2008 dollars and inflation-adjusted 2008 dollars. 2008 Funding. Inflation Adjusted 2008 Funding. 2018 Funding. $116
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
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
Acoel
JULY 25, 2023
This document, issued pursuant to section 303(d) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, is a major step in addressing a problem that has garnered national attention. Through the TMDL the Ohio EPA seeks to achieve a 40 percent reduction in total phosphorus loading, based on a 2008 baseline, with a three percent margin of safety.
Law Columbia
MARCH 29, 2024
In 2008, Congress directed EPA to develop a rule to “require mandatory reporting of GHG emissions above appropriate thresholds in all sectors of the economy.” 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.
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