Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In the United Kingdom, regulators have temporarily given water utilities permission to treat wastewater to a lower standard. Government regulators expect that the chemical distribution problem will be short-lived. In India, a government program is bringing running water to more homes in areas of high-poverty. Transcript.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. After the 2014 Toledo water crisis, the binational International Joint Commission tried to put a price tag on the event. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue. September 20, 2022

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 Any credible solution to the toxic tailings problem starts with replacing the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) with an effective and fair regulator that works in the public interest, not for the industry it is intended to regulate. times the size of the city of Vancouver. Less than 0.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2023

It’s likely our neighborhood was most exposed from the time the neighborhood was developed in 2007 until 2014, when the plants installed scrubbers in their smokestacks. Agency officials told us that EtO is one of the most dangerous chemicals the agency regulates. Could my family be affected? There is no safe level.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. Despite the clear health risks, there are no dedicated federal regulations to ensure comprehensive and safer management of radioactive oil and gas materials. What does this mean for workers and communities?

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Though testing capabilities and our knowledge of the risks have improved, regulations to protect America’s waterways, and ultimately its drinking water, from a range of troubling contaminants have been slow to follow. Since the discovery, Ann Arbor has spent $1.5 Since the discovery, Ann Arbor has spent $1.5 In the case of PFAS alone, a U.S.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The community action group Detroit Water Brigade delivered water in August 2014 to city residents whose water had been shut off because of late payments. The recommendations also relate to government aid, including technical and financial assistance to low-income communities and utilities. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Utility companies, as well as state and federal government regulatory agencies, made a series of questionable decisions that together created the situation we find ourselves in today. Three decades of deregulation allowed private companies, as opposed to public regulators, to make critical decisions about reliability.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

And to the west, in Mendocino County, coastal towns fret about dry taps, while the Russian River is so depleted that state regulators have told grape growers not to withdraw any water from it. Thousands of wells in the state went dry in the previous drought , in 2014 and 2015, mostly in the southern San Joaquin Valley.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In Uganda, national regulators are cracking down on the illegal destruction of wetlands in an attempt to reduce flood risk in the east African country. Regulators are keen to act because wetlands reduce flood risk by absorbing heavy rains. Transcript. Until recently, truck drivers who poured the fill met little resistance.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In this blog post, we summarize our research on how some local governments in California are regulating development in high fire areas. But a majority of the housing units that San Diego County approved in 2014-17 were in those areas. The first blog post (providing an overview of the issue) is here.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The first step in regulating agricultural methane emissions (and emissions in general) is to develop an accurate inventory of emissions, which can be used to set a baseline for future targets. Agricultural Methane Regulation. Emissions Inventorying and Baselining. Incentive and Subsidy Programs.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

By Kelly Jedrzejewski, Penn State News In 2014, Jane Cook joined the second-ever training class of Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward volunteers. 20 Webinar [PaEN] -- Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 21, 2021

In 2014, in the town of East Porterville, so many wells went bust that Tulare County set up portable public showers. The trend lines aren’t promising, so government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for a difficult summer in which thousands of wells could fail. Wells are regulated at the county level, not the state.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design. Despite California regulators’ stated interest in pricing based on marginal costs, however, fixed costs have often been bundled into volumetric rates. Regulators are acting on these redistributive concerns. But this principle isn’t new.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). Western utilities may be more interested in sticking with California and joining EDAM if CAISO has an independent governance structure.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Groundwater use will total about 400 million to 500 million gallons annually, and local governments and citizen groups have objected. . billion gallons of water a year to serve its 90,000 residents.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 27, 2023

As relevant here, the City certified a Final EIR in 2014 (2014 EIR) for a General Plan Update (GPU) with a 2035 development horizon. The Findings addressed each of the environmental issues studied in the 2014 EIR and compared the effects of the Project to those of the adopted GPU.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Why it matters: With rainfall totals less than half of normal at best and just 10 percent of normal in the worst areas, Circle of Blue reported in 2014 that farmers were leaning on water from the Ogallala aquifer more than ever before. Those caught without a permit can be fined $2,000 and have their boat confiscated.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 29, 2021

Chicago‘s Stormwater Management Ordinance, or SMO, governs new development and redevelopment in the city and regulates how rainfall is captured, stored, or released at each site. Because of city policy, local drainage systems in Chicago are deeply intertwined with private sector development. A “Smart” City Approach.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 12, 2022

The return of an area to its pre-industrial state is known as reclamation, and the Alberta Energy Regulator is charged with certifying areas as reclaimed once they meet certain criteria. The Alberta Energy Regulator has confirmed that no tailings have ever been certified reclaimed to date. What is so special about 2015?

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Second, because most development is approved at the local level in California, any response either requires state intervention into local land-use regulation (always politically controversial) or alternatively getting local governments to address the problem themselves, no small task in a state with hundreds of cities and counties.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

And if you want to challenge the power that Brad Corson has you can help us hold Imperial Oil accountable for its recent toxic tailings disaster by clicking here to send a letter to the federal government and government of Alberta. Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

Over the past several years – and especially in the past few months – Premier Doug Ford’s government has made sweeping changes to environmental protection and land use planning rules across Ontario. . The regulations accompanying many recent changes included in Bill 23 have yet to take effect. Source: TRCA Regulation Mapping.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A study of the causes of the explosion suggested the need for stronger safety regulations. In some cases, such as the PES refinery, the oldest and largest refinery in the East Coast, the legacy of pollution is particularly severe because of the lack of environmental regulations during the site’s first century of operation.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

After the government passed new rules to crack down on greenwashing, the Pathways Alliance scrubbed its website and social media of all of its climate and carbon capture content. The following is a list of leaks and spills that occurred at Imperial facilities during his tenure as CEO there: 2014 — Sarnia, ON: 3.5-hour That’s not all.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

Environmental Defence is calling for climate finance regulation so that Canadian financial institutions like banks and pension funds help us work towards a safer climate and stable economy by reducing the money flowing into fossil fuels. And many people, including those in the government, are falling for it.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It It is important to note that once a mining permit is issued in a forested area, there must be deforestation, but the problem is that current mining regulations in Indonesia still allow such a thing to happen.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

Fresh from the Great Lakes News Collaborative Air Force dispute with state environmental regulators could jeopardize new PFAS extraction project — Michigan Radio Michigan is the king of potato chips. The EPA has identified “principal recipients” of grant funds to include nonprofit organizations, tribes, local governments, and universities.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Our analysis looked at drought responses within the upper Klamath Basin—an 8,000-square-mile ecological region that encompasses most of Klamath County and parts of northern California—and drew from interviews from dozens of sources, including scientists, agricultural groups, tribal representatives, conservation experts, and government officials.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The Freedom Industries chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia exposed holes in state and federal regulations for chemical storage tanks. On January 9, 2014, a chemical tank at Freedom Industries in Charleston, West Virginia, leaked into the Elk River. Summary: . A new Senate bill – S. By Ashley Welsch. However, West Virginia law.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Effective September 10, 2021 , the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council revised FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, and related FAR sections to address an inconsistency between that clause and the corresponding Small Business Administration (SBA) regulation at 13 C.F.R. § 125.6.[[N: N: SBA promulgated 13 C.F.R.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

Citywide policies and regulations for sustainable development — especially development in the floodplain — and flood mitigation solutions will require coordination with the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, License and Inspections, the Department of Public Property, the Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Department and more.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

“Grant’s efforts have included the passage of multiple ordinances and a Home Rule Charter (local constitution) that we at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) have worked to draft with them, and defend in court, since 2014. In the first case, brought in 2014, the judge – who owned stock in the oil company KBR, Inc.,

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

To rapidly reduce methane emissions, governments (at the local, state, and national level) will need to develop legal, regulatory, and incentive policies that require implementation of available cost-effective methods and support development of new strategies. 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al., 2018 , Petersen et al.,

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Law 1715 of 2014 on non-conventional renewable energy sources. For example, the law ordered the Colombian government to issue specific rules on the specific definition of short-, medium- and long-term as it relates to the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) (art. Among the main legal statutes are: Law 164 of 1994 on the UNFCCC.

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