Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

EPA’s own scientists concluded in 2016 that the risk value of ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than previously understood. In 2016, the EPA updated the air value for ethylene oxide (called an “inhalation unit risk factor”) using more recent and robust science. What can be done?

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

At a contentious board hearing on May 7, 2021, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) approved a first-in-the-nation rule to regulate trucking emissions from warehouses by a 9-4 vote. Bledsoe and Jennifer Garlock. Transferring and Banking Points. The ISR includes several provisions intended to provide compliance flexibility.

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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. Environmentalists have long complained that regulators are too quick to green light new chemicals.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable.

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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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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

When California voters legalized cannabis in 2016, a key argument for legalization was that legalization would benefit the environment. Only a relatively small fraction of cannabis cultivators are believed to have entered into the legal, regulated market, leaving many cultivators still in the black market.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2023

Agency officials told us that EtO is one of the most dangerous chemicals the agency regulates. The agency determined the chemical’s potency back in 2016–finding that it was up to 60 times more toxic than previously understood–but it took a recent lawsuit by Earthjustice for the agency to act. There is no safe level.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Climate Week events highlighted commitments and actions needed from the financial sector and other corporations to support and spur government ambition. While Citi touts its $1 trillion Sustainable Finance by 2030 Goal, that figure includes the bank’s full range of environmental, social, and governance investments.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It has left Benton Harbor with a water treatment plant in such disarray that regulators say it can’t reliably produce clean water, even before that water is shunted into a delivery system that includes pipes made of toxic metal. State and federal regulators note they’re not yet recommending any particular course of action.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

There is similar lack of regulation on the nitrogen-rich manure produced by contemporary animal agriculture. The result is that nitrates are causing health and ecological trauma in farming regions across the country and around the world as farmers and governments intensify their efforts to produce more food from each acre of land.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2024

Canada promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions after the 2016 Paris Agreement. The federal government has set targets and policies for most sectors in the economy….except Why financial regulation? Regulations are like the guardrails on the highway – they ensure safety and order.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

government’s response to forever chemicals in drinking water. The previous advisory level, set in 2016, was 70 parts per trillion for the two chemicals combined — that’s more than 10,000 times higher than the new level just for PFOA. Plus, Circle of Blue reports on the U.S. Transcript. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But other localities, such as Austin, TX , and Miami-Dade County, FL —have been barred by their state governments from enacting local protections. At the local level, a few localities—including Phoenix , Tucson , and Pima County , Arizona—have passed ordinances protecting city or county workers. Shorter-than-needed acclimatization periods.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2024

Our brief speaks in particular to the important role that local governments play in reducing GHG emissions statewide, and the chilling effect that a lack of certainty about preemption by the State’s 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, or CLCPA, could have on their ability to pass ambitious laws to address climate change.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In 2016 Taylor was awarded the Michigan Environmental Council’s Petoskey Prize, the state’s top honor for grassroots activists, for her meticulous research on CAFOs, and for managing ECCSCM’s water quality monitoring program, which has 56 sampling sites across the county. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The article explored the frameworks established by the Bamako, Basel, and Stockholm Conventions to regulate transboundary hazardous waste movement and highlighted case studies from Nigeria, Cte dIvoire, and Haiti. 6] The majority of environmental regulations were formulated through the twentieth century.[7] million people.[3]

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 21, 2021

It’s rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when over 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water. 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. They have more data and sharper insights….and

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

That percentage was actually the same for wildfires between 2016-2020 in California – a high-risk wildfire state. From 2000 to 2016, wildfire damage to California’s transmission and distribution systems amounted to more than $700 million. In 2019, a fire in Maui came within 150 feet of an oil-fired power plant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

The refinery was a major polluter, according to 2019 report by the City of Philadelphia it was the largest stationary source of air pollution and the largest single emitter of toxic pollutants in Philadelphia, accounting for 57% of total toxic emissions from larger sources in Philadelphia in 2016 including benzene and other known carcinogens.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Power companies will therefore have to pay more for the fuel, but utilities are generally allowed by state regulators to pass those cost increases onto their customers in the form of higher electricity rates. Henry Hub is the national benchmark for wholesale gas prices (Source: US Energy Information Administration ).

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 29, 2021

Just thirteen Zip codes represent nearly three-fourths of flood damage claims paid in Chicago between 2007 and 2016. 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. A “Smart” City Approach.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

in September 2016. Plants regulate their salt concentrations much like how our bodies regulate blood pressure. Photo: © Dr. Raghupathy Karthikeyan / Clemson University. Chalmers first began to worry seriously about salt when Hurricane Matthew struck the southeastern U.S. Photo © Manan Sarupria / UD.

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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. 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al., 2016 , LaHue et al.,

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Electricity nerds might be writing off the prospect of new gas plant contracts because of the forthcoming Federal Clean Electricity Regulations (CER). One is that gas plant contracts signed (or renewed) before 2025 will be able to evade meeting the national CERs beyond 2035 which is when the regulations are supposed to kick in. .

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Regulation targets emissions from auxiliary engines (which supply electricity for non-propulsive functions while a ship is berthed) and boilers (which power steam-driven pumps to offload crude oil from large tankers). On February 13, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. 93130 et seq). Western States Petroleum Association v.

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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

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 billion in 2016 to $11.6

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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. hour leak of hydrogen sulphide gas 2016 — Sarnia, ON: 21 to 43 barrels of broiler cleaning acid solution 2017 — Cold Lake, AB: 1.2 That’s not all.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

million homes over the next decade in Ontario, also changes environmental protections and regulations required for development plans. Archipelago has filed a resolution demanding the province’s administration reinstate environmental regulations and conduct analyses that have not yet occurred.

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MARCH 23, 2023

Of course, Big Oil’s resistance to new setback rules, safety regulations, and climate goals is neither new nor unexpected. million to buy their way onto the California ballot in 2016 in an attempt to veto a statewide plastic bag ban. CalGEM has “ long faced criticism that it was too cozy with the industry it regulated.”

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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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