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. These standards no longer adequately protect the public.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste. Reforms in 2016 required deeper reviews of tens of thousands of chemicals already in use, plus the new ones introduced each year. It’s frustrating,” he said. For example, U.S.
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PA Environment Daily
MAY 18, 2022
million penalty and make extensive improvements at its steel production facility in Braddock, Pennsylvania, as part of a settlement covering longstanding air pollution violations. Steel is required to make numerous improvements in training, monitoring and work practices to increase compliance and timely response to air pollution.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Madalyn “Maddy” Spellman lived in Aurora and died from cancer in September 2016, at age 13. This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. But the fact that the facility exists, Corrigan said, is an indictment of the state’s pollution-control measures. “It’s
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 15, 2022
Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler), expressed a concern DEP did not follow the provisions of Act 52 of 2016 which requires the EQB to adopt separate rulemakings covering conventional oil and gas wells.
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
The Energy Law Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
EPA also cannot require electricity generation to be shifted from coal-burning units to units that use other energy sources as a pollution control technology. Circuit may rule in the Fall or Winter of 2016. The Clean Power Plan usurps authority given to States by the U.S. Constitution and the Clean Air Act.
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