2017 Pollution Control Regulations 
Circle of Blue
JULY 12, 2022
The Ohio EPA spars with federal agencies over pollution control in Lake Erie. Unusually wet conditions lifted the lake to record levels in 2017 and 2019, damaging property and critical infrastructure across the St. A Michigan agency announces a new program to monitor mercury contamination. Lawrence River basin.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. By Korey Silverman-Roati. Background. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims.
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CEQA Developments
AUGUST 23, 2021
All three landfills are operated by the County subject to oversight and permits by the County Department of Environmental Health Services, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. At the maximum, nitrate in Aurora is just below the federal standard, though the town did exceed the 10 parts per million (ppm) threshold in the summer of 2017, registering 11.4
Columbia Climate Law
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
2] Under a cooperative federalism framework, PURPA directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) to promulgate regulations to promote development of QFs and delegated to states the role of implementing FERC’s regulations. U-18090, May 31, 2017 Order (Mich. U-18091, July 31, 2017 Order (Mich. Footnotes. [1]
Legal Planet
AUGUST 24, 2023
This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards. Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. The history of these pollution standards is quite distinctive. Tier 3 standards were phased in starting with 2017 cars.
Vermont Law
APRIL 19, 2019
To make meaningful progress in lowering water pollution, the federal government should begin incentivizing agroecological practices that both allow farmers to keep their land in production and actively work to reduce excess nutrients, pesticide waste, and erosion. However, the CWA does not address agricultural pollution in a meaningful way.
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