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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” The same suppression and disinformation kept government regulators at bay for decades.
Law and Environment
JANUARY 9, 2023
Especially when it’s good news about effective international cooperation on environmental protection issues. . That is in spite of the discovery in 2018 of “rogue” use of chlorofluorocarbons, probably from factories in China. It’s also noteworthy that the crackdown occurred without use of any enforcement mechanism.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 22, 2024
The federal Clean Water Act directs the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set and enforce the rules that regulate this pollution. But the current rules, which were enacted two decades ago, are woefully inadequate at curbing the environmental and human impacts of this dirty water deluge.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 15, 2025
Environmental Protection Agency released its first draft assessment of PFAS in biosolids, finding health risks for people living on or near areas where biosolids are land applied or deposited in an unlined landfill. Pathogens are also regulated for Class A biosolids, like Milorganite.) Yesterday, the U.S.
PA Environment Daily
MAY 14, 2024
Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right to Know request shows DEP took major enforcement actions against 26 shale gas drilling and pipeline companies in 2023, including imposing $2,290,849 in penalties for violations going back to 2018.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 2, 2021
percent in 2018. percent in 2018. Regulators and public-interest groups were initially concerned about community-level affordability — whether a town’s residents, in aggregate, could raise enough money to operate and maintain their systems while meeting all water quality standards. percent of households in 1980 to 6.7
Circle of Blue
JULY 14, 2022
Utah regulators have identified high numbers of toxin-producing algae in the southern reaches of Utah Lake , a water body notorious for summer algae outbreaks. California regulators passed an emergency order in June that took small steps to address the supply-demand imbalance. 3) Cutbacks Are Inevitable. Clunky, perhaps.
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