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Celebrating 30 Years of Environmental Progress As The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

A key milestone in this was the approval of Act 537 planning for ALCOSAN’s Woods Run Treatment Plant expansion in 2018, a critical step to ensure the region’s long-term wastewater needs are met in an environmentally responsible way.

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Chile’s Lithium Boom: A Green Revolution or Environmental Ruin?

Law Columbia

However, its institutional focus on productivity and growth, limit the extent to which environmental and community concerns are meaningfully integrated into lithium governance.

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New York’s Climate Superfund Act Forces Polluters to Fund State Climate Adaptation Projects

Acoel

These laws borrow the Superfund moniker from the long-established federal environmental remediation law, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). Multiple other states, including California , Massachusetts , and New Jersey , have proposed similar legislation.

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Maine, Massachusetts, and Maryland Expand Utility Regulators’ Mandate to Include Climate Considerations, Marking an Emerging Trend by State Legislatures

Law and Environment

Despite the fact that utility regulators play a huge role in our energy sector–the sector primarily responsible for historical U.S. While several states have formally allowed regulators to work in an environmentally responsible manner, existing provisions have not specifically called out climate change.

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Oil & Natural Gas Facility Health Impacts Assessment Bill Introduced In The House

PA Environment Daily

Photos: Top- Natural gas flaring within sight of a school, Environmental Health Project , FracTracker Alliance , PennEnvironment ; Filter clogged with drill cuttings from “dusting” operations ; Bottom- Indiscriminate road dumping conventional drilling wastewater ; 2018 explosion of brand new Revolution Pipeline in Beaver County.)

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France is an Example of How Not to do Residential Greenhouse Gas Reduction

Greenbuilding Law

Many believe changing hundreds of years of building in a few short months is too much too fast and may well bring a similar result as the gilets jaunes , the yellow jacket wearing demonstrators, who protested in France in 2018 over a proposed carbon tax on petroleum.

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Montrose Environmental Group (MEG) Names Cory Davis Executive Vice President

Montrose

For more than two decades, Cory has spearheaded CTEH’s growth into one of the nation’s leading science-based environmental response and consulting firms,” said Josh LeMaire, COO of Montrose. In 2018, he received UA Little Rock’s Fribourgh Award for his significant contributions to the scientific field.