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EPA Rejects Industry Attempt to Downplay Ethylene Oxide Harms

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since 2019, a Texas state agency and its industry partners have been actively working to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) own science on the harms of ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas that affects thousands of people across the nation, especially those living in underserved communities.

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SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Sewage: You Can’t Make This Sh** Up

Union of Concerned Scientists

the Environmental Protection Agency In the recent Supreme Court case , San Francisco was disputing permit language for its Oceanside wastewater treatment facility, which has an outfall pipe that discharges 4.5 San Francisco City and County v. miles into the Pacific Ocean near Ocean Beach.

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DEP Plugs Conventional Gas Well Orphaned By The Well Owner That Contaminated A Clarion County Family's Drinking Water Well; Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Continue To Abandoned Their Wells - 767 Violations So Far In 2024

PA Environment Daily

On October 23, the Department of Environmental Protection began plugging a conventional gas well orphaned by the well owner that contaminated a family's drinking water well in Vowinckel, Clarion County. Read more here. Read more here. Visit DEP’s Orphan Well Plugging Grant Program webpage for more information.

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What is Ethylene Oxide? Answers to Your Questions about the Cancer-Causing Chemical

Union of Concerned Scientists

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Toxicology Program, and the International Association of Research on Cancer classify EtO as a substance that can cause certain cancers. What are the health impacts associated with breathing it?

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EPA Files $4.2 Million Settlement Of Air Pollution Violations For 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, Fire; Public Comments Invited

PA Environment Daily

Environmental Protection Agency announced the federal government has settled its final federal Clean Air Act (CAA) claim against Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining and Marketing, LLC pertaining to the June 21, 2019 fire and explosion at its former South Philadelphia refinery. On October 8, the U.S.

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House Republicans Now Want To Take Away All DEP’s Application Fee Revenue To Further De-Fund Environmental Protection Programs

PA Environment Daily

David Zimmerman (R-Lancaster) introduced House Bill 1755 which would take away all Department of Environmental Protection permit application fees collected by the agency and deposit them into the General Fund rather than into the accounts now set up in law to pay for specific environmental protection programs.

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Guest Commentary: New Italian Constitutional Reform: What it Means for Environmental Protection, Future Generations & Climate Litigation

Law Columbia

3156-B providing environmental protection amendments to Articles 9 and 41 of the Italian Constitution. The reform follows a global trend of increasing recognition of new obligations and rights in the field of environmental protection. 179/2019 ). By Riccardo Luporini, Matteo Fermeglia, and Maria Antonia Tigre.