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Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Incremental (step-by-step) approaches In 2022, the EPA published an Environmental Justice Legal Tools document and a Cumulative Impacts Addendum. These documents describe how the EPA understands their legal authorities to assess and address cumulative impacts and environmental justice.

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State “Climate Superfund” Bills: What You Need to Know

Law Columbia

These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites.

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Biden Administration Accelerates Federal Regulation of PFAS

Ohio Environmental Law

EPA intends to propose a rulemaking in 2022 to categorize the PFAS on the TRI list as “Chemicals. EPA expects to issue a proposed regulation in Fall 2022 to establish a drinking water standard for PFOA and PFOS (before the Agency’s statutory deadline of March 2023). A HAP designation will trigger strict control over PFAS air emissions.

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DEP Testimony Provides Overview Of Budget Request, Progress On Permitting, Environmental Justice, Infrastructure Investments, PFAS, Watershed Cleanup, Climate, Clean Energy Initiatives

PA Environment Daily

million to improve the Bureau of Air Quality’s air monitoring capabilities, with particular focus on oil and gas activity. The plugging of these wells is of vital importance as they emit potent greenhouse gases, hazardous air pollutants, and volatile organic compounds and can impact local water supplies, human health, and wildlife.

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Lessons from the Pandemic About Making Decisions Without Statutes

Acoel

Posted on January 11, 2022 by David G. 9, 2022) at SR-7. Times No. 9, 2022) at SR-7. In my January 2021 column for the Legal Intelligencer ’s Pennsylvania Law Weekly I suggested the opposite, or maybe an inside-out version of the same thing: “[t]he governmental response to the viral pandemic is. Mandelbaum.

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PFAS…The Forever Chemicals

Capaccio

For Reporting Year 2021 (forms due by July 1, 2022), 176 PFAS are reporting. The list of PFAS subject to TRI will be frequently updated with additional PFAS added to TRI in 2022. Build the technical foundation to address PFAS air emissions . The Clean Air Act requires EPA to regulate hazardous air pollutant (HAPs) emissions.

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. ” EPA plans to publish an updated TRI dataset in the fall, which the Agency will use to develop the 2020 TRI National Analysis, which it intends to publish in early 2022 and which will provide more detailed information. N: See 85 Fed.

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