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The Top-Ten Lower Court Decisions on Environmental Law

Legal Planet

The Supreme Court soon picked up on this language, and the concept was written into the law when Congress amended NEPA in 2022. The court said EPA did have to preserve clean air, EPA worked up some rules, and Congress ultimately added elaborate provisions on the subject to the Clean Air Act. Sierra Club v.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

EPA’s AirToxScreen uses the National Air Toxics Assessment to offer a location-based screening tool that shows long-term cancer and health risks given air emissions of hazardous chemicals over a person’s lifetime. What is our government doing to keep us safe from harm?

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West Virginia v. EPA Limits the Federal Government’s Power to Promote Clean Energy and Combat Climate Change

Law and Environment

EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. What does this mean for clean energy projects?

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U.S. Dept. Of Justice Indicts Erie Coke (Coal) And Corporate Officer For Violating Federal Clean Air Act Over 4 Years

PA Environment Daily

On November 17, Erie Coke Corporation, along with a corporate officer, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on among other charges, Violation of the Clean Air Act, United States Attorney Cindy K. McDaniel and Martin Harrell are prosecuting this case on behalf of the government. Chung announced today.

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Ask a Scientist: It’s Getting Easier for US Car Owners to Go Electric

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since the beginning of 2022, electric vehicle sales in the United States have been downright electrifying. This has been particularly true in your home state of California, which historically has set the clean car agenda for the rest of the country because of its waiver under the Clean Air Act to set its own air pollution standards.

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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. However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. Overburdened communities cannot wait any longer.

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PennEnvironment, Clean Air Council Win Record $42 Million Air Pollution Settlement Covering 3 US Steel Facilities In The Mon Valley, Pittsburgh

PA Environment Daily

On January 26, PennEnvironment and Clean Air Council announced they will file in U.S. District Court on Monday a proposed consent decree in settlement of their federal Clean Air Act lawsuit against United States Steel Corporation. The agreement mandates that U.S. Most of the penalty money ($4.5 Steel spent $17.5