2022 Environmental Protection Regulations 
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Groundwater regulation, legal rights to clean water, and spending measures highlight this election cycle. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 26, 2022. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 26, 2022. Local Regulation. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue. State Spending. Those are the state-level entries.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 13, 2022
The Year in Water, 2022. Sharpening the Shark’s Teeth By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 13, 2022. Spend a few days at a water conference and you’ll hear a favored metaphor for the environmental changes that are unsettling the planet. If climate change is a shark, attendees will say, then water is the shark’s teeth.
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Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Proponents of the amendment hope it will provide a legal tool for environmental protection. Farther west, in southeastern Arizona, groundwater regulation appeared headed to a split decision. In Willcox basin, over 61 percent of voters rejected a proposal to regulate groundwater. Voters in Douglas basin felt differently.
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.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 22, 2023
States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
There is similar lack of regulation on the nitrogen-rich manure produced by contemporary animal agriculture. Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to review national drinking water standards to consider whether updates are needed. The EPA is again in the middle of a six-year review of drinking water regulations.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 28, 2022
Environmental Protection Agency has warned that even miniscule levels of PFAS in drinking water can pose health risks. Alan Roberson is the executive director of the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators, a group that represents state regulators. This week Circle of Blue reports on the U.S.
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