Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Toxic Substances Control Act section 7 imminently hazardous chemical. Supreme Court regarding the Clean Air Act and other environmental statutes as to whether EPA is required to consider costs when promulgating a rule. There have been multiple cases that have gone up to the U.S.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

For example, EPA under the Clean Water Act established 129 “ Priority Pollutants ” in 1976, a list of which is a typical analytical suite that you can order as a package. Clean Water Act. Through this law, water pollution is managed by controlling wastewater discharges.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Beverly Wright, Vernice Miller-Travis , and Peggy Shepard, among others, shows that Black and brown communities are disproportionately exposed to and harmed by pollution. A myriad of studies since have validated these findings across a number of exposures, such as soot air pollution (PM2.5

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Indoor air (pollution) : coming under OSHA rather than EPA, there are laws in place to ensure that employees work in a clean and safe environment with good ventilation. Indoor air is anything contained with a building. It prohibits the discharge of polluting chemicals into US waters unless a special permit is granted.

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Environment, Law, and History

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Farber writes: Well over a century ago, the Supreme Court ruled that it had that power to remedy interstate water pollution. Six years later, the Court decided its first air pollution case. Yet the Court didn’t hesitate to address pollution issues. an interstate air pollution case. That was in 1901.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This framework allows state environmental laws passed pursuant to a federal environmental law, like the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) or Clean Air Act (“CAA”), to have the force and effect of federal law if the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) approves the state implementation plans.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Justice Alito has displayed similar cynicism about water protection.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

But in this blog post, I unpack an aspect of the decision where I think it was more of a mixed bag: the court’s treatment of the international air pollution provision of the Clean Air Act, Section 115. In my view, the court missed the mark, in the main. The book and related materials can be accessed here.).

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. The bill also would establish a grant program under the Safe Drinking Water Act for assistance to community water systems affected by PFAS to pay for capital costs associated with treatment technologies. The House bill ( H.R.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The plaintiffs’ complaint asserting National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act, and Rivers and Harbors Act violations included allegations that the U.S. ExxonMobil Corp. applied federal common law. The planned pipeline is to be 162.5 miles long and is intended to carry crude oil.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Washington Supreme Court concluded that the Washington Clean Air Act did not grant the Department of Ecology authority to regulate indirect greenhouse gas emissions of businesses and utilities whose products ultimately generate such emissions. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. The conservation groups asserted claims under NEPA, the Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The bill would amend Section 4 of TSCA to require EPA to issue a testing rule for all PFAS that would require manufacturers and processors of PFAS to develop information “likely to be useful in evaluating the hazard and risk posed by such substances in land, air, and water (including drinking water), as well as in products.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

The final rule also adopted an interpretation of Clean Air Act Section 111 that required, as a predicate to establishing NSPS, a determination by EPA that a pollutant causes or contributes significantly to dangerous air pollution.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

as a pollutant at all to the Clean Power Plan, which has no chance of clemency before its swift execution at some point in 2017. [14]. Additionally, under attack is the carbon pollution standard rule. “If However, the Clean Power Plan is currently tied up in the D.C. Pro-Growth Agenda for the 114th Congress.

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