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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This new regulation would apply to delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In a major win for community members in South Memphis, Tennessee, a facility emitting a toxic air pollutant— ethylene oxide (EtO)—announced late last month that it will close its doors. We also estimated that EtO emissions contributed to more than 80 percent of the cancer risk attributable to toxic air pollution around the facility.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you do corporate work, you can focus on ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance). Or you can work for the government — for instance, as someone who prosecutes environmental crimes. Energy regulation is increasingly entwined with the need to cut carbon emissions. One important area for work involves the energy sector.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Supreme Court interpreted the statute to place an absolute priority on preserving endangered species, regardless of the impact on the economy or other government goals. In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit. This case is a century older.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

It was a big step towards providing adequate health protections, but Environmental regulations need to look at people, not just pollutants—and the way to get there is by assessing cumulative impacts. For example, compliance demonstrations for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are based on multi-source analyses.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

Months ago, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an “emergency” request to stay EPA’s new rule regulating interstate air pollution. A Supreme Court case called EME Homer upheld EPA’s general approach to regulating interstate air pollution. Circuit even had a chance to consider the merits of the challenges.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Another statistic, one that’s not so favorable: Laredo is among the top 20 locations for heightened cancer risk, thanks to a medical sterilization plant emitting a toxic pollutant that increases the risk of leukemia, particularly for children.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

First, there’s air pollution. Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality. Exposure to NOx and other gas infrastructure air pollutants has been associated with respiratory illnesses and an increase in childhood asthma rates. VY: They do.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 20, 2024

The public’s ability to weigh in on new rules and regulations proposed by agencies lies at the heart of a strong democracy. It offers a critical mechanism through which members of the public can have a direct say in the decisions our government is making. Federal agencies are required by law to read and consider these comments.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Since global and local pollutants are often byproducts of the same activities, mitigation policies for global warming emissions have the potential to simultaneously mitigate local air pollution 2. One good example of the nexus between global warming and local pollution is ground-level ozone. Bermix Studio/Unsplash PM2.5:

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

District Court on Monday a proposed consent decree in settlement of their federal Clean Air Act lawsuit against United States Steel Corporation. Clean air is a right, not a privilege, for all Pittsburghers,” said David Masur, executive director of PennEnvironment , the citizen-based non-profit and state group for Environment America.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Our system of environmental regulation divides up regulation of a single substance based on each of its environmental impacts. The extraction phase can involve destruction of lands, risks to endangered species, water pollution from oil spills or leaching from mines, and serious dangers to workers. Consider coal.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Shapiro Administration Launches New Discover State Grants Website To Streamline Access To Government Funding Opportunities DEP Holds Nov. Shapiro Administration Launches New Discover State Grants Website To Streamline Access To Government Funding Opportunities DEP Holds Nov. 26 to Nov. 26 to Nov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I’ve written previously about how the truck industry is fighting regulations at the state and federal level with everything they’ve got. One of the scare tactics truck manufacturers have been pushing is the old industry canard of job-killing regulations. Why would truck regulations impact jobs? Source: ERM 2022 ).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The process requires the government to assess past progress, project future emissions, and come up with a strategy to meet its climate goals. AB32 then provides an extensive list of factors that the board must consider in crafting regulation to implement the plan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2024

In the Ohio v EPA case, states sued over an Environmental Protection Agency rule requiring them to consider the effect on other states of air pollution generated in their own state. The same lawyer bragged that using friendly courts to block regulation is “much more efficient” than trying to win the argument in the public sphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

In late April, California air regulators are poised to pass one of the most meaningful regulations to reduce pollution from commercial trucks, vans, and buses. pollution from vehicles. A full transition to electric drayage truck operations in 2035. After 2036, all new MHDVs sold in California will be electric.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Even when accounting for pollution from electricity generation, electric trucks can significantly reduce air pollution and get us on a better track to addressing climate change. Some of the same researchers are currently working on a comparable study for the United States and their preliminary results are similar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. What is happening in California, and how quickly could that be replicated in other states?

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2023

There are Supreme Court cases going back a century or more dealing with what we would now consider environmental issues such as preserving nature or air pollution. I began with a Westlaw search for the term “air pollution.” The earliest opinion I found was Huron Portland Cement Co. City of Detroit. Seattle Disposal Co.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The guidance also comes on the heels of efforts by the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which recently issued a report outlining how the federal government as a whole can better incorporate public participation in rulemaking processes. So, what does this mean in practice?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This week, the federal government discussed their ambition to tackle highly hazardous and cancer-causing chemicals regulated under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). Almost 15,000 people die from air pollution every year in Canada. Improvements were made to Bill S-5 when it was introduced in the Senate.

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Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

This week marked significant growth for the building electrification movement, as the legal pathways in use by local governments to catalyze electrification doubled in number. This week’s advancements offer two new models for local governments looking to require or promote building electrification: air pollution and land use regulation.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

They will be working alongside our faculty director (formerly faculty co-director) Ted Parson—an accomplished scholar of environmental governance—as well as me and my colleague Cara Horowitz, shaping the strategic direction of the Emmett Institute. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Wildfire smoke containing a variety of air pollutants and particulate matter, especially in the West, has increased the chances that farmworkers will experience adverse health hazards such as asthma and respiratory disease. If governments or regulatory agencies don’t protect farmworkers, who will?

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 23, 2021

On Monday, Boston released a draft of the first phase of regulations intended to implement the amended BERDO ordinance signed by then-Mayor Janey in October. . The first phase of the regulations is focused only on reporting issues. The “informal” public comment period on the draft regulations will remain open until January 14.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2023

In US government data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), we see industrial chemicals in low concentrations but “pre-mixed” in pregnant women — in their blood, fat, and breast milk — and in their babies. As quoted in our paper , Dr. Ellen Silbergeld says, “to regulate mixtures, the law must be changed.”

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Breezometer

JUNE 16, 2021

Researchers even found a correlation between maternal exposure to air pollution and increased susceptibility for Autism Spectrum Disorder in the third trimester of prenatal development. Children are particularly susceptible to the harmful effects of pollution as their lungs are still developing: Short-term Impact.

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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2024

Catastrophic wildfires are fueling complex and extensive public health impacts, including air pollution-related mortality and a growing toll on mental health. Wildfire smoke presents a population-wide health risk in California.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 4, 2021

With that wide public sentiment for fireworks, there is actually almost no environmental regulation for the setting off of millions of little explosions of the more than 99% of fireworks imported from China. But, San Diego does regulate fireworks for locations near the coast, requiring expensive permits (.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2024

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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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

It was filed by the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union and the Green League, who object to a 30-year groundwater pumping permit given by state regulators. The lawsuit claims that the state government did not adequately address climate change when approving a water use permit for the 5-billion Euro factory.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

pollution, which are particles with diameters of 2.5 In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7 A recent study found that more than 99 percent of the global population is exposed to unsafe levels of PM 2.5 micrometers or less. million deaths globally. What can be done?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2023

Agency officials told us that EtO is one of the most dangerous chemicals the agency regulates. to meet with EPA officials about its proposed regulations , which the agency released in May. The local government and school district now are spending $250,000 to install air monitors in Laredo to collect data on the community’s exposure.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

California’s leadership on reducing truck pollution has been on full display the past few years, passing critical regulations requiring 90 percent reduction in smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NO X ) emissions from diesel trucks and requiring manufacturers sell an increasing share of electric trucks to move away from fossil fuels altogether.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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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