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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The Clean Water Act (CWA), one of the nation’s most important environmental laws, is 50 years old today. The nation’s rivers, streams, lakes and ocean waters are dramatically cleaner and healthier than they were a half-century ago. (credit: Amazon). ” That obviously did not, and will not, happen.
Legal Planet
JUNE 27, 2024
My own priorities are public health, climate change, and preservation of biodiversity/ecosystems. Clean Air Act. In public health terms, what makes air pollution distinctive is the millions of people exposes to common pollutants such as particulates and smog. Clean Water Act.
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Legal Planet
MARCH 28, 2025
Why might we have an environmental review statute such as NEPA when we already have a range of other environmental protection statutes such as the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and more? Climate change is a classic example of cumulative effects. The first post is here.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 1, 2024
Five implications for climate accountability The elimination of Chevron deference significantly impacts the ability of federal agencies to enforce regulations — particularly those related to environmental protection and climate change, as many of these regulations were crafted to be flexible in interpretation by design.
Environment, Law, and History
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Use of federal common law to pursue water pollution cases enjoyed a big revival in the 1960s and early 1970s. It was ended by the Supreme Court, which held that the then-new Clean Water Act took over the field of interstate water pollution in lieu of court-made rules. Climate change.
Acoel
AUGUST 14, 2023
Take for instance: the burning Cuyahoga River that led to the Clean Water Act; the disastrous air pollution incident in Donora, PA that led to the passage of the Clean Air Act; the discovery of Love Canal that lead to the passage of Superfund; and most tragically, the chemical gas release in Bhopal, India that lead to the passage of EPCRA.
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 5, 2019
This blog is based on a talk given to the Climate Change: Response and Resilience Leadership Forum at Columbia University on November 20, 2019, sponsored by RenaissanceRe. We know that, mostly as a result of climate change, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe. By Michael B.
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