Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Clean Water Act – It’s routine for EPA to take more than 10 years to act on NPDES permit renewals. The Clean Air Act – The Supreme Court has ruled that it does not provide authority for EPA to address the defining issue of our time. They created a pathway towards cleaning our air, water, and land.

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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. However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. Despite the clear health risks, there are no dedicated federal regulations to ensure comprehensive and safer management of radioactive oil and gas materials. What does this mean for workers and communities?

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2023

This 1960 case involved the application of Detroit’s air pollution ordinance to a ship docked there. The ship owner argued that the ordinance was preempted by federal boiler safety regulations and interfered with interstate commerce. The first use of the term “water pollution” came later, in a 1967 dissent from denial of certiorari.

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Environment, Law, and History

MAY 6, 2022

The turning point in the book is the winter of 1971 and 1972 where Nixon began to express serious concern that he would soon face major backlash from pro-industry voters if he continued to support stiff environmental regulations. “I I have an uneasy feeling that perhaps we are doing too much,” he wrote his chief of staff, H.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

She contends the federal Natural Gas Act mandates the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has “exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal which challenges any state agency’s action in either approving or denying a permit when the state agency acts on the basis of federal law.” of Bordentown v. “The

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Court’s embrace of the ill-defined “ major questions doctrine ” as the rationale for refusing to give any deference to EPA’s admittedly “plausible” interpretation of section 111 d of the Clean Air Act has raised the specter of the Court’s conservative majority taking a sharp axe to any number of environmental regulations.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Clean Water Act – It’s routine for EPA to take more than 10 years to act on NPDES permit renewals. The Clean Air Act – The Supreme Court has ruled that it does not provide authority for EPA to address the defining issue of our time. They created a pathway towards cleaning our air, water, and land.

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Environment Next

AUGUST 4, 2020

The important take away is that state environmental compliance inspections of regulated facilities will occur as planned in 2020 and 2021, but may be delayed or performed remotely. It remains uncertain exactly how remote inspections will proceed and what techniques may be used to ensure their validity.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Strengthen environmental regulations like the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and Toxic Substances Control Act protections to reduce pollution and climate impacts in fenceline communities.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Environmental impact assessments – Environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act and its state counterparts should consider the climate conditions expected at the end of a project’s useful life, not just at the start, to help ensure the project can withstand those conditions.

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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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Acoel

JULY 12, 2021

In reopening, EPA will remove an assumption that workers are provided and use personal protective equipment (PPE), which could expand risk management regulation to several chemical uses previously found not to present an “unreasonable risk” with the mitigating effect of PPE.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping plans to reconsider more than 31 major environmental regulations and programs, including pulling back regulations reducing methane emissions and regulating production wastewater from oil and gas operations. Click Here for the announcement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Robert Bullard, “environmental justice embraces the principle that all people and communities have a right to equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.”

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

Section 108(b) of CERCLA authorizes EPA [i] to develop regulations requiring owners or operators of certain “classes of facilities [to] establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility consistent with the degree and duration of risk associated with the production, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances.”

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Environment Next

JULY 22, 2021

The bill further requires EPA to list PFOA and PFOS as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) under the Clean Air Act and establish pretreatment standards and effluent limits for the compounds under the Clean Water Act. The bill now heads to the U.S.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Environmental regulation. EPA and agencies have dozens of guidance documents and regulations about analytical methods to be used for environmental samples. Based on regulations and scientific knowledge, commercial laboratories have an established suite of chemicals they typically look for in environmental samples. Limitations.

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Acoel

MAY 24, 2023

On May 16, the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments – again – on one of the largest citizen suit penalties ever awarded under the federal Clean Air Act. bars against citizen suits for entirely past violations of the Clean Water Act under the Gwaltney doctrine). In Environment Texas Citizen Lobby v.

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E2 Law Blog

JULY 18, 2022

Greenberg Traurig Tampa office Shareholders David Weinstein and Christopher Torres and Associate Kayli Smendec co-authored the chapter titled “Environmental Enforcement and Crimes” in Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: The Year in Review 2021, published by the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2025

Bartolotta contends the federal Natural Gas Act mandates the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal which challenges any state agencys action in either approving or denying a permit when the state agency acts on the basis of federal law. It was passed by the Senate, died in House.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. EPA – Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Water Act. Visit this page on ESA’s website for updates on opportunities from the Federal Register , including upcoming meetings and regulations open for public comment. .

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Acoel

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You Are Monsters!”), DMC decided to bring the pending action asserting that it has a constitutional right to untainted groundwater and that the discharges violated EPA regulations. DMC next claims that the regulations of the U.S. We agree that any reading of those regulations would identify multiple regulatory violations.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Mitchell | The Advocate | March 9, 2020 State regulators relied on nearly decade-old air pollution data to support their conclusion that Formosa Plastics' $9.4 James testifying against requested air quality permits for Formosa's planned petrochemical complex in St. USA: Deparment of Environmental Quality analysis for $9.4B

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 19, 2025

This month, in a series of despicable announcements, the EPAs newest senior leader set out to end the federal governments essential role in conserving natural resources and scrubbing poisons from air and water. The statutes that form the foundation of the program, like the 1972 Clean Water Act, dont seek to close polluting plants.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It is a practice and a philosophy, utilizing scientific tools and methods with applied ethics, and, where necessary, regulation and environmental law to limit the use of certain materials. Working to maintain biodiversity is conservation (regulate), making it illegal to build in a designated wilderness zone is preservation (eliminate).

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

Unless the Court moderates its views, future regulations will face tough sledding. The Clean Water Act requires that industrial sources reduce their discharges, but it left two big questions unanswered: Would EPA or the states set the pollution limits? With that as background, here’s the list in chronological.

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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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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. Connecticut ( AEP ), the Clean Air Act has displaced federal common law related to domestic GHG emissions.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Both animal and environment advocates have filed many lawsuits in this area, some of which have sought stricter regulation of CAFOs. There are also legal issues associated with CAFOs, such as the EPA failing to require Clean Water Act (CWA) and Clean Air Act (CAA) permits.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It may give the polluted-upon person a right to insist that the government consider the pollution before allowing the polluting facility to operate or before funding the polluting facility, and it may even create an obligation on the part of the government to regulate the existing polluting facility.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the trade group had satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending judicial review and stayed the rule “insofar as it purports to regulate trailers.” Murray Energy Sought Supreme Court Review of Fourth Circuit’s Dismissal of Clean Air Act Jobs Study Case. Foster , No. 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

The so-called No IRIS Act (H.R. Silencing this office would stifle the lifesaving health research that underlies our nations environmental protections, and would result in weaker regulations and higher rates of cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities, and other devastating health consequences, especially for children. 1415 and S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

Under section 172 of the Clean Air Act, relaxing a national air quality standard provides limited benefits for industry. The Clean Water Act contains two anti-backsliding provisions. That means that weakening existing regulations loses a lot of its value to industry. Sorry, Mr. President.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. The states appealed the dismissal of the case. Missouri v.

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ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

Donald McEachin (D-VA), requires federal agencies to consider cumulative health impacts under the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act while making permitting decisions and creates a fund to assist communities and workers as they transition away from “greenhouse gas-dependent economies.” Scott Peters (D-CA).

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