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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

The 4 big ones are the 1972 Clean Water Act , the 1970 Clean Air Act , the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act , and 2 hazardous waste laws having the acronyms CERCLA and RCRA, which I will explain later. Clean Water Act. The stated goal of the Clean Water Act is “zero discharge.”

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Air Quality as Environmental Justice

Legal Planet

Many studies have explored the differences in harm from air pollution to racial or ethnic groups and people who are in a low socioeconomic position, have less education, or live nearer to major sources of pollution.”. Those unequal pollution levels translate into more deaths, more asthma attacks, and more hospitalizations.

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Keep on Trucking

Legal Planet

To take just one example, to estimate the proportion of students of color near major freight routes, EPA used an Education Department database covering all U.S. and ozone concentrations as a result of the standards.”. The analysis drew upon numerous published studies, but also included evidence that the agency itself had assembled.

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Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

PA Environment Daily

On July 21, the Environmental Health Project and HealthFirstPA held an educational webinar entitled-- Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect Public Health and What We Can Do to Correct It. That picture looks very different from what we have right now. There is some truth to that.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

President John F Kennedy introduced the Clean Air Act in the US as one of many introduced in developed nations with heavy industry (15). Rachel Carson's Silent Spring highlighted many of the ecological problems that industrial and commercial activity was doing to our world.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

In an unpublished judgment, the court rejected the petitioners’ other NEPA arguments regarding project design and capacity and cumulative ozone impacts. The companies argued that even if state law did apply, the Clean Air Act and foreign affairs doctrine would preempt the claims. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , No.

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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

Law Columbia

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched.