Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

The sun receives a constant stream of energy produced by nuclear processes that generate an immense amount of heat, light, and radiation. This radiation hits the atmosphere and is absorbed by the ozone layer which reduces the most harmful. At the center of our solar system is a star that we call “The Sun”.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

The 2010 DCNR study also found "radium values are high enough that a possible radiation hazard exists, especially where radium could be adsorbed on iron oxides and accumulate in brine tanks." [ Read more here.] Read more here. The release of [radioactive] radium, a known carcinogen, is a potential threat to human health.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

However, in some programs like air quality, hazardous waste, safe drinking water, radiation protection, storage tanks and others, Pennsylvania chose to adopt many federal regulations by reference. [So [A good example is surface coal mining where Pennsylvania has adopted specific laws and regulations regulating this activity.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

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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EPA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Examples of these additional statutory requirements include: the Food Quality Protection Act. the Safe Drinking Water Act , the Clean Air Act , and. the Toxic Substances Control Act. OCHP also convenes stakeholders. Read more.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

laws, including: the Clean Air Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) also known as Superfund; the Clean Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); and the Safe Water Drinking Act.

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EPA

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation. I am proud that our country’s actions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) and global action under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol) mean that the ozone layer is expected to recover to pre-1980 levels.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For decades, Mary has been one of the country’s leading contributors to local, state, and federal action on air pollution, first as an attorney for the Center of Law in the Public Interest, where she was one of the first advocates to file a suit under the Clean Air Act.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

She had previously worked in EPA’s air and radiation office where she “played a key role in the administration’s efforts to address . Pruitt and the EPA complied with the order and eventually decided to repeal the Clean Power Plan. [19]. President Obama selected Gina McCarthy as EPA administrator in 2013. [2]. global warming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Many other states in recent years have decided they would follow Californias standards, as they are allowed to under the Clean Air Act. Holding high-level positions in the Office of Air and Radiation are Abigale Tardif and Alex Dominguez.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

The full Committee also approved amendments adding solar radiation management and wildfire science to the list of climate change research topics funded by the bill. Another amendment from Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) directs NSF to fund research about graduate student mental health and well-being. An amendment from Rep.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

’s climate policy: a finding under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The Clean Air Act tasks EPA with regulating “pollutants” from numerous sources. C limit the global community committed to in the Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015. EPA well known.

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