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Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Union of Concerned Scientists

However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act), as a result, EPA programs are often implemented narrowly, not holistically.

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EPA Will Not Require Financial Assurances From Electric Power Sector

Clean Energy Law

Section 108(b) and EPA’s Path to This Decision. What’s Next? EPA will take public comment on the proposed decision for 60 days after the notice is published in the Federal Register.

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12 Legal Tools to Push Climate Preparedness

Law Columbia

Permit conditions – Several statutes require permit holders to have and implement plans to prepare for extreme events – e.g., Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; Oil Pollution Act; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

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Moving the Needle on PFAS Regulation

Vermont Law

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. The Clean Water Act has also proven ineffective because EPA does not require limits on PFAS discharges into streams or rivers. EPA’s authority to remediate PFAS contamination is also limited under the. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

Based on regulations and scientific knowledge, commercial laboratories have an established suite of chemicals they typically look for in environmental samples. For example, EPA under the Clean Water Act established 129 “ Priority Pollutants ” in 1976, a list of which is a typical analytical suite that you can order as a package.

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New This Thanksgiving: Toxic Turkey

Legal Planet

Cooperation between conservation organizations and government , at a cost of nearly a half-billion dollars in private funds alone , has not only brought these birds back from the precipice but made them so plentiful that they roam residential streets from Boston to the Bay Area.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

Conservation: The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act ( S. billion annually to state and tribal fish and wildlife agencies for conservation and the implementation of state wildlife action plans. EPA – Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Water Act.

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