Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Funded by the Erb Family Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, the project comes on the 50 th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, a high point of environmental diplomacy, and the U.S. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. There are many others. In 2009, the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

environmental organizations, and climate activists were appropriately enthused last summer when Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act. How is it possible that legislation billed as an environmental protection statute ends up as a primary threat to clean water and communities? In 2016, the U.S.

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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.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency created the term “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation”, (CAFO) as part of a regulatory scheme for enforcing the Clean Water Act. Methane is a greenhouse gas that traps heat more effectively than carbon dioxide. Greenhouse gases are major drivers of global climate change.

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

Call for Nominations for 2023 ESA Regional Policy Award ESA seeks nominations for its annual Regional Policy Award to recognize a local or regional policymaker who has integrated environmental science and policy in initiatives that foster more sustainable communities. Courts Federal judge blocks news Clean Water Act rule in Texas and Idaho.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In the United States, excess nutrients build up in waterways from Lake Erie to the Gulf of Mexico, precipitating algae outbreaks that kill fish, close public drinking water utilities, and pollute water. Environmental Protection Agency is undertaking a mandatory review of federal drinking water standards, due in 2023.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Scientific provisions in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee bill is largely similar to the House bill: The Fish and Wildlife Service receives $200 million for Endangered Species Act recovery plans and $9.7 The Environmental Protection Agency receives $100 million for air quality and climate research.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

The Rundown An EPA proposal to cut mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants would decrease water pollution and accumulation of pollutants in fish. President Biden vetoes a Clean Water Act rollback. An EPA survey of drinking water utilities estimates the number of lead service lines.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

James successfully sued to subject Formosa to an environmental review over the 800 tons of toxic air pollutants as well as the 13.6 million tons of greenhouse gases that the project is expected to emit annually. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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MGKF Law

APRIL 9, 2023

of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed states’ challenges to President Biden’s social cost of greenhouse gases established pursuant to Executive Order No. Five days later, in The State of Louisiana, et al. Biden, Jr., 22-30087, 2023 WL 2780821 (5th Cir. Wiener, Jr.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

President John F Kennedy introduced the Clean Air Act in the US as one of many introduced in developed nations with heavy industry (15). Deeper into the 1960s, Richard Nixon signed the executive order creating the Environmental Protection Agency. It is not technically a subcategory of the science of conservation.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2022

Anchorman Frank Blair reported that “a government scientist” had told colleagues at the American Geophysical Union that “over-pollution, unless checked, could so warm the earth in 200 years as to create a greenhouse effect, melting the Arctic ice cap and flooding vast areas of the world.”. Which brings us to this Earth Day.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

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? The case involved EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. Train, 420 U.S. Massachusetts v.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Officially, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines a CAFO as an animal feeding operation where a specific number of animals are kept indoors for at least 45 days a year and crops are not sustained during growing seasons. California enacted its LCFS to combat greenhouse gases (GHGs) being released into the atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other governmental entities to allow continued enforcement of environmental laws related to ongoing mining operations.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

history, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin yesterday unveiled its intent to unleash an unprecedented assault on dozens of science-based standards that safeguard the environment, protect public health, and ensure the federal government does its part to restore the Chesapeake Bay.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases, and that this authority may prove central to addressing climate change under the statute. This language is nearly identical to that of Clean Air Act Section 202(a), which the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. Alternatively, the U.S. See 16 U.S.C.

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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. Protect Our Aquifer v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Agency , the Supreme Court formally announced its embrace of the MQD, holding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not have authority to issue a greenhouse gas emissions rule that shifted electricity generation away from coal. Env’t Prot.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Circuit Court of Appeals granted motions seeking to dismiss as moot the proceedings challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which established emission guidelines for greenhouse gases from existing power plants. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection , No. Conservation Law Foundation v.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. Chao , No.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The House passed an infrastructure package that includes a historic federal investment in water systems. Congressional Republicans introduce a bill that would narrowly define the scope of the Clean Water Act. The EPA orders officials in a Michigan city to address lead-contaminated drinking water. WOTUS in Congress.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

Supreme Court hears Clean Power Plan case. Maryland State Senate Committee advances a bill to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. Lawmakers give the Environmental Protection Agency a 3.5% under the Clean Water Act to the pre-2015 standard. International. Fish and Wildlife Service receives $1.65

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

More News: Biden unveils new rules to curb methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from oil and gas operations – The Washington Post. Interior to weigh greenhouse gas emissions of proposed 2022 oil lease sales – Reuters. New court ruling clears path for Bristol Bay Clean Water Act protections – National Fisherman.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 11, 2022

In a 6-3 decision last week, the Supreme Court restricted the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to curb climate pollution from power plants. . The decision leaves intact the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, and even allows it to regulate power plants on a case-by-case basis.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The plaintiffs’ complaint asserting National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act, and Rivers and Harbors Act violations included allegations that the U.S. The groups alleged, among other things, that BLM failed to consider the lease sales’ effects on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Oregon Supreme Court Directed Changes to Ballot Title for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency on January 19, 2021, Renewable Fuels Association moved to voluntarily dismiss its petitions for review challenging the exemptions in the Tenth Circuit and the D.C. The court also rejected claims under the National Forest Management Act, the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Nominations: President Biden nominated Christopher Frey to be the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant adminstrator for research and development. EPA to cut greenhouse gases thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide – Washington Post. Hawaii Wildlife Fund.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told colleagues in a letter that passing both infrastructure bills would put the country on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030. Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act. commitments Paris Climate Agreement.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Bureau of Land Management failed to take a hard look at the indirect and cumulative impacts of greenhouse gases associated with a coal lease that authorized expansion of a coal mine. ruled in 2019 that BLM had failed to adequately assess the potential impacts of greenhouse gas emissions for certain oil and gas leases in Wyoming.

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

Sean Casten (D-IL) ‘s Climate Risk Disclosure Act ( H.R. This bill requires publicly listed companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and how climate change will impact their businesses to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The House Financial Services Committee approved Rep. 2570 ) along a party-line vote.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

s challenge to the constitutionality of the linkage between California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program and Quebec trading program. Army Corps of Engineers’ motion to hold in abeyance a case challenging the Trump administration’s rules defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act.

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

The full Senate narrowly voted to confirm Janet McCabe as the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. will halve its greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels. The Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for Clean Water Act permitting, dams, aquatic ecosystem restoration projects and other issues.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. CEQ is also planning to revive guidance on how to factor greenhouse gas emissions and climate change into NEPA reviews, after Obama-era guidance was yanked by the Trump administration.

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