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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In an unpublished judgment, the court rejected the petitioners’ other NEPA arguments regarding project design and capacity and cumulative ozone impacts. Minnesota Court Affirmed Water Quality Certification for Line 3 Replacement Project. The allegations in support of their Endangered Species Act claims included that the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 28, 2025

When EPA is carrying out its responsibilities under the Clean Water Act, it needs to know what the latest high-quality research indicates about health harms associated with various pollutants. These agencies, and others, employ many experts who conduct research and summarize evidence.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. An ongoing Supreme Court case (Sackett vs. EPA) has the potential to shape the scope of this law.

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ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

EPA, Ruling Could Impact the Definition of “Waters of the U.S.”. ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. EPA – Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and CASAC Ozone Review Panel (Nov.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Biden administration moved Thursday to formally repeal the Trump administration’s controversial rule that vastly restricted the scope of Clean Water Act protections. EPA – Request for Nominations of Candidates for the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Ozone Panel. or WOTUS. “In United States.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Supreme Court reinstates Trump administration Clean Water Act regulation. EPA – Public Meetings of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Ozone Panel (April 29). EPA – Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Water Act. Senate committee approves conservation funding bill. Executive Branch.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Supreme Court to hear Clean Water Act case. This body will review the EPA’s scientific review of current ozone pollution standards. In 2019, the Trump administration opted to keep ozone pollution standards the same. Executive Branch. Interior Department seeks nominations for the Invasive Species Advisory Council.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

EPA: Administrator Michael Regan announced that that agency will repeal the Trump administration’s 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which replaced the Obama administration’s 2015 Clean Water Rule. EPA – 2021 Annual Joint Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Northeast Visibility Union (June 15).

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ESA

MAY 15, 2023

The report authors argue that the legal requirements of the Clean Water Act to reduce nutrient levels in the Chesapeake Bay prevent states and the EPA from investing in other approaches to improving the Chesapeake Bay, such as habitat improvement projects.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

The SAB Staff Office is especially interested in scientists with the expertise described above who have knowledge and experience relating to criteria pollutants (carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen oxides, ozone, particulate matter and sulfur oxides). Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced that the agency will rewrite a Trump administration regulation that limited state’s ability to block pipeline and fossil fuel export facilities under the Clean Water Act. EPA – National Environmental Justice Advisory Council Meetings (June 17).

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

Regan and the EPA’s top water official, Radhika Fox, announced that the agency will hold listening sessions across the country this summer and fall to seek stakeholder input about how the agency should define streams and wetlands under the Clean Water Act.

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