Conservation Environmental Protection Regulations 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 1, 2024
This decision , reached with a 6-3 majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts, marks a significant shift in administrative law and has profound implications for environmental regulations and climate accountability. However, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority saw this as an opportunity to dismantle the doctrine altogether.
Law Columbia
APRIL 10, 2025
Seaweed cultivation and sinking are regulated by a number of different laws at the state and federal levels. The ADF&G regulates seaweed cultivation, providing aquatic farm operation permits. Independent of the joint permit, the ADEC also regulates water quality in Alaska. EPA may regulate seaweed sinking under the MPRSA.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 8, 2024
It’s been a rough few weeks for the US legal framework for protecting public health and safety and science-based decision making. That means virtually every regulation on private action intended to serve the public good will be delayed, delayed, and delayed. To stymy regulations so that businesses have and even freer hand.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
It also wants to destroy environmental regulation, especially climate law. The combination of authoritarianism, extreme conservative ideology, and anti-environmentalism is common globally, not just in U.S. Researchers have found links between two psychological dispositions and hostility to environmental protection.
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 24, 2025
PA Bulletin, page 886 ) PA Bulletin - January 25 2025 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 90 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the January 25 PA Bulletin - pages 797 to 887. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Earlier this year, environmental health advocates scored a big win when the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) updated the ethylene oxide sterilizer rule requiring commercial sterilizers to significantly lower their emissions. Overburdened communities are not being protected fast enough by these incremental approaches.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 9, 2024
When facilities emit less pollution, their regulations require less specific record-keeping and monitoring. How stringently facilities are monitored should be based on science and on the impacts on the people who live nearby—not by a judge’s ideological viewpoint on regulation.
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