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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

I named the Priority Pollutants a moment ago, which are 129 chemicals of interest under the Clean Water Act, RCRA, one of two federal laws governing hazardous wastes has several hundred “Appendix IX” groundwater monitoring compounds. I will organize my discussion by key laws. Each law has thousands of regulations.

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The US Supreme Court is Operating Like a Rogue EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

The plan cuts power plant and industrial ozone pollution that wafts from central parts of the nation into eastern states. According to the American Lung Association, nearly 120 million people in the nation—one of every three—lives with unhealthy levels of particle and ozone pollution. A 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling (Chevron v.

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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 4.22.22

PA Environment Daily

Million To Help Cover Home Energy Costs -- WHYY: Philly Area Finally Off The ‘Worst 25’ List For Ozone Pollution, But Still Gets Failing Grade -- DCED Announces Grant To Fund Industrial Site Reuse Environmental Assessment In Clarion County -- MCall: Emmaus Sues Makers Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Over Groundwater Contamination -- Insurance Dept.

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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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100 Days of Fear & Loathing in Climate World

Legal Planet

. “They’ve done more damage to the environment in these 100 days than they managed to do in the whole first term,” Christine Todd Whitman, EPA administrator for President George W. Columbia Law’s Climate Backtracker has them in a handy spreadsheet. Bush tells Newsweek.

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Policy News: April 25, 2022

ESA

In an executive order made in honor of Earth Day, the White House announced the creation of a U.S. The agency will use funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support this work. EPA – Public Meetings of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Ozone Panel (April 29). Federal Register opportunities.

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Policy News: May 9, 2022

ESA

Blog post: Accounting for Nature on Earth Day 2022. 4083 ) to overhaul the country’s hardrock mining law. This conclusion matches the conclusion of another analysis of ozone air quality standards released in 2020 during the Trump administration. Martin Heinrich introduced legislation ( H.R. 7580 & S.

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