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Minnesota Needs Environmental Protections for Cumulative Impacts. Your State Does Too.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Should it become statute, this bill would give additional regulatory authority to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (the state regulatory agency) to limit or deny an environmental permit if the proposal would result in significant additions to the cumulative environmental and public health stressors around the facility.

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Ask a Scientist: What Value Do Wetlands Provide?

Union of Concerned Scientists

She holds a PhD in environmental health engineering from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was a policy fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and has also worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Senate Committee Hearing on Nomination of Lee Zeldin to be Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency Scheduled for January 16, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.

Nanotech

Senator Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), has scheduled a hearing on the Nomination of Lee Zeldin to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Thursday, January 16, at 10:00 a.m. appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

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No More ‘House of Horrors’ Thanks to These New Laws

Legal Planet

The magazine noted the legislation was developed in response to a report published by the California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2021 that linked synthetic food dyes to hyperactivity and other neurobehavioral effects in children.

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NEPA in the Supreme Court (Part I)

Legal Planet

In what could turn out to be another loss for environmental protection in the Supreme Court, the Court is about to decide a major case about the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). The case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v.

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Federal Court Ruling on a Reservoir Expansion Could Have Big Implications for the Colorado River

Inside Climate News

Army Corps of Engineers violated the National Environmental Protection Act and the Clean Water Act when it approved expanding a Colorado reservoir. By Wyatt Myskow A federal district court judge ruled last week that the U.S.

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Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Exceed EPA Estimates, Study Finds

Yale E360

A new study finds that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has severely underestimated methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas development, adding to a growing body of work showing that pollution from drilling is greater than EPA figures would suggest. Read more on E360 ?.