Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers have found links between two psychological dispositions and hostility to environmental protection. Those who reject environmental protection see the harms as falling on others of lower status and become more likely to reject social equality generally.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 11, 2022

Since 2019, a Texas state agency and its industry partners have been actively working to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) own science on the harms of ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas that affects thousands of people across the nation, especially those living in underserved communities.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 9, 2022

To meet its climate targets, Indonesian businesses must act in partnership with Government and invest in circular business models that encourage regenerative efforts and improve environmental protections. The post APP Looks at COP27 Discussions on Achieving Net Zero and More appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has created a new environmental justice (EJ) mapping and screening tool called EJScreen in order to better fulfill the Agency's obligations relating to the protection of public health and the environment.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 9, 2022

To meet its climate targets, Indonesian businesses must act in partnership with Government and invest in circular business models that encourage regenerative efforts and improve environmental protections. The post APP Looks at COP27 Discussions on Achieving Net Zero and More appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has scheduled a series of two Virtual Public Listening Sessions — June 16th and July 8th — for the public to provide input on the EPAs Risk Management Plan (RMP) rule also known as the ‘Chemical Disaster Rule’ Along with members from various other environmental nonprofits, union labor organizations, (..)

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Last month, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued updated final guidelines for how the agency plans to “ meaningfully engage ” the public in health and environmental protection.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In New York state, voters have a chance to enshrine environmental protections in their state constitution, which could revive a legal movement that flourished in the United States a half-century ago. Environmental Protection Agency and passed landmark environmental laws to protect air, land, and water.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 9, 2023

Especially when it’s good news about effective international cooperation on environmental protection issues. . In these times of much woe, it’s always noteworthy when the mainstream media reports good news.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

If signed, the state would have to withdraw Clean Air Act waiver requests already in process with the Environmental Protection Agency. These four bills would introduce unnecessary delays, conditions, and exceptions into the ACF and CHC standards, weakening California’s ability to combat the diesel pollution crisis.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 29, 2023

were down slightly in 2022, but thousands of industrial facilities with substantial emissions remain, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s recently released Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program data. By Phil McKenna Emissions from the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

His most recent piece even goes so far to take a potshot at the federal National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and other “little NEPAs” in states across the US. But painting those processes and CEQA with the same brush is misleading, and wrong.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2024

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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NRDC

MAY 24, 2024

EPA, the worst judicial rollback of environmental protections ever. This weekend marks one year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Sackett v.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2024

In effect, judges with no subject matter expertise on the substance of a case will be deciding the technical details and best approach for a huge range of issues in public health, environmental protection, public safety, conservation and more. Well, you guessed it. Everyone else.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Environmental regulators announced new grants to help researchers investigate how harmful PFAS affect plants and animals in agricultural environments.

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National Law Center

AUGUST 13, 2024

On July 25, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released its highly anticipated draft Insecticide Strategy, the latest step in the. The post EPA Releases Draft Insecticide Strategy appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

Federal vehicle standards are needed to keep us on track We’re likely to see the next round of vehicle standards finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the coming weeks. By making historic investments in the U.S.

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Legal Planet

JULY 2, 2024

The Court summarizes that section as saying: “Whenever, in the judgment of the [Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)] Administrator. which shall assure” various outcomes, such as the “protection of public health” and “public water supplies.” discharges of pollutants from a point source or group of point sources.

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National Law Center

OCTOBER 10, 2024

On September 25, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released its Vulnerable Species Action Plan (“VSAP”), the finalized version of its. The post EPA Releases Vulnerable Species Action Plan appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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National Law Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

On August 20, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released its final Herbicide Strategy. The document, which was released in a. The post EPA Publishes Highly-Anticipated Final Herbicide Strategy appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Scientific American

APRIL 1, 2024

landfills emit methane at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the Environmental Protection Agency, often in concentrated plumes

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Act and its commission ensures that the public always has a right to access the state beaches, as well as placing environmental protections on any new proposed development. As a result, the state has ensured environmental protection across 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Second, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is in the process of setting regulations for future passenger vehicles—and casting doubt on EV sales is a tactic to push for weaker regulations. Are EV sales actually slowing?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates emissions of EtO, yet the agency is years behind on updating standards and control requirements, despite mounting evidence of the harm of long-term EtO exposure. Workers at these facilities and children who are exposed are especially at risk.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

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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NRDC

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, as the public comment period closed for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) to address the lead-contaminated drinking water crisis, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of comments support the.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 20, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency will be able to make for fiscal year 2022 through WIFIA , which provides low-interest financing for water infrastructure. Environmental Protection issued new warnings about the danger of PFAS chemicals to human health. Billion : Loans that the U.S. News Briefs. PFAS Health Advisories.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Proponents of the amendment hope it will provide a legal tool for environmental protection. Titusville sits next to Indian River Lagoon, an expansive waterway fouled by toxic algae blooms that are indirectly killing manatees. The blooms prevent sunlight from nourishing the seagrass that sustain the manatees.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to review national drinking water standards to consider whether updates are needed. Environmental Protection Agency were to tighten nitrate restrictions the consequences would be enormous. Every six years, the U.S. This one is scheduled to be completed next year. If the U.S.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

By Jake Bolster The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week approved a permit for a toxic fracking wastewater disposal well named Sedat 4A, a highly controversial project in Plum Borough, Pennsylvania, rejecting residents’ concerns that leaks from the well could migrate and pollute other wells and groundwater.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2021

In an effort to circumvent Serra do Divisor’s current safeguards, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies are seeking to demote its national park status to an “environmental protection area,” a misnomer workaround that would green-light deforestation, mining, and animal grazing, imperiling water overconsumption and river pollution. .

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General are on the ground in Jackson, conducting interviews. In late August, the treatment plant failed during heavy rains, leaving more than 150,000 people in the capital city without running water. Investigations into the crisis are now beginning.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2024

In the Ohio v EPA case, states sued over an Environmental Protection Agency rule requiring them to consider the effect on other states of air pollution generated in their own state. It’s a huge expansion of the power of courts, at the expense of both Congress and mission-driven federal agencies.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Environmental activists and residents in Benton Harbor, Michigan, are petitioning the Environmental Protection Agency to remove around 6,000 lead service lines throughout the community of only about 9,700 people. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS. 6,000 LEAD SERVICE LINES.

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