Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. When facilities emit less pollution, their regulations require less specific record-keeping and monitoring.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

On December 4, the Department of Environmental Protection announced grant awards totaling $600,000 to 12 community organizations across Pennsylvania through the new Pennsylvania Engaging New Voices on Environmental Justice program. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Government-To-Government grant.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Despite this, a year later, Imperial Oil has not faced charges or penalties under the Fisheries Act or provincial environmental protection laws. “It Governments watch as oil companies break the rules, raking in record profits while leaving an environmental disaster. One of the incidents spilled 5.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2024

Last week, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized updated regulations for certain facilities that emit ethylene oxide (EtO), a colorless, cancer-causing gas. For the first time, the government will regulate fugitive or “unintended” emissions and require permanent total enclosure of sterilization operations.

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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. As an example: suppose EPA issued a “request for public comment” on a draft rule related to toxic air pollutants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

The federal Clean Water Act directs the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set and enforce the rules that regulate this pollution. But the current rules, which were enacted two decades ago, are woefully inadequate at curbing the environmental and human impacts of this dirty water deluge.

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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. To stymy regulations so that businesses have and even freer hand. Everyone else.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The facility in South Memphis was among the most dangerous commercial sterilization facilities in the United States, featured by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one of more than 20 facilities contributing to “elevated cancer risks” in nearby communities. EPA is currently reviewing comments on the proposed rule.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Emission levels adhere to state regulations that fly in the face of federal Environmental Protection Agency standards. Safeguards for science in government decision-making are crucial to the health and safety of underserved communities — in fact, they are a matter of life or death.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 24, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and various state governments have been busy at work setting new PFAS standards, prohibitions and … Continue reading A new year brings new PFAS regulations and reporting requirements Read the full story from Warner Norcross + Judd.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

What is missing is the strength of will within government to get this sorted.” – Guy Linley-Adams, a solicitor for Salmon and Trout Conservation. “The law is clear and has been since 1991. Sustainable Urban Planning Could Help Solve Mexico City’s Water Scarcity Problem. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS.

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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. In that decade, the federal government created the U.S. Rhode Island followed in 1987, and was the last state to do so.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We got some bad news this month: a federal court judge ruled in favour of Big Plastic’s self-serving arguments and against the government’s approach to regulating plastic pollution. But what does this mean for regulating plastics in Canada? Are single-use plastics still being banned in Canada? Well, it’s a bit complicated.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In order to enforce those standards, the state must be granted a waiver by the Environmental Protection Agency, something which Congress makes very clear should be given under virtually all conditions. Over 10,000 UCS supporters chimed in with EPA in support of granting California’s ability to enforce its truck regulations.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 1, 2022

and Canadian governments assess the state of the Great Lakes. The Bureau of Reclamation releases a draft environmental impact statement for the White Mountain Apache Tribe water system. 420 Million : Funding for water infrastructure and education improvements included in a compact signed with the government of Timor-Leste.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 Environmental protection laws must be enforced in response to incidents like last year’s major spill and leak from Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine. The Alberta government must be cautious not to overreach its jurisdiction. This is too little, too late. Less than 0.1

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 25, 2022

The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). Conference of Mayors in West Virginia v.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

At a contentious board hearing on May 7, 2021, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) approved a first-in-the-nation rule to regulate trucking emissions from warehouses by a 9-4 vote. Bledsoe and Jennifer Garlock. Transferring and Banking Points. The ISR includes several provisions intended to provide compliance flexibility.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 9, 2023

Especially when it’s good news about effective international cooperation on environmental protection issues. . Even in this day and age, release of the 2018 report and the resulting attention brought to the issue was apparently sufficiently embarrassing to the Chinese government to cause it to crack down on the use of CFCs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2023

Since then, my husband and I were, at the very least, exposed when we biked through the area around the Hanover plant that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined exceeded the federal cancer risk threshold. Agency officials told us that EtO is one of the most dangerous chemicals the agency regulates.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 3, 2023

Yesterday, the Biden announced a new Sustainable Products and Services procurement rule, which requires federal government buyers to prioritize sustainable products and services, and expands the categories of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ecolabel standards for federal purchasing to a series of new sectors.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If the government of Ontario hoped that abolishing the Environment Commissioner, and transferring the position’s responsibilities to the Auditor General would free it from accountability on climate change, wilderness conservation, pollution and species at risk protection, it must surely be disappointed. . ENDANGERED SPECIES.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 25, 2021

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 6, 2021

Until better regulations are finalized, the easiest way to protect your water is through a filtration system. But dealing with chemicals seems more complicated for regulators. Environmental Protection Agency and water treatment plant operators do participate in a program called the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Toxicology Program, and the International Association of Research on Cancer classify EtO as a substance that can cause certain cancers. What is our government doing to keep us safe from harm? What are the health impacts associated with breathing it?

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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. The same lawyer bragged that using friendly courts to block regulation is “much more efficient” than trying to win the argument in the public sphere.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, announced new regulations enhancing pipeline safety and governing hazardous liquids pipelines owned by public utilities in Pennsylvania are expected to be published as final this month and take effect in November.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 28, 2022

Both categories are regulated by the Office of Conservation within the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. The pertinent regulations are in Statewide Order No. In the meantime, the Environmental Protection Agency remains the primary enforcement authority for Class VI wells.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2025

. -- DEP, PA Infrastructure Investment Authority published notice in the March 15 PA Bulletin inviting comments on environmental assessments for water infrastructure projects to be considered for funding from Allegheny, Butler, Cambria, Clearfield, Fayette, Lancaster and Somerset counties. Click Here for previous chart. Greene County. (

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

There is similar lack of regulation on the nitrogen-rich manure produced by contemporary animal agriculture. The result is that nitrates are causing health and ecological trauma in farming regions across the country and around the world as farmers and governments intensify their efforts to produce more food from each acre of land.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

It is the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) responsibility to regulate chemical facilities appropriately. Outdated protections put communities at risk. What the EPA must do.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

During my more than two decades of federal service, I learned many things about the function of government. They are encouraged to do this by the federal government via the Justice40 mandate, but largely are allowed to decide how they will do their community outreach. Let’s slow down here on this point.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The young left-wing candidate made environmental issues central to his campaign, and has since chosen a cabinet with strong environmental credentials, but faces challenges in implementing his progressive programme. Photo credit: ZUMA Press / Alamy. By Francisco Parra Galaz . Drought and carbon neutrality. “By

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In the absence of a federal heat standard, hundreds of thousands of farmworkers remain without protection. Personal protection equipment mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency—including long sleeves and multiple layers—are often uncomfortable to wear in warmer weather and can cause overheating.

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