Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency et al. The petitioners who brought this case include state-level political officials and coal companies who are single-mindedly determined to block climate action and perpetuate fossil fuel dependence to serve their narrow political or business interests.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2022

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – Today, the Senate Energy, Environment and Natural Resources ( ENEV ) Committee completes its review of Bill S-5, a long-awaited government bill to modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Meg Sears, meg@preventcancernow.ca , 613-297-6042.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. On November 2, voters will be asked whether to amend the state’s foundational document by inserting language to protect individual rights to unimpaired ecosystems. Senate race.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 1, 2025

They have neither employers to provide benefits nor political parties to represent their interests. The team held focus groups with its members and, to their surprise, the younger members said that to stay relevant for the next half century SEWA had to focus on environmental protection.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Insufficient cleanup attempts In 1989, the Department of Energy entered the Tri-Party cleanup agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Washington to remediate the site , which is currently estimated to require another 70 years to complete. The last reactor was decommissioned in 1987.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Having eyes in the sky, either on airplanes or spacecraft, is transforming environmental monitoring and management. Environmental Protection Agency is leading a coalition to develop a satellite-based program to detect toxin-producing algae in lakes. Political sensitivities are an important consideration.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

3156-B providing environmental protection amendments to Articles 9 and 41 of the Italian Constitution. The reform follows a global trend of increasing recognition of new obligations and rights in the field of environmental protection. By Riccardo Luporini, Matteo Fermeglia, and Maria Antonia Tigre. 179/2019 ).

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In reality, the Highway 413 scheme is just another part of the same larger real estate and land speculation scandal that led to the Greenbelt removals has already caused two cabinet ministers and multiple political staffers to resign.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Host a webinar series to STEM the Vote In order to bring scientific research and data into discussions on political concerns we organized a STEM the Vote series of webinars focused on the top voter concerns of the 2020 election. The topics included public health, climate change, gun control, education, food security, and immigration.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

There are certainly a lot of people across the political spectrum who feel that way. Capitalism is blamed for environmental destruction by many of the more radical segments of the Left. State-owned enterprises in places like the old Soviet Union and in China have terrible environmental records. In the U.S.,

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

They worry that scrapping the project after it was approved by state and federal regulators would set a bad precedent for the state and subject future permitting decisions to partisan politics. Proponents of the transmission line have spent more money on their campaign. Senate race. This is the only new segment of the route.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 19, 2022

This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers a setback to the environmental rights of nature in Florida and a recent lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental Protection Agency faces a lawsuit over its recent action in response to PFAS chemicals in drinking water.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

In California, sampling carried out in June by the Environmental Protection Department of the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians revealed algal toxins in Clear Lake that were higher than state advisory levels. 4) Drought Is Political. A relatively recent development is the political muscle of the region’s Indian tribes.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Josh Shapiro announced the nomination of Jessica Shirley to serve as Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. Rowe and Acting Secretary Shirley are experienced, dedicated public servants and I am proud to nominate them to serve as Secretaries and continue their work in education and environmental protection, said Gov.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2021

A proposal to extend the road 94 miles through this Andes-Amazon “transition zone,” to reach the Peruvian border, is gaining political momentum. . They say it will bring development but, as always, it will be development for half a dozen people,” Miguel Scarcello, the head of environmental group SOS Amazônia, told the Guardian.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For many, the future we look to depends on the person in power, and because of the constantly shifting whims of politics, that future is continuously changing. These Amendments can provide a more stable environmental future for citizens because the environment is no longer subjected to the will of shifting politics.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Despite the obvious dangers of fossil fuel production and the multi-decade climate disinformation campaigns fossil fuel producers have perpetrated, the industry still holds political sway. Domestically, the plan hinges on a newly proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production.

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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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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Weeks before the November 8 election, national political debate centers on control of Congress. Wilce is the treasurer of Arizona Water Defenders, the political action committee that brought the question to the ballot. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 26, 2022. State Spending.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It’s proven to be one of the most successful of America’s bedrock federal environmental statutes. And the most politically-contentious and unsettled feature of the CWA is a separate program Congress included in the CWA to regulate and limit the dredging, filling and destruction of our nation’s wetlands.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2024

February 27-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 10:00- Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. February 26-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 1:00- Department of Agriculture. House Floor. House Floor.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency surveyed more than 49,000 lakes across the country and found that 30 percent contained toxins produced by the blooms. Last year, the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based research organization, counted 476 harmful blooms in 41 states, five times higher than in 2010. . In 2009, the U.S.

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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. It was not a catchy slogan to write on a cardboard sign, but the message is important to all of our lives.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 23, 2022

A number of environmental advocates have been pushing a new strategy for environmental protection – seeking to pursue legal rights for elements of nature (such as rivers , lakes , ecosystems, or species), sometimes in alliance with Native American tribes. Here Penalver and Spitz acknowledge the potential – but also the risks.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2024

Bringing environmental advocacy to California may seem a bit like bringing coals to Newcastle or ice to the Arctic. But behind California’s reputation for environmental protection there is a lot of tough political infighting. A key question about this program is whether it could be used as a model in other states.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics has made an unusual change that will make the regulation of PFAS chemicals even harder , potentially letting thousands of these dangerous “forever chemicals” escape EPA regulation, thereby endangering the health of millions of people.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

February 27-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 10:00- Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Click Here to watch live. February 26-- NEW. to 4:30 p.m. House Floor. Click Here to watch online. February 27-- NEW. Agenda Posted.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – Tomorrow, the House Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), will begin a review of Bill S-5, government legislation that modernizes the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Also somewhat unusually for a House Republican, his webpage has positive remarks about environmental protection. His webpage even has an environmental tab: “Congressman McHenry appreciates the natural beauty of the United States, and western North Carolina is home to some of America’s most breathtaking scenery.

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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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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

On November 21, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has determined , in response to a rulemaking petition, the state Environmental Quality Board has the statutory authority to adopt a regulation setting more protective setbacks from shale gas wells for homes, schools and streams in its initial petition review.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency links proximity to agricultural land to high levels of toxic algal blooms in Midwestern lakes. HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine – Drought, a financial crisis, and political collapse are accelerating the country’s decline into all-out famine.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2024

How could we realistically achieve permitting reform that will advance climate and environmental goals? Answering that question requires recognizing the political realities of a sharply divided Congress and country. The second post is here. Any significant change to permitting reform requires a deal that is acceptable to both sides.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 6, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency and water treatment plant operators do participate in a program called the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule. That’s something political leaders have not been willing to do. So is the cost in human health and the medical costs in trying to treat those people.

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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. UCS member, Pennsylvania.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Scientific expertise without local, political, or legal knowledge is not enough to take on powerful organizations. The most useful evidence to support legal actions demonstrate violations of environmental protections afforded by laws like the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act.

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