Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These components are also being assessed and used in regulatory decision-making by some government agencies at the local, state, or federal level. Site assessments for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act , or ‘Superfund’, include consideration of multiple exposure pathways and pollutants.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Tad Macfarlan is an experienced environmental and land use lawyer and a partner in the firm's global Environment, Land, and Natural Resources practice group. Tad's practice focuses on the environmental aspects of project development, transactional, litigation, and government enforcement matters (both civil and criminal).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency announced the federal government has settled its final federal Clean Air Act (CAA) claim against Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining and Marketing, LLC pertaining to the June 21, 2019 fire and explosion at its former South Philadelphia refinery. On October 8, the U.S.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 17, 2022

BOEM is authorized by federal law to issue leases, easements, and rights of way to allow for renewable energy development on the Outer Continental Shelf and, in doing so, is required to coordinate with relevant federal agencies and affected state and local governments to ensure that renewable energy development takes place in a safe and environmentally (..)

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

At this early stage, government involvement is especially needed to provide the monitoring, reporting and verification all parties desire to ensure any mCDR approach is not simply a greenwashing exercise. Participation by relevant groups will be crucial to ensuring projects are operated in an environmentally responsible and just manner.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As Founder and Director of Clean Air in London, Simon pressured city and federal governments for nearly a decade and managed to get the U.K. government to provide the official figures on premature deaths caused by air pollution. And while progress has been made, the fight for clean air is not yet over.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

EPA also looked at the financial health of the industry, cleanups in the sector, federal and state regulatory requirements governing releases of hazardous substances in the sector, and voluntary practices. Section 108(b) and EPA’s Path to This Decision.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

He also helped guide the successful rescue of nine miners trapped in the Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania in 2002 and the environmental response to the crash of Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.

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MGKF Law

JULY 14, 2024

25, 2024), that arranger liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”) requires a potentially responsible party to have knowledge that the waste it discards is hazardous. Alban Tractor Company et al. , 23-1155 (4th Cir.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In a real world example of green bleaching, we were recently asked to assist a business in bleaching all references to ESG and other environmental matters from their website and their annual report. submitting greenhouse gas data to a government as required by a BEPS program).

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2021

Research shows most consumers are less willing to buy from a company that doesn’t take its environmental responsibilities seriously. As with climate policy in general , the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is for governments to apply a carbon price to companies that mine cryptocurrency.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2023

law surrounding CO 2 pipelines is characterized by glaring governance gaps. In response to these challenges, Permitting CO 2 Pipelines identifies legal barriers to the rapid deployment of an interstate network of CO 2 pipelines supporting DAC Hubs, and provides recommendations to help federal and state lawmakers overcome these barriers.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2022

The government says this meeting will aim to “tackle the issue of housing affordability.” WHO: Tim Gray, Executive Director, Environmental Defence; Phil Pothen, Ontario Environment Program Manager, Environmental Defence.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 20, 2023

Commercial PACE is a financing mechanism that enables building owners to fund energy efficiency, renewable energy, water conservation projects, and the like, through private loans collected with government property tax assessment billings.

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Renewable Energy Government Climate Change Greenhouse 52

Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

This government policy, though commendable for its environmental aspirations, has negative implications for both tenants and building owners alike. Under an updated schedule, the government has mandated that from January 1, 2025, forward, buildings that are rated below F or 420 kWh per m² will no longer be allowed to rent flats.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 19, 2022

c) Until February 13, 2024, the procedures of ASTM International Standard E1527-13 entitled “Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process.”.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 28, 2022

Last year, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a regulatory branch of the British government, published the results of a global sweep of green claims. Brands often use images of nature and the colour green just to hint at environmental responsibility, without actually attempting any such thing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This incident is one example in a report we’ve recently published cataloging times that state officials have abused their power by ignoring or manipulating data, intimidating government scientists, and more to politicize and distort science in the policymaking process.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 24, 2021

May 24, 2021) , attempting to clarify which settlements with the United States or a state trigger a right to settling-party contribution under section 113(f)(3)(B) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), 42 U.S.C. 9613(f)(3)(B). Aviall Services, Inc. ,

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Green Bang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Governments and international organizations are beginning to implement stricter energy efficiency standards for AI deployments, requiring transparency in reporting energy usage and emissions​ ( Nature ). Regulatory measures will also play a role in driving sustainability.

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Acoel

JULY 19, 2021

The proposed changes are likely to create a lot of confusion about “controls” on contaminated property and could adversely impact prospective purchasers’ ability to assert their Landowner Liability Protections (“LLPs”) under the 2002 Amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”).

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Onya

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As a certified B Corporation, being socially and environmentally responsible is incredibly important to us so we’re proud to announce that on 20 September 2019 here at Onya it was not business as usual as we supported our employees to get involved and participate in the Global Climate Strike happening in Perth. Why strike for climate?

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

A Brief History of Federal Superfund Legislation In 1980, Congress enacted The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), more commonly known as Superfund. This monumental piece of legislation constructed a new tax on chemical and petroleum industries.

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Montrose

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For more than two decades, Cory has spearheaded CTEH’s growth into one of the nation’s leading science-based environmental response and consulting firms,” said Josh LeMaire, COO of Montrose. About Montrose Environmental Group, Inc. Phil Goad, CEO and co-founder of CTEH who retired in January.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The country has tried to tout its credentials in other climate-friendly areas throughout the years.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, eco-labels illustrate powerful tools of consumer-driven environmental protection and show that green-washing can be stopped through soft law approaches. Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. Environmental Choice. program that took into account the views of the Government, industry and the consumer.

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to designate two of the most widely used per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as the “Superfund” law.

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Law 2022 Environmental Responsibility 2019 52

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Agencies across the areas of disaster preparedness and response, environmental protection, commerce, housing, agriculture, and energy must take steps toward preventing, mitigating and responding to the release of hazardous and toxic materials resulting from hurricanes, tropical storms and associated flooding in coastal and riverside communities.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “Environmental Social Governance (ESG) an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Register today for the live virtual program. 9601) and petroleum products.”.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Statement from Keith Brooks, Programs Director, Environmental Defence Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – We are disappointed that the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled the Impact Assessment Act is unconstitutional in part. This is good news.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Cooperation between conservation organizations and government , at a cost of nearly a half-billion dollars in private funds alone , has not only brought these birds back from the precipice but made them so plentiful that they roam residential streets from Boston to the Bay Area.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

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. Sometimes these subgroups are further differentiated by their analytical method or governing regulation.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

California, Arizona, Nevada and the federal government reach agreement to reduce water consumption in the Colorado River basin. 2773 ) is that the Senate bill funds the program through penalties paid for natural resources and environmental violations while the House bill does not specify a funding source. Executive Branch.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2024

Plus, a newly announced Initiative to Advance the Frontiers of Benefit-Costs Analysis and Strengthen Government Decision-Making seeks engagement from researchers to inform future changes. A companion document explains how OMB incorporated public input in these revisions.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 9, 2021

This industry does not have a good track record in terms of their environmental responsibility and their ability to adequately control the contaminants that would be added to the bay. The post Colpoys Bay is under threat by a proposed land-based fish farm appeared first on Environmental Defence.

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