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Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Union of Concerned Scientists

These documents describe how the EPA understands their legal authorities to assess and address cumulative impacts and environmental justice. However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e.

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EPA Will Not Require Financial Assurances From Electric Power Sector

Clean Energy Law

Thus, EPA’s analysis relies on several additional factors: Other federal financial responsibility requirements. State law requirements. Section 108(b) and EPA’s Path to This Decision. EPA also takes the position that CERCLA’s list of factors is not exhaustive and that the statute is silent on how EPA should weigh the factors.

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Moving the Needle on PFAS Regulation

Vermont Law

Efforts to protect public health and the environment from PFAS have been hampered by major gaps in both federal and state law and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) unwillingness to act. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. Toxic Substances Control Act.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework.

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

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. I will organize my discussion by key laws. Each law has thousands of regulations.

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Biden Administration Accelerates Federal Regulation of PFAS

Ohio Environmental Law

To the extent practicable, EPA will group PFAS compounds to more efficiently evaluate their toxicity. To address gaps found, EPA will issue orders under Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Section 4 authorities to require PFAS manufacturers to conduct and fund studies evaluating toxicity of PFAS compounds.

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants. In June and July 2021, Maine enacted multiple laws that regulate PFAS both in products and in the environment. The House bill ( H.R. 21-191 (S.B. N: 2021 Me.

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