Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 13, 2025

Yet in one of his first official acts as Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT), Sean Duffy delineated a set of principles governing DOT funding (to the extent there is any legal discretion). The Mount Vernon Memorial Parkway is the first modern highway built by the federal government. And that might not be a problem.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Municipal drinking water failures like the crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, are also threats to government legitimacy. Teodoro, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Circle of Blue that tap water in the United States is the “most intimate relationship between a government and its people.”

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Continual reform is necessary so that emissions trading systems do not become merely symbolic regulation, or even worse create harmful negative consequences for climate policy – by for example subsidizing fossil fuel use or preempting useful complementary regulations. Implications for China. Stay tuned. Download as PDF.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Groundwater regulation, legal rights to clean water, and spending measures highlight this election cycle. Voters in parts of Cochise and Graham counties will decide whether to join the state’s more populated districts and regulate groundwater extraction. Local Regulation. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 9, 2022

Short-Changing Michigan Local Governments Has Resulted in Deteriorating Water Systems and Other Services. Getting enough money from the state and federal governments to help maintain city services has become a struggle for many Michigan municipalities. Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S., water systems are aging.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” The same suppression and disinformation kept government regulators at bay for decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The EPA is getting ready to finalize a critical regulation limiting emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NO X ) and soot (or particulate matter, PM 2.5 ) from new heavy-duty trucks. State regulations have strict inducements, so the degree to which EPA aligns with such parameters is important. Limits on mal-maintenance/tampering.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In addition, the impact statement was governed by the 1970 version of NEPA and the 1978 White House NEPA regulations. It was a surprise that the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. The facts are quite unusual. Neither of those is in effect today. Thus, the relevance of any ruling to future agency actions is unclear.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Sabin Center has previously discussed the regulation of OAE here and here. A new Sabin Center report continues the conversation by focusing on the regulation of OAE in Washington State. OAE projects conducted in near-shore areas off the Washington coast may be subject to regulation at the federal, state, tribal and local levels.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The argument is that the Board shouldn’t have to consider that because EPA has authority to regulate air pollution, not the Board. Yet would anyone say that the government should therefore ignore the risk of a lab accident. Other agencies may have jurisdiction over disease control.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

But the federal government in the United States has failed to address it so far. Aviation is a significant and growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. Opponents will undoubtedly argue that such state-based initiatives conflict with federal law.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Critically, AB 3233 clarifies and confirms local government authority to regulate, and even prohibit outright, oil and gas operations. In so doing, the law acknowledges the traditional role of local governments in exercising land use controls to protect the public health and safety of their residents.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2025

It is unlikely that the government will last long once Parliament resumes. At the top of the list of key climate regulations that need to be finalized before March 24th is the governments cap on pollution from the oil and gas industry. If a policy isnt finalized before March 24th, its unlikely to ever be. Time is ticking!

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Growing scrutiny from responsible business practices from shareholders, regulators and other stakeholders is driving a boom in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting. The post Integrate Your Supply Chain to Meet ESG Objectives appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 26, 2023

State government units. Moreover, agencies can apparently give greater responsibility to local government units (which aren’t covered by subsection (G)) and to state governments for actions that are federally regulated but not federally funded. Coverage of agency regulations. Content of the agency regulations.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 4, 2022

Michigan’s Lack of Septic System Regulations is Causing Problems for Some of its Most Pristine Lakes Failing systems can allow contaminated water to seep through the earth into nearby bodies of water. In the early 2000s, state environmental regulators told the village to fix the problem or the marina would be shut down. .

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

The prospect of climate interventions, particularly SAI, might offer large reductions in climate-change risks that are not possible through emissions cuts, adaptations, or atmospheric removals alone, but also raise serious new uncertainties, risks, and governance challenges. This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The regulations aim to provide a legal framework for China’s carbon allowance trading market by strengthening requirements and designating responsibilities. The Regulations fill in the regulatory vacuum that has existed since 2021. By Hui Xu , Paul A.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

Joining The Meeting The meeting will be held in Room 60 East Wing starting at 10:00 a.m.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

In much of the country, those wholesale transactions are under the control of regional transmission organizations established by federal power regulators, but that’s not true everywhere. In those states where rates are regulated, regulators can do some things to shift these incentives.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Klein Chair, who has long studied public utility regulation, electricity market design, and renewable energy finance. I’m excited to work alongside Emmett Institute faculty like William Boyd, faculty co-director and Michael J.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Governments watch as oil companies break the rules, raking in record profits while leaving an environmental disaster. The Alberta Energy Regulator has shown us over and over that it is willfully neglecting to keep us safe from toxic waste and pollution. One of the incidents spilled 5.3 million litres of industrial waste.

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Environment + Energy Leader

AUGUST 11, 2022

A new report says carbon capture and storage will keep growing, especially with a focus on heavy industries and government regulations. The post Heavy Industries Help Drive Steady Carbon Capture Market Growth appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2024

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Montréal/Tiohtià:ke | Traditional, unceded lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka/Mohawk Nation, a gathering place for many First Nations, including the Anishinaabeg – We are disappointed that the Government of Alberta is attacking the federal government’s attempts to clamp down on greenwashing.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 8, 2024

Instead of informing downstream communities, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) helped Imperial cover up the spill for over nine months. Shockingly, this was the first time local Indigenous nations, the federal government and the public were informed about the leak! Where rules do exist, they aren’t enforced.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It galvanized the environmental movement and it pushed the federal government and Congress to carry out scientific research on pesticide contamination and to act on that research. Carson also explicitly called out the hypocrisy inherent in government agencies at the time. And yes, they really were that hyperbolic.

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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. When facilities emit less pollution, their regulations require less specific record-keeping and monitoring.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As the Paper states: The Heritage Foundation’s Schedule F proposal would change the current system dramatically.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

Transmission policy is vital to supplying grid modernization, and some state governments see their role in planning ahead for the grid we need. States should be heard on transmission When regulators make policy, utilities listen. Where do we go for that modern infrastructure?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Governments and developers should work to educate the public about the safety mechanisms incorporated into battery storage systems. Codes and standards are typically developed by model code-making organizations, then become law when adopted by state or local governments. Fire department preparedness is incredibly important.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you do corporate work, you can focus on ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance). Or you can work for the government — for instance, as someone who prosecutes environmental crimes. Energy regulation is increasingly entwined with the need to cut carbon emissions. One important area for work involves the energy sector.

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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. The proposal also introduces regulations for E. Speak up for clean water The EPA is holding public hearings this month on the proposed rules regulating slaughterhouse water pollution.

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Legal Planet

MAY 6, 2024

Is it unconstitutional for the government to build a levee that reduces the risk of urban flooding but diverts the water to nearby farmlands? The answer could be yes, unless the government pays for flood easements on the rural lands. But if the government doesn’t build the levee, it faces no liability from the urban landowners.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Taken together, the need for governments to meaningfully regulate these super polluters has never been clearer. Advisory opinions provide a court or judge’s interpretation of a law, and are delivered in response to a question from an official, agency, or government. What is an advisory opinion?

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Our system of environmental regulation divides up regulation of a single substance based on each of its environmental impacts. At the current government estimate of the social cost of carbon, that comes to $150 billion in long-term damage each year. Thus, the regulatory system sees the “trees,” not the “forest.” Consider coal.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 19, 2023

When it struck down Obama’s signature climate regulation in West Virginia v. For him, the stakes are enormous, involving “basic questions about self-government, equality, fair notice, federalism, and the separation of powers.” The major questions doctrine (MQD to insiders) has gotten a lot of attention.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

Government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for difficult months ahead. But because the trend lines do not look promising, government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for a difficult summer in which thousands of wells could fail. Counties, not the state, regulate new wells.

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