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FRESH, October 4, 2022: Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Emerges as Political Flashpoint

Circle of Blue

Wisconsin faces difficulty enforcing pollution control from small farms. The post FRESH, October 4, 2022: Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Emerges as Political Flashpoint appeared first on Circle of Blue. October 18, 2022: EPA’s Debra Shore at the Great Lakes Conference — register. Other News.

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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. Politically, what has happened to coal jobs may be more salient. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. But this could only have a contributing factor.

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Happy 50th Anniversary, Federal Clean Water Act

Legal Planet

The political movement culminating in the passage of the Clean Water Act was triggered by several environmental disasters in the late 1960’s that shocked Americans and motivated them to take action to clean up the nation’s heavily-polluted waterways.

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EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Are Critical—and Complex. Here’s What to Know, and What to Watch.

Union of Concerned Scientists

In effect, the Court argued that for decisions of “such economic and political significance”—here, shifting electricity generation from one resource to another—there must be clear congressional authorization. In issuing its decision , the majority relied upon a new-to-the-Supreme-Court framework called the “major questions doctrine.”

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California Legislators Call for More Stringent Requirements for Oil and Gas

Legal Planet

Neighborhood oil and gas extraction poses serious public health and environmental risks to communities across California – and campaigns by local advocates and political leaders over the last decade have pressed state agencies and local governments, including the City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County , to better protect those at risk.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 8.31.23

PA Environment Daily

- By Bruce Ledewitz, Duquesne School Of Law -- AP: Municipalities Say An Adverse Ruling On A Case Now Before PA Supreme Court On Stormwater Fees Could Drain Them Financially -- Reading Eagle: $260,000 In Grants Awarded To 4 Schuylkill River Watershed Improvement Projects In Berks County -- Schuylkill River Greenways Hosts Sept.

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PA Conservation Heritage Project Profile: Paul O. Swartz - From Photojournalist To Susquehanna River Basin Commission

PA Environment Daily

Following his service with DER, Paul worked as a Field Representative for the Joint Air & Water Pollution Control Conservation Committee (JLCC) for the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1981/1982. (In In 1969 Ralph W.