Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY By Christine Paul This blog is a supplement to an original article published by Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 13] Waste management remains problematic even after the laws promulgation.[14] 26 Issue 2. million people.[3]

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. If a carbon tax were politically feasible, there would be a lot to be said in its favor. The problem is that a carbon tax seems out of the question politically. It could be designed to avoid regressive impacts on the poor.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

Less than 10 percent of the world’s plastic waste is recycled. In a welcome reprieve from news coming out of the Supreme Court , here’s an uplifting story from the Golden State: On Thursday, Governor Newsom signed SB 54, a comprehensive piece of legislation aimed at significantly reducing single-use waste.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2024

My organization, the Union of Concerned Scientists, works closely with communities sickened by radiation from nuclear weapons testing, waste, and uranium mining, including those exposed to fallout from the Trinity Test. To pass this bill, we will need much more public awareness and political will than we have had so far.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 1, 2025

Indeed, 93% of the Indian labor force are so-called informal workers, comprising everything from small farmers and vegetable sellers to piece-work stitching and waste recyclers. They have neither employers to provide benefits nor political parties to represent their interests.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 24, 2023

If we had price information for each individual food item, then we could shop in a more intelligent way, buying only what we need, wasting less, and prioritizing the more affordable items. We cannot afford to waste that water. Imagine our sticker shock when we see the tally. But it is coming.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The directive aims to reduce waste and bolster the repair sector. Davies , Michael D. Green , and James Bee On 2 February 2024, the European Parliament (Parliament) and European Council (Council) reached a provisional deal on a directive promoting the repair of broken or defective goods, known as the Right to Repair Directive.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 11, 2022

Around the world, supply chains are under stress – from pandemic shutdowns, labor shortages, political crises, and more – which means more food is at risk of going to waste. Mar 22, 2022, noon CDTRegister here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee holds a hearing on waste to fuels. House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Resolution 565 (Pielli-D-Chester) directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to do a study on wil native terrestrial invertebrate management ( sponsor summary ).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee holds a hearing on waste to fuels. House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Resolution 565 (Pielli-D-Chester) directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to do a study on wil native terrestrial invertebrate management ( sponsor summary ).

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Circle of Blue

JULY 6, 2021

All the things that go down the drain and end up at the waste water treatment plant are not removed there. All the things that go down the drain and end up at the waste water treatment plant are not removed there. That’s something political leaders have not been willing to do. Photo Lester Graham. It’s a soup of chemicals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2022

National media coverage by Time magazine and National Geographic helped shine a light on the injustices of chemical waste disposal. In 1987, a blistering report called Toxic Waste and Race exposed massive disparities in environmental degradation and pollution in minority and low-income communities. Building on the movement.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Edwards was also a key player in the Mount Polley tailings dam disaster of 2014 , where Imperial Metals, of which he is a controlling shareholder, experienced a catastrophic breach to one of its tailings ponds that released billions of liters of toxic waste into nearby waterways. The province and taxpayers of B.C.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 31, 2023

The conference, however, was constrained by an agreement that no political declaration would be made. In these commitments and in the sessions and side events, the topics were abundant — data gathering, political will, partnerships, conflict, corporate stewardship — but major themes stood out. Time will tell.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

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. There is no time to waste.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 25, 2021

The federal government’s support for carbon capture projects at coal-fired power plants may be politically necessary (see Sen. Read the full story from IEEFA. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.), but it is environmentally and fiscally misguided.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 18, 2024

York1 Environmental Solutions is proposing a dump site that could result in up to 700 dump trucks, filled with construction and demolition waste, rolling through the small town of Dresden, Ontario every single day. This proposed landfill continues a trend of making rural Ontario a convenient dumping ground for urban communities.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Social and political circumstances in Syria may have aided the outbreak. It is expensive, though, and generates a waste brine that requires disposal. That is the number of cholera cases recorded in Syria from the end of August through the first week of October, in an outbreak that now spans the country.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

At CLEE, we are doing quite a bit of work to promote reduction of methane emissions from all sectors (agriculture (livestock and rice), energy (oil & gas and coal), waste (landfills and sewage)). animal stomachs, shale gas formations, piles of food waste). (Here’s Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 ). C of warming by 2050.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

And special measures to dispose of the toxic waste product costs $220 million, though not all of those costs are strictly related to algae. And political power with it. Just lack of political capital. On average, m onitoring the lake for toxins costs Western Lake Erie treatment plants about $21 million per year.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 26, 2022

billion to the Rural Utilities Service for loans to rural areas for water and waste disposal infrastructure. A water conveyance through or around the delta has been a point of conflict in state water politics since the 1970s. 368 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. billion for the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 18, 2022

In Context: Desalination Has a Waste Problem. Australia Elections: Recent disasters like floods and wildfires are putting climate-conscious political candidates in the spotlight as Australia gears up for Election Day on Saturday. This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers. On the Radar.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 26, 2022

The waste problem we face today is many orders of magnitude greater than the one that led to the Great Stink of London. Political leaders may wish to hold their noses, but they will soon find there is nowhere to hide

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

One of Iraq’s leading environmentalists says the legal threat is a distraction from Iraq’s own political mismanagement of water. He said Iraq should focus its efforts on mending antiquated irrigation systems and preventing water waste. In an interview with Rudaw news service, Azzam Alwash called the potential lawsuit “nothing but PR.”

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 28, 2023

The UN Water Conference, the first such event in 46 years, was billed as a marquee attraction, a chance to corral public and political attention and train it on the global challenges of too much water, too little water, and water that is too polluted.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 30, 2021

. ——————————————– In Canada, nuclear industry officials are surveying an area near Lake Huron as a potential underground storage site for nuclear waste. The project is projected to cost $23 billion and to take 40 years to complete.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

However, political shifts and implementation challenges have slowed that momentum. Longstanding investments in existing supply chains can become obsolete as political winds shift. They also reduce waste and inefficiencies strategies that safeguard operations and protect employees, customers, and communities during crises.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Imagine cutting waste and energy consumption all in one go! By building components off-site, prefabrication can minimize waste and energy consumption during construction. In glass furnaces and oil refineries, dynamic optimization can prevent wasted energy and lower emissions, making industry leaner and greener.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Basically, I go back to my freshman year geopolitics class from college and the professor who really got us thinking about political geography, but the layers of geography. Political geography of borders and so on, in a complex interplay. Then there’s politics, civil wars, conflicts and so forth. This is great.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2025

In addition, thirty volunteers continued the cleanup efforts, collecting 168 bags of litter, abandoned electronic devices and appliances, and over 300 political signs, which were recycled through an initiative started by Keep Chester County Beautiful , an affiliate of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 4, 2022

The political reality, however, is altogether different, according to Michael Pearce, an attorney with Gammage and Burnham who has more than three decades of experience in Arizona water law and policy. That water nurtures about 470,000 acres of alfalfa, Bermuda grass, Sudan grass, sugar beets, onions, lettuce, and other crops.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

While science is thought of by many of our peers as “objective” and “non-political,” it is important for us to see that science has been (and still is) used to perpetuate injustice and harm to Black communities throughout American history.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

On May 10, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund announced PA General Energy, LLC notified the Department of Environmental Protection that it intends to plug its proposed toxic frack-waste injection well in Grant Township after this Memorial Day. Grant Township has been fighting to keep out this frack-waste injection well since 2013.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 12, 2023

China’s ban on accepting most plastic waste may have led to a burning stockpile in eastern Indiana that sent black smoke billowing into the air—and local residents scrambling to safety.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine – Well before Afghanistan’s political upheaval this summer, drought was pushing the country to the brink of a food crisis. At least one state is turning to other pots of money to help residents with overdue water bills. ON THE RADAR.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In a bid to reduce waste, a proposed regulation would require phones and other small electronics to switch to USB-C. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Environment, Law, and History

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

H-Environment recently posted a review by Jay David Miller of Erin Drew's The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century (U. Virginia Press, 2021).

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