Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Our new report outlines a framework for building a more responsible battery supply chain, drawing insights from the European Unions Sustainable Batteries Regulation (2023). Refining processes , particularly in countries with lax environmental regulations, emit greenhouse gases and toxic waste.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. In every other industry, point source permits require polluters to treat their wastes to dramatically reduce contaminants. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue. Photographs by J.
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Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
We progress despite regular cries of impending doom from regulated industries and their enablers. More than two-thirds of our diesel comes from renewable, non-petroleum resources, and many California refineries are shifting from refining fossil fuels to refining waste oils and other renewable feedstocks. But it’s never easy.
Yale E360
AUGUST 1, 2023
When China banned plastic waste imports in 2018, exporters in wealthy countries targeted other developing nations. Faced with an unending stream of unrecyclable waste, Indonesia has tightened its regulations and has begun to make progress in stemming the plastics flow. Read more on E360 →
Legal Planet
MARCH 27, 2023
EPA isn’t a college and doesn’t regulate with the goal of increasing diversity. Under current law, if a regulation refers to race in any way, the government must show that the regulation is narrowly tailored to a compelling government interest. Download as PDF The post When Is It Legal to Consider Race in Regulating?
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Interestingly and accurately, the OIRA started its report with the simple sentiment that public participation makes better regulations. This is true, and rules and regulations can only be better when all of this work on the part of communities is genuinely considered and incorporated.
Enviromental Defense
JANUARY 23, 2025
It is a victory that Imperial Oil will have to face the courts for releasing millions of litres of toxic waste into the environment. It is not the job of impacted communities and their allies to police the regulator. trillion litres of waste, covering an area more than 2.6 No public updates have been issued since.
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