Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
From 1960 to 2005, coal use grew more or less steadily by 18 million tons per year. The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. electricity to about one-fifth today.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Occasional opposition to local pollution problems and the casual animal cruelty that characterize conventional US dairy, hog, and poultry production did little to alter practices that are embedded in the rural landscape. EPA is weak on regulations on CAFOs,” said Emily Miller, a Food & Water Watch attorney. That may be changing.
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Legal Planet
JANUARY 25, 2022
EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The case involves a group of challenges to EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing stationary sources under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a monumental piece of environmental and public health legislation.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 14, 2023
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. EPA Supreme Court decision in 2022.
Acoel
JUNE 29, 2022
The 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) provided smaller but significant air quality improvements following its implementation in 2010. Exceedances of the 8-hour ozone NAAQS are predicted to decline in nonattainment areas by 14 percent with CAIR controls in place in 2015. EPA CAIR Modeling Analysis, March 2005. Eugene M.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Six kids in town besides Jacob were diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. But the fact that the facility exists, Corrigan said, is an indictment of the state’s pollution-control measures. “It’s
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
The state and the county, with farmer endorsement, approved new regulations that require nutrient management plans for farms that produce more than 100,000 gallons of liquid manure, or 350 tons of solid manure annually. Farmers who don’t agree to adopt the new pollution-control measures would lose the insurance subsidy. .
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