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California Wins Major Clean Air Act/Climate Change Case in D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

Courts) This week California and the Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency won a critically-important environmental lawsuit in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In 2006, President George W. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit Courthouse (credit: U.S.

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The Supreme Court Has Unleashed a New Tool to Hamstring Federal Agencies. Congress Must Act.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision the US Supreme Court handed down in June curtailed strategies EPA can use to slow climate change, but its problematic implications stretch far beyond greenhouse gas reduction. The West Virginia v. Congress shares power with federal agencies. West Virginia v. EPA upends this arrangement.

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Derailing Environmental Protection: Concerns Over Air And Water After The East Palestine, Oh Derailment

Vermont Law

Derailing Environmental Protection: Concerns Over Air and Water After the East Palestine, OH Derailment By Jacob Baverso The Department of Transportation recognizes rail shipment for hazardous materials as the safest method to move such materials over long distances. ppm averaged over 8 hours).

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?

Circle of Blue

Farms collectively are the largest source of nitrate pollution in rivers and groundwater, and the penalty for contaminated water — meaning stricter and more costly standards in order to protect public health — is paid by the people who drink it. Coulter has a particularly keen interest. He was 19 when he died.

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Supreme Court Issues Decision Sharply Limiting Clean Water Act Jurisdiction over Wetlands

E2 Law Blog

A few months later, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) notified the Sacketts that their property contained wetlands and ordered the couple to restore the site or face penalties of up to $40,000 a day. 715 (2006), and embraced ever since in a series of rulemakings and jurisdictional determinations by the EPA and the U.S.