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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

SB 6 and AB 2011 enable residential development in zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use. While the Governor’s veto message asserted that additional legislative direction was not necessary, communities in the Valley continue to suffer from serious air pollution. Download as PDF.

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Climate Change Threatens Already Poor Air Quality in California’s Central Valley

Union of Concerned Scientists

California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.

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U.S. House Passes Bill Requiring EPA to Regulate PFAS Compounds

Environment Next

On July 21, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the PFAS Action Act of 2011 , requiring EPA to establish nationwide drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS, two of the thousands of PFAS compounds. Senate, where an earlier version of the bill had passed in January 2021, but ultimately died.

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Machine Learning and the Future of Sustainability Science

HumanNature

At the same time, we’d like for it to produce less soot, and thus, less air pollution. 2011): 1239-1249. 2021): 133-145. Since we want our new biofuel to be a drop-in replacement for diesel, it needs to have characteristics similar to diesel – for example, it should have similar reactivity and viscosity characteristics.

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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

Corp Watch

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. charges involving a 2011 pipeline rupture that spilled oil into the Yellowstone River in Montana.

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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors

Corp Watch

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. charges involving a 2011 pipeline rupture that spilled oil into the Yellowstone River in Montana.

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DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Fresh Water May Have Led To ‘Inadvertently’ Using Contaminated Water For Fracking Gas Wells In Washington County

PA Environment Daily

The shale gas wells were drilled and fracked between September 2011 and August 2012. Johnson said DEP’s letter of determination does not say whether DEP directly asked if Chevron used PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ at the drilling site in 2011-2012, but the Department instead stated it relied on a “review of documents related to the well site.”

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