Circle of Blue
JUNE 28, 2022
Regulators in New York require utilities to perform climate risk assessments. Canada ’s House of Commons considers a bill addressing environmental racism. Supreme Court could transform federal climate regulation. Wisconsin Adopts PFAS Regulation. The regulation is part of the state’s effort, spearheaded by Gov.
Enviromental Defense
MAY 7, 2024
Environmental protection laws must be enforced in response to incidents like last year’s major spill and leak from Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine. Since 2014, the AER has only collected 71 cents from oil sands companies to pay for cleanup. The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 This is too little, too late. Less than 0.1
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 18, 2024
Last week, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized updated regulations for certain facilities that emit ethylene oxide (EtO), a colorless, cancer-causing gas. For the first time, the government will regulate fugitive or “unintended” emissions and require permanent total enclosure of sterilization operations.
Legal Planet
MAY 11, 2023
Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. Then a coalition of states and environmental groups challenged the denial, and the result was the landmark decision Massachusetts v. In the year 2023, the U.S.
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 2, 2023
Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 13, 2023
On October 13, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has reached a Settlement Agreement with DC Ambler Properties, LLC., who owns the Ambler Asbestos Piles Superfund Site , to pay $500,000 in stipulated penalties to resolve its liability for outstanding violations of a 2014 Consent Order and Agreement (COA).
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 27, 2023
It’s likely our neighborhood was most exposed from the time the neighborhood was developed in 2007 until 2014, when the plants installed scrubbers in their smokestacks. Agency officials told us that EtO is one of the most dangerous chemicals the agency regulates. The sooner they are protected, the better. There is no safe level.
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