Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Most election workers are probably like my late mother-in-law. This is, at least in part, fallout from the vilification of election officials and poll workers by Trump and his camp in the immediate wake of losing states he had won in 2016, especially Georgia. percent in Arizona after the 2016-18 election cycle.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 31, 2022

Her background is in labor and employment law. She then found that the government had violated NEPA by failing to take a hard look at the environmental consequences. Regrettably, that’s a correct statement of the law. Apart from this, her main environmental ruling was in a CEQA case. United States (2018).

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 2016), [link]. [6]

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

When California voters legalized cannabis in 2016, a key argument for legalization was that legalization would benefit the environment. If cannabis growers necessarily operated outside the law, then they had little incentive to comply with environmental regulatory standards.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This anticipated spending provides significant opportunities for government contractors. But companies seeking government contracts should be aware that there is a new cop walking this beat. For example, concrete is an essential component of many construction projects, including road and bridge projects managed by government agencies.

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Legal Planet

MAY 29, 2024

This post was originally published on the Law & Political Economy Blog as “How Environmental Law Created a World Awash in Toxic Chemicals.” Indeed, the PFAS disaster points once again to the failure of our laws regulating toxic chemicals, which were intended to avoid just these sorts of problems.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency recently issued draft guidance updating how agencies are to evaluate environmental justice (EJ) concerns when undertaking regulatory actions, entitled “Technical Guidance for Assessing Environmental Justice in Regulatory Analysis” (the “Guidance”). EJ Concerns.”

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. Here are the additions to the U.S. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” How has Paxton responded?

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A Greener Life

APRIL 24, 2024

Winning over voters Biden made the announcement as he addressed a crowd at Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia, to the presence of several key Democratic climate advocates including Bernie Sanders who unsuccessfully ran against Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic Presidential nomination.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 6, 2022

On May 6, Laura Legere of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported the Department of Environmental Protection is re-evaluating the final regulation to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas operations over a 2016 law requiring separate regulations for conventional oil and gas operations. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A wave of frontline resistance is now breaking across the Upper Midwest and around the country as organized campaigns aimed at regulating concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs, are being felt at every level of government, and in state and federal courts. In 2016, the EPA identified phosphorus and nitrogen discharges from U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The Supreme Court sharply limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to slash carbon pollution from power plants. The leadoff articles in the series included a commentary from Lisa Heinzerling , a Georgetown University environmental law professor, who crafted the victorious brief in the 2007 Massachusetts v.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection announced the meetings of the Environmental Quality Board from June through October will be one week earlier than originally scheduled. Environmental Protection Agency, including loss of federal highway funds. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Rose asked Tillerson open-ended questions on a range of subjects, including climate change and national energy policy.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading. Her work explores international and domestic (U.S.)

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency has a collection of rules for emissions from oil and gas drilling sites that states must adopt, or else they will lose billions of possible dollars in federal highway funds. It may be a kind of blackmail, but it’s effective — and it’s the law. And for no reason. Photo: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

The state constitution’s Environmental Rights Amendment is not a gratuitous statement. Rather, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has found, the amendment is an invaluable and enforceable provision that empowers the state government to protect all Pennsylvanians’ right to clean air, water and more.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

An EPA local government advisory committee submits recommendations to the agency for carrying out infrastructure investments. Environmental Protection Agency is taking another swing at defining key concepts that govern Clean Water Act requirements for wastewater utilities. government water policy. The Rundown.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

The state constitution’s Environmental Rights Amendment is not a gratuitous statement. Rather, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has found, the amendment is an invaluable and enforceable provision that empowers the state government to protect all Pennsylvanians’ right to clean air, water and more.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Viewed in context, to address climate change, the federal government has developed monetary estimates on the cost to reduce carbon dioxide as part of assessing the costs and benefits of government actions. The uncertainty in all of this is more like “The Pit and the Pendulum” than federal government policy.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. The statutes do not require direct notice to either the local government or to owners of property along the affected shoreline. House Bill 329 (Renewable Energy Amendments) makes several relatively minor changes to energy laws.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The IRRC had earlier expressed concern there were not separate final regulations for unconventional and conventional oil and gas facilities as required by a 2016 state law (Act 52). Environmental Protection Agency deadline to finalize the regulation, so DEP had to move to the emergency rulemaking procedure.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 20, 2022

TNC was pleased to host a press conference in 2016 when the federal agencies signed an MOU and we’re even more pleased now to see the Task Force get codified in law. TNC was pleased to host a press conference in 2016 when the federal agencies signed an MOU and we’re even more pleased now to see the Task Force get codified in law.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 4, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency intends to reverse a Trump-era decision and reinstate water pollution standards in Washington state from 2016, a move designed to protect people belonging to Native American tribes, who consume more fish than the average person. government water policy. News Briefs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Her neighborhood and adjoining zip codes are home to about 90 facilities listed on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory. A major noncancerous effect of ethylene oxide exposure, according to the federal government, can be “compromised respiratory function.” The county thus far has been passive.

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Vermont Law

JULY 25, 2016

In 2015, the Wyoming Legislature passed two new laws creating criminal and civil causes of action for trespassing to collect resource data. in May, 2015 after Wyoming passed two controversial new trespass laws. data trespass laws. data trespass laws. The Data Trespass Laws Violate the First Amendment. Summary. :

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pam Taylor, a member of Environmentally Concerned Citizens of South Central Michigan, manages one of the country’s largest citizen-led water monitoring programs. Data: National Center For Water Quality Research and Environmental Working Group. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 12, 2024

Historically, special interests have played a long game to take over the government and the judiciary, what WhoWhatWhy contributor Anne Nelson calls the “ Shadow Network ” and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas for the GOP nomination in 2016.) Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) calls “ The Scheme.” Both supported Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2023

The state constitution’s Environmental Rights Amendment is not a gratuitous statement. Rather, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has found, the amendment is an invaluable and enforceable provision that empowers the state government to protect all Pennsylvanians’ right to clean air, water and more.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In September 2022, a Louisiana court revoked the company’s air permits for failing to protect the public from environmental harm. billion complex in St. USA: The Race to Stop a Plastics Plant Scores a Crucial Win Judith Enck & Rebekah Kreshkoff | Scientific American | September 23, 2022 Led by Sharon Lavigne of Rise St.

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Acoel

JANUARY 25, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is laser focused on achieving several “whole-of-government” priorities: addressing climate change, identifying and giving environmental justice greater consideration in decision-making, and following the science wherever it may lead. Since enactment in 2016 of the Frank R.

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Brag

JUNE 17, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). According to Biden’s announcement , Freedhoff has more than 20 years of government experience, most recently as the Minority Director of Oversight for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. in physical chemistry at the University of Rochester.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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. Purging nitrate from groundwater will not be a quick fix. A Standard Under Scrutiny.

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Brag

MAY 27, 2021

B&C ® ), the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health are pleased to present “TSCA Reform - Five Years Later.” Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials. Lead Senior Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund. 9:00 a.m. -

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency fined Koch $30 million in 2000, the largest civil penalty on a company at the time, for over 300 oil spills from company pipelines in Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas including a 12­ mile-long oil slick off the coast of Texas. The fine was $30 million.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

government $265 million plus interest for over-billing on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and in 2010 it was ordered to repay the U.S. These payments included $3 million to the Japanese prime minister and $1.1 million to a Dutch prince. In 2007 Lockheed was ordered to repay the U.S. Air Force and the U.S.

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