Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Now comes the court’s crippling of the most important federal weapon available to avoid catastrophic climate change and its associated killing of tens of thousands of Americans every year with fossil fuel air pollution. When it comes to environmental hazards, air pollution is by far the most common, with 90 percent of the world’s 2.2

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

et al. ) This blog post explores how the citizens in Kobe, a city in west Japan, attempted to stop the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants through administrative and civil law actions. Kobe Civil Case) In September 2018, a group of 40 citizens sued Kobe Steel Ltd., Kobe Steel Ltd., Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. Just a year later, however, the industry encountered a potentially major obstacle: A study conducted by the government’s National Air Pollution Control Administration found a link between outdoor NO2 exposure and childhood respiratory problems.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Mary Nichols speaks at an Emmett Institute symposium in 2018. Both developments are good news for local air quality and the climate – and a reminder of California’s important national role in curbing pollution from transportation, the country’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Photo credit: Todd Cheney.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

but nothing has been done [ Read more here ] Frustration in the ability of state law to prevent damage caused by pipeline construction related to the Mariner East Pipeline can be illustrated by a 2018 quote from Republican Sen. million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. Wolf [ Read more here.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. 6 was signed into law by Ohio Gov. Even if you don’t live in Ohio, you may have heard about H.B. In addition, FirstEnergy—owner of the two uneconomic nuclear power plants H.B.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Civil law cases. Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants. In September 2018, in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Kobe Steel Ltd., Administrative complaints.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2023

EPA is now tasked with implementing large portions of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 in addition to fulfilling its usual responsibilities, while still stretched thin after losing more than 1,200 scientists and policy experts who left the agency during the Trump years.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Lee Highlights PA’s Abandoned, Unplugged Conventional Oil & Gas Well Problem -- Times Leader: Ohio Attorney General Charges PA Company Austin Master Services With Storing Excessive Quantities Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater, Threatening Ohio River -- The Energy Age Blog: Fracking Cecil Township In Washington County -- Environmental Health (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2022

Every EV on the road reduces the amount of air pollution coming from tailpipes, which makes for cleaner air and a healthier environment.” Since 2018 DEP has installed more 1,500 plugs, with another 500 in development, through the Driving PA Forward program.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When efforts by county officials to resolve the dispute informally with LADWP failed, the County sued, arguing that LADWP’s unilateral action violates California’s most iconic environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Earlier this year, a trial court agreed, ruling in the County’s favor.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released. These air pollutants include such things as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene. “I Read more here ] “Every day, Pennsylvania residents’ health and safety are at unnecessary risk due to outdated laws.” “To

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A 2018 federal analysis said the cancer risk from ethylene oxide emitted from a Sterigenics medical sterilization plant there constituted a “public health hazard.” You got elderly people here and some people at jobs making barely more than $1,000 a month (Tennessee has no minimum wage law , putting many wage earners below the $7.25

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. or if the public agency failed to give the notice required by law.” Existing Facilities Exemption Did Not Apply As A Matter of Law. Factual/Procedural Background. Applying the holding of Tomlinson v.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

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. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Finally, the chance of being born prematurely was not specifically associated with unconventional natural gas development, but high levels of particulate air pollution from any source were associated with being born prematurely, consistent with previous studies from other researchers.” Click Here to learn more.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Law Columbia

MAY 9, 2024

How the court addressed gendered vulnerability In its judgment, the ECtHR provides a detailed overview of the evidence and law on the differentiated impacts of climate change. The applicants produced evidence to show that “overall, women aged above 75 (such as applicants nos. Similarly, General Recommendation No.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million in 2013.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Related Articles - Health/Environmental Impacts: -- Presentations Now Available From Shale Gas & Public Health Conference In Nov. Hosted By PA League Of Women Voters & University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health [PaEN] -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

The program would clearly provide taxpayer funding to support pipelines like Energy Transfer/Sunoco’s Mariner East Pipeline that resulted in record penalties from DEP and the PUC and Energy Transfer’s Revolution Pipeline that exploded in Beaver County in 2018 right after it entered service and also penalized record amounts. Read more here.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

None of that means climate change isn’t, and won’t continue to be, a factor in global health, particularly if action to prevent it also reduces air pollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants. For example, the Green New Deal proposed by Rep.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 4, 2023

The American Lawn and De-Colonizing the Permaculture Movement By Abigail Bailey , Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 4, 2023 Many Americans consider lawns synonymous with success, comfort, and community. (1) 31, 2018) [link] Id. 1) They have often become ubiquitous, perhaps without due consideration. (2)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Wolf signed into law House Bill 1059 (Hickernell-R-Lancaster) that provides $106.6 Executive Director and Chief Counsel of Clean Air Council , issued the following statement: “We knew HB1059 would become law once it was presented to Gov. On November 3, Gov. Read more here. Reaction Joseph Otis Minott, Esq.,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million in 2013.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The issues on appeal were limited to the adequacy of certain aspects of the project EIR’s analyses of GHGs and criteria air pollutants. County of Fresno (2018) 6 Cal.8 8 th 502, why it was not feasible to correlate the level of the project’s air emissions to specific human health impacts from the project.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 13, 2021

It would add millions of tonnes of carbon pollution and endanger the health of nearby communities with increased air pollution. It’s even died once before, only to be raised from the dead in 2018 by Premier Ford’s government. Ontarians say No to the proposed Highway 413.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 16, 2019

In 2018, a host of lawsuits wound their way through the courts seeking an answer, including several from localities and states alleging the responsibility of fossil fuel companies. But what actions does the law require these facilities to take on their own to prepare for climate change and should those requirements be set higher?

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Ministry of the Environment appealed on points of law to the Supreme Administrative Court. The cities argued that the regulation would prevent them from imposing restrictions on the circulation of passenger vehicles in relation to their air pollutant emissions. See a detailed analysis of the decision here.).

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million in 2013.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That is true but we can stop stupid legislation from becoming law. Shapiro: We Need Stronger Laws To Deal With The ‘Corporate Greed’ That Let Oil & Gas Operators Get Away With Abandoning Wells For Far Too Long [PaEN] -- 3 Days That Shook Washington County: Natural Gas Plant Explosion; Pipeline Leak Of 1.1 Read more here.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million in 2013.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2018, the state Department of Health and DEP, with assistance from the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, released a public health evaluation of long-term air sampling data in the vicinity of natural gas operations in Washington County. That is true but we can stop stupid legislation from becoming law.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Between 2018 and 2020 Trump’s EPA removed or decreased protection for wildlife by amending a number of different protections that were in place. “The Affordable Clean Energy rule and the impact of emissions rebound on carbon dioxide and criteria air pollutant emissions.” ” Animal Law. Miller, Carol J.

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