2022 Environmental Protection Law Regulations 
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 31, 2024
From cancer-causing food dyes to lung-damaging fiberglass in our furniture, California’s State Legislature and the Governor have enacted legislation this session to protect consumers. Here is a look at a handful of these new laws aimed at increasing health and safety for Californians. The T.A.M.P.O.N.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Groundwater regulation, legal rights to clean water, and spending measures highlight this election cycle. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 26, 2022. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 26, 2022. While state-level decisions this year are about money, local initiatives focus on law and policy.
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Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 13, 2022
The Year in Water, 2022. Sharpening the Shark’s Teeth By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 13, 2022. Spend a few days at a water conference and you’ll hear a favored metaphor for the environmental changes that are unsettling the planet. If climate change is a shark, attendees will say, then water is the shark’s teeth.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Before the amendment takes effect, the Legislature must pass laws that define what types of projects are eligible. Proponents of the amendment hope it will provide a legal tool for environmental protection. Farther west, in southeastern Arizona, groundwater regulation appeared headed to a split decision.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 4, 2022
October 4, 2022. Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. Navigator responds that it has complied with state regulations, which require the company to notify landowners in the pipeline’s path and consider citizen safety when routing the project. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor. This Week’s Watersheds.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 22, 2023
States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” The same suppression and disinformation kept government regulators at bay for decades.
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