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Why the New Climate Reg for Coal is a Perfectly Normal EPA Rule

Legal Planet

Is EPA’s new climate rule a sneaky effort to eliminate coal or a valid pollution standard? Some new arguments made by EPA convince me that it’s pursuing a time-tested approach to pollution control. It’s not that EPA is trying to grind down the industry.

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EPA Imposes $2.5 Million Penalty On PA Company For Selling Auto Parts That Avoid Vehicle Pollution Controls

PA Environment Daily

The company’s actions allegedly violated the Clean Air Act’s prohibition on the sale of so-called “defeat devices,” which are designed to “bypass, defeat or render inoperative” a motor vehicle engine’s air pollution control equipment or systems. Aftermarket defeat devices undo this progress and pollute the air we breathe.

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RECLAIMING POLLUTED WATER: CAPACITIVE DESALINATION

Cleannovate

Among the pollutants of concern, metals and dissolved industrial chemicals are significant. Though several treatment strategies have been used before, efficiency of pollutant removal still has a long way to go. Desalination involves the removal of dissolved pollutants from water. TOXIC HEAVY METALS. CONCLUSION.

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Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay

Circle of Blue

The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste. The clear pipes behind him are a testing ground for treatments designed to strip contaminants from the city’s water. Brian Steglitz is the Ann Arbor Public Services Area Administrator.

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Will the Supreme Court Gut the Clean Water Act?

Legal Planet

In their brief, they argue for a two-step test: “Step one: is the wetland inseparably bound up with a “water”—i.e., As the government’s brief points out, under this test a wetland would lose federal protection if someone builds a road or levee across it, or even if a flood leaves a natural berm of soil between the two.

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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Oct. 19 To Hear Report On Radiation Decontamination Of Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Reactors, Waste Sites

PA Environment Daily

Reactor site decommissioning includes Three Mile Island, Peach Bottom Unit 1, Penn State Research Lab, Waltz Mill Test Reactor, Saxton Experimental Facility, Shippingport Atomic Power Station, and the Quehanna Research Reactor.

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

What I didn’t know is that my health was still at risk—from indoor pollution. 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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