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EPA Denied Extension to Promulgate Boiler MACT Rule

The Energy Law Blog

Spencer EPA first issued its Boiler MACT Rule on September 13, 2004. However, these standards were vacated by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after the Court found EPA’s definition of “commercial or industrial waste” conflicted with the language of the Clean Air Act in NRDC v.

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

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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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Montana Federal Court Agreed to Consider Keystone XL-Specific Documents and 2012 Biological Opinion in Challenge to Authorization Under Nationwide Permit. The court also found that the plaintiff’s claim was “frivolous because there is no legal theory on which he can rely.” Williams , No. 19-cv-6855 (E.D.N.Y. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.

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