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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017).

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MP committee fails to establish timelines for action on toxic chemicals

Enviromental Defense

ENVI reviewed CEPA in 2017 and recommended amendments to the Act to “update, improve and prescribe timelines for all actions under CEPA” Our joint submission on Bill S-5 reinforced this recommendation. Bill S-5, which seeks to reform CEPA for the first time in more than two decades, is currently being reviewed by ENVI.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 2)

Clean Energy Law

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

µm in diameter, which include our black carbon particles of interest, have been shown to be particularly problematic because they can penetrate deep into the lungs and blood stream and cause cardiovascular and respiratory disease (Pope and Dockery, 2006; Brook et al., link] US Environmental Protection Agency. Black Carbon.”

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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil

Circle of Blue

Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. Environmental Protection Agency. At the maximum, nitrate in Aurora is just below the federal standard, though the town did exceed the 10 parts per million (ppm) threshold in the summer of 2017, registering 11.4 And they are small.

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Rights of Nature: Seeing the Forests and Trees

Vermont Law

In 2006, Tamaqua Borough of Pennsylvania. Although procedural and ethical rules protect lawyers in making good faith arguments for extensions and changes in the law, some courts have viewed the extension of standing to a watershed or nonhuman animal as outside of that realm. passed local law. Pittsburgh followed in 2010, declaring.

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