Legal Planet
APRIL 12, 2024
However, section 209 (b) expressly allows California–and only California–to adopt more stringent and innovative solutions to motor vehicle-based air pollution than the pollution standards applied nationally by EPA. In 2006, President George W. EPA decision.)
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Supreme Court will hear arguments in an animal welfare case from California that could have profound, negative impacts on a host of the Golden State’s environmental laws and policies. Specifically, the trade groups claim that the California law violates so-called “dormant” Commerce Clause principles. Constitution.
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PA Environment Daily
MAY 17, 2024
Acid Mine Drainage remains Pennsylvania's largest source of water pollution, impairing more than 5,500 miles of streams. On December 31, 2023, he retired from the Clean Air Council after serving as the organization's executive director and chief counsel for over 35 years. from Villanova University School of Law.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 19, 2022
With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, he asserted, “Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. In his draft ruling, Alito conferred credibility and salience to British anti-abortion laws of the 17 th and 13 th centuries. Broader implications.
Law Columbia
MARCH 29, 2024
Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Preemption of a state law arises under the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution. See, e.g. , Rice v.
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.
Vermont Law
MAY 2, 2023
The CDC has also updated its toxicological profile and sent out a draft for public comment in January, but this draft eliminates much of the safety concerns printed in the original profile report (and most notably, has had little revision since its publication in 2006, until weeks before the derailment in East Palestine).
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