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Ask a Scientist: EPA Failing to Protect Communities from Cancer-Causing Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to review—and update—its ethylene oxide emissions standards every eight years, but the last time it did so was in 2006. The study looked at cancer diagnoses between 2006 and 2019 and found “significantly greater than expected” cases of lymphocytic leukemia and breast cancer.

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We’re Naming Summer “Danger Season” in the US. Here’s Why.

Union of Concerned Scientists

There’s a long list of disasters in my brain that serve as constant reminders of why I’m fighting for climate action. And in California, since the passage of heat-protection standards for outdoor workers in 2006, heat-related injuries among those workers have declined by about 30%.

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“Yes, San Francisco, There Is A CEQA”: First District Reverses Judgment Upholding City’s Categorical Exemption Determinations For Project To Add Four 90-Foot Tall Light Standards To High School Stadium In Residential Neighborhood

CEQA Developments

2006) 141 Cal.App.4th 2006) 139 Cal.App.4th 4th 1356, 1382), the Court looked to the State Resources Agency’s non-exclusive list and concluded that “[t]he light standards are fundamentally dissimilar from all of the examples.” Monterey Peninsula Water Management Dist. 4th 677, 693-694.). San Lorenzo Valley Unified School Dist.

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Rare Eastern Hellbender Habitat In Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County Harmed By Sediment Plumes From Pipeline Crossings, Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal Construction Projects

PA Environment Daily

And that historically, going back to 2006-2008 in the videos that I took, you can actually see all the spaces down in the rock and you can see the hellbenders down in there, but there's no spaces any longer. It's just simply a category into which they put species that are at risk,” said Dr. Petokas. “So

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Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule and Its Impact on Ohio

Ohio Environmental Law

Following the 2006 decision by the U.S. The NWPR covers four categories of waters: The territorial seas and traditional navigable waters (i.e., Ohio law also protects categories of waters that are not protected under the NWPR. Supreme Court in Rapanos v. federally protected). What waters are federally protected under the NWPR?

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. EPA’s entry in the agenda projects December for a final rule; NHTSA’s entry does not list a date for finalization. The agenda also lists an October 2022 target for finalizing the rule.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

EPA unveiled a proposed rule that would take the Navigable Waters Protection Rule off the books and reinstate long-standing regulations defining which streams and wetlands are subject to federal protection, a category known as “Waters of the U.S.,” or WOTUS. “In United States. 30, 2021 ( nomination period extended ). 29, 2021.

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