Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
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.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 1, 2023
The state of Minnesota uses EPA’s ethylene oxide emissions standards, which haven’t been updated since 2006. These standards no longer adequately protect the public. EPA’s own scientists concluded in 2016 that the risk value of ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than previously understood.
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Real Climate
APRIL 2, 2021
and European Clean Air Acts and Amendments of the 1970s ( Mann and Emanuel 2006 ; Dunstone et al. In the North Atlantic, examples of local SST warming mechanisms that can increase Atlantic storm formation rates are: the reduction of sulfate pollution aerosols since the U.S. 2013 ; Sobel et al. Mann, and K.A. Smith, B.B.B.
Law Columbia
MARCH 29, 2024
EPA, as well as state and municipal governments, use the information received from reporting entities to inform the development and implementation of rules and regulations prescribed by the Clean Air Act (CAA). the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Solutions Act).
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
The goal of the Clean Air Act is to achieve national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS), with the primary requirement being protection of public health. As our understanding of the health effects of air pollution has improved, there has been a general trend toward tightening the standards.
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.
The Energy Law Blog
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
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. EPA , 489 F. 3d 1250 (D.C. Johnson , 444 F. 2d 46 (D.D.C.
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