Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” The same suppression and disinformation kept government regulators at bay for decades.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2006 AB 32. 2006 AB 32. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. 2002 SB1078. AB 1493 (Pavley Act). states and even internationally.
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Greenbuilding Law
DECEMBER 11, 2022
The statute explicitly requires the State to reduce statewide GHG emissions by 60% from 2006 levels by 2031, a near term target unmatched by any other state.”. Many regulations will have to be promulgated to make all of this happen. apparently the State is leaning toward site EUI. That Alternative Compliance Fee (i.e.,
Enviromental Defense
JANUARY 26, 2024
Developing the Pathways Alliance project is currently projected to cost over $16 billion dollars , and Pathways Alliance CEOs like Pourbaix are insisting that governments should cover most of it – even as these companies are making record profits. Both were eventually rejected by governments. Sometimes the industry tells on itself.
Law and Environment
MAY 31, 2023
715 (2006), which interpreted covered “waters” in the CWA to include “only those relatively permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of water forming geographical features that are described in ordinary parlance as streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes.” (Internal quotation marks and bracket omitted.) United States , 547 U.S.
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. There are two ways that government agencies can work to reduce toxic air emissions, through regulations or through voluntary pollution reduction measures. And, as I’ll try to show, these two subjects have a lot in common.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 26, 2022
In an attempt to alleviate decades worth of environmental harms, the Finnish government has begun efforts to restore parts of the country’s forests and waterways, the Guardian reports. In 2006, the Court defined a wetland as any body of water which has a “significant nexus” to a waterway. 139 CONCEALED DEATHS.
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