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Minnesota Can Do More to Protect People from Ethylene Oxide Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

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.

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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule: Interrogating Preemption and Coherence with Other Domestic Regimes

Law Columbia

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is still awaiting funding to craft the regulations needed to implement the laws, though it has indicated it will begin the process soon. However, the existence of federal regulations on the same subject as a state law does not mean that state law is necessarily preempted. See, e.g. , Rice v.

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In Celebration Of The Many Contributions Of John Dawes To Protecting And Restoring PA’s Environment, Foundations Create The R. John Dawes Clean Water Fund

PA Environment Daily

She has also held positions at Sierra Club, Trout Unlimited, and Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and holds a master’s degree in environmental pollution control. Dawes says, “All of this work taught me that a group of citizens can change national public policy for the benefit of all.”

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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. This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. But the fact that the facility exists, Corrigan said, is an indictment of the state’s pollution-control measures. “It’s

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Starting with a Messy Slate: The Role of Environmental Law in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake

Vermont Law

Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and economic infrastructure. Deforestation, air and water pollution, and lack of sanitation systems have led to public health problems and resource scarcity.

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $241,580,318 (July 7, 2023) Number of Records 118 Books Agrifood Atlas: Facts and figures about the corporations that control what we eat by Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation & Friends of the Earth Europe (2017) Citizen Coke by Bartow J.

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

Ohio Environmental Law

The Clean Water Act prohibits the discharge of pollutants into “navigable waters” without a permit authorizing the discharge. Following the 2006 decision by the U.S. F) defines “isolated wetlands” as “a wetland that is not subject to regulation under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act” (i.e.,