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President Issues Executive Orders Requiring 1 Year Sunset Dates On Existing Regulations Affecting Energy; Identifying Regulations Limiting Competition

PA Environment Daily

However, in some programs like air quality, hazardous waste, safe drinking water, radiation protection, storage tanks and others, Pennsylvania chose to adopt many federal regulations by reference. [So Nuclear Regulatory Commission-- Atomic Energy Act of 1954; Energy Reorganization Act of 1974; and Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.

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Mary Nichols’ new role at the Emmett Institute

Legal Planet

For decades, Mary has been one of the country’s leading contributors to local, state, and federal action on air pollution, first as an attorney for the Center of Law in the Public Interest, where she was one of the first advocates to file a suit under the Clean Air Act. The Mary D.

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What Happens If EPA Revokes the Endangerment Finding?

Legal Planet

’s climate policy: a finding under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The Clean Air Act tasks EPA with regulating “pollutants” from numerous sources. C limit the global community committed to in the Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015. EPA well known.