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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

Edwards was also a key player in the Mount Polley tailings dam disaster of 2014 , where Imperial Metals, of which he is a controlling shareholder, experienced a catastrophic breach to one of its tailings ponds that released billions of liters of toxic waste into nearby waterways. The province and taxpayers of B.C.

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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

million cubic meters of toxic waste, polluting the Doce River and displacing communities. By implementing sustainable urban policies, promoting waste management innovations, and collaborating on climate resilience projects, the city can set an example of progress for other regions facing similar issues.

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Governors Lead the Fight on Forests and Climate

Legal Planet

As chair of the California Air Resources Board for nearly 20 years, I attended the annual conferences from Bali in 2007 to Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in 2023. While some national political leaders are backing off their climate commitments , these subnational governments know they have to live with increasing fires , floods and deadly heat waves.

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Trump’s Earth Day Purge

Circle of Blue

Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, committed last month to dissolve the agencys scientific research office, reduce the agencys staff by 65 percent, and take 31 actions to kill regulations or programs affecting toxic air emissions and water discharges, climate change, and waste management.

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President Trump Wants Coal Ash in State Hands

Circle of Blue

About 10 percent of the more than 45 billion tons of coal burned in the United States since 1970, most of it for electricity, ends up as coal ash, one of the nation’s largest waste streams. Billions of tons of ash have been scrubbed from air, flushed from the bottom of furnaces and washed and dried from pollution control equipment.

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Trump 2.0, Day One: Considerations for Cities and Community Partners

Law Columbia

Pursuant to the text of Clean Air Act Section 202 , along with a 2007 case entitled Massachusetts v. The phrase EV mandate also jibes with a political antagonism to some electric vehicle tax credits.

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Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY

Vermont Law

Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY By Christine Paul This blog is a supplement to an original article published by Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 13] Waste management remains problematic even after the laws promulgation.[14] 26 Issue 2. million people.[3]