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79 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

[PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Shell’s Flaring At Beaver County Ethane Plant Pushed Company Over Air Permit Limits, Data Shows -- Beaver Times: Regulators Say Shell Exceeded Emissions Cap During Cracker Plant Startup -- New Castle News: DEP: Opening Of Shell’s Western PA ‘Cracker’ Plant Caused Pollutants To Spike -- The Allegheny Front - Reid (..)

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

For example, EPA under the Clean Water Act established 129 “ Priority Pollutants ” in 1976, a list of which is a typical analytical suite that you can order as a package. For example, 2010 soil data are likely to still represent conditions whereas 2010 groundwater data may not. Clean Water Act.

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Policy News: September 27, 2021

ESA

The amount of institution support from universities for research and development has also increased over the past ten years — in 2019, institutional funds constituted more than a quarter of university R&D, up from less than a fifth in 2010. WHO slashes guideline limits on air pollution from fossil fuels – The Guardian.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Army Corps of Engineers’ issue of a Section 404 permit under the Clean Water Act for a new petrochemical plant on the Mississippi River in Louisiana. The modified rule would have applied nationwide, with exceptions for Mexico’s three largest cities, where air pollution is of particular concern.

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The Trump Watch: What Does the New Administration Portend for the Environment?

Vermont Law

We will eliminate the highly invasive “Waters of the US” rule, and scrap the $5 trillion Obama-Clinton Climate Action Plan and the Clean Power Plan and prevent these unilateral plans from increasing monthly electric bills by double-digits without any measurable effect on Earth’s climate. [41]. 19, 2010), [link]. [14].

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