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Catch 22 at the Supreme Court

Legal Planet

In 2011, in AEP v. Section 111 of the Act directs the EPA Administrator to list “categories of stationary sources” that “in [her] judgment. Once EPA lists a category, the agency must establish standards of performance for emission of pollutants from new or modified sources within that category. 410 (2011).

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Drought, The Everything Disaster

Circle of Blue

Nearly 89 percent of nine western states are in some form of drought, and more than a quarter of the region is considered in exceptional drought, the worst category in the U.S. He was the director of the National Integrated Drought Information System, a drought monitoring and planning collaborative set up by Congress. Drought Monitor.

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Michigan’s ‘Very Big Opportunity’ in Infrastructure Windfall

Circle of Blue

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, approved by Congress and signed by President Biden last November, provides roughly $50 billion over five years for water and sewer systems, the largest federal infusion in the sector in a half century. Congress established the Clean Water SRF in 1987. The culture change came just in time.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. The price of solar panels and wind turbines has declined 75 percent and 25 percent, respectively, since 2011. [5]

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

In June 2021, EPA published a proposed rule under TSCA Section 8(a)(7) that the Agency will use to collect information on a one-time basis from manufacturers (including importers) of PFAS in any year since 2011.[[N: EPA sought the following categories of information: (1) types of applications or processes that employ 1-BP (e.g.,

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The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

” The Fifth Circuit concluded that the consideration of costs was not required for the prohibition on products containing the other four phthalates because Congress had not added a “reasonable” qualifier to that standard. The Senate passed the PFAS Act in the 116th Congress ( S. Regulatory Developments. 14560 (Mar.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The Court was not persuaded by arguments that exceptions to the general bar on appellate review of remand orders should be construed narrowly or that Congress would have expressly directed that appellate courts should review all aspects of remand orders had that been its intention. Justice Alito did not take part in the case.

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