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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million; -- FY 2012-13 budget eliminates $11.8 million from DCNR; -- FY 2012-13 budget continues the $102.8 million; -- FY 2012-13 budget eliminates $11.8 million from DCNR; -- FY 2012-13 budget continues the $102.8 million in across-the-board cuts to help fill gaps caused by reduced federal Medicaid appropriations-- $2.4

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990. 16 of 22 counties) of the 2015 Base Case nonattainment counties are projected to be reduced by 1 ppb or more as a result of CAIR. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. Ozone concentrations in over 70 percent (i.e., EPA CAIR Modeling Analysis, March 2005.

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The Problems with the SCOTUS ‘Good Neighbor’ Arguments

Legal Planet

Herzog (former Emmett/Frankel Fellow at UCLA School of Law 2012-2016) and Sean H. When EPA strengthened the national ozone standard in 2015 based upon updated scientific understanding of ozone’s health harms, it triggered States’ obligation to develop Good Neighbor plans. The Rule is already working to reduce dangerous smog.

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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The Chemical Compound—December 2021

Arnold Porter

EPA inspectors found that the two companies failed to submit timely quadrennial reports regarding their imports of five chemical substances between 2012 and 2015 under the 2016 CDR Rule. N: Memorandum from Director, Pollution Control & Clean Up Directorate, EPA Office of Inspector Gen., 6, 2021).]] 26, 2021).]]

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Ask a Scientist: Top Takeaways from the New EPA Carbon Pollution Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2022, installed wind and solar power more than tripled , according to American Clean Power. In 2012, coal generated 37 percent of US electricity. The report also found that 173 coal plants are scheduled to close by 2030—54 percent of the fleet—and another 55 by 2040. Last year, wind generated 10.2

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The Obama administration finalized a rule in 2015 to enshrine a sweeping definition of protected waterways that included desert streams that flow only after rainfall, and some wetlands far from the larger tributary network. United States. This position oversees the Department of Energy Office of Science. 5345 ), sponsored by Rep. 3, 2021.

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