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

PA Environment Daily

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. million; -- FY 2012-13 budget eliminates $11.8 million from DCNR; -- FY 2012-13 budget continues the $102.8 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5

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Fifth Circuit Vacates EPA’s Disapproval of the Texas Flexible Permits Program

The Energy Law Blog

Moreno On August 13, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) disapproval of revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) dealing with the state’s Flexible Permits program. 13, 2012) ( quoting in part from 42 U.S.C. State of Texas v. 7410(a)(1).

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Bay Journal: States/EPA Agree To New Plan For More Nutrient, Sediment Reductions In Chesapeake Bay Watershed To Make Up For Conowingo Dam

PA Environment Daily

By Karl Blankenship, Chesapeake Bay Journal It has taken more than four years, but leaders in the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort say they’ve found a path forward for dealing with the added pollution stemming from Conowingo Dam. But research in 2012 showed that the Conowingo reservoir was essentially already filled.

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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., EPA, Pay $117,000 in Fines (Oct.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. billion to support Indigenous conservation of forests. Richmond is the Presidential Chair in Science and a professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon and has been a member of the National Science Board since 2012.

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