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PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp., Indiana County

PA Environment Daily

On May 10, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund announced PA General Energy, LLC notified the Department of Environmental Protection that it intends to plug its proposed toxic frack-waste injection well in Grant Township after this Memorial Day. The community’s concerns have been vindicated.

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A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest

Law Columbia

The claim is grounded on the constitutionally recognized right to a healthy environment; fundamental rights such as the right to life, dignity, health, food, and housing; along with several recognized principles of international environmental law and international climate change commitments. In PSB et al. Brazil (on Amazon Fund).

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James Michener’s Chesapeake Bay Was A+

Vermont Law

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently released the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. In 2010, following years of missed deadlines, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jumped into the morass by exercising its power under the Clean Water Act. in Environmental Law.

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Anti-Green-Washing-Soft-Policy: A Comparison of Transnational Eco-Labeling

Vermont Law

Eco-labels are soft-policy examples of progressive environmental policy with a consumer-empowering component. In fact, eco-labels illustrate powerful tools of consumer-driven environmental protection and show that green-washing can be stopped through soft law approaches. International Food Law and Policy.

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Elk River Spill Aftermath: Do We Need New Regulations and From Whom?

Vermont Law

1961 – seeks to close existing loopholes and provide additional federal oversight where current state laws do not apply. On January 9, 2014, a chemical tank at Freedom Industries in Charleston, West Virginia, leaked into the Elk River. At first glance, though, existing laws would seem applicable to the spill at Freedom Industries.

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The Toledo Water Ban: More Money, More Chemicals, More Problems

Vermont Law

Summary: The city of Toledo, Ohio issued a water ban on August 2–3, 2014 after a local treatment plant found unsafe levels of microcystin, a type of harmful algal bloom known to cause health defects and even death when ingested. On August 2, 2014, the city of Toledo, Ohio issued a ban on water that left about 500,000 residents without.

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Blurred Lines: The Importance of Delineation Between Legislative and Non-legislative Rules Under the APA

Vermont Law

. : Not all agency rules have the force of law. In March of 2014, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers issued an “interpretive rule” regarding section 404 of the Clean Water Act, circumventing a notice and comment period. Agricultural Conservation Flexibility Act of 2014.”. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S.