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‘A Tsunami of Human Waste’: Half of South Africa’s Sewage Treatment Works Are Failing, Says Report

Circle of Blue

The report notes, “The effluent quality must comply to 90% [in total] with the authorised limits for the respective categories.”. Five of the 22 Green Drop award winners fall into the NMR category, meaning they are exempt from certain effluent quality indicators. It scored an average of 37% for chemical compliance. Something is fishy.

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Analysis: Green jobs take off in China

A Greener Life

in 2015 to 13.3% The bump may be linked to China’s commitment, made in September 2020, to reach carbon neutrality before 2060. Even the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement had only a small impact on employment. The biggest employer among these is emissions management consulting, followed by emissions auditing.

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OFAC’s Settlement With Airbnb Payments Highlights Risks for Companies, Financial Institutions Doing Business in Cuba and Other US-Sanctioned Jurisdictions

Arnold Porter

For example, in 2015 and 2016, the US eased restrictions on travel, remittances, trade, and the telecommunications and financial services sectors.[[N:Congressional The CACR permits travel-related transactions in connection with only 12 categories of travel[[N: 31 C.F.R. For example, travel to Cuba was not as open as commonly believed.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

Odds and ends: EPA says it will reconsider a 2020 Trump regulation known as the Major MACT to Area, or MM2A, rule. It changed long-time agency policy to allow major sources of pollution to reclassify as area sources, a category with fewer regulatory requirements, once their emissions fell below a certain threshold. 21, 2020 ).

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The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

The plaintiffs argued that there was “no longer a viable dispute” that the organization lacked standing because the individual member had become pregnant in or around December 2020 and feared “the very sort of neurodevelopmental harm that was the focus of Plaintiffs’ trial evidence.” Wheeler, 2020 U.S.

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DOJ Defeats Motion to Dismiss in Precedent-Setting Criminal Wage-Fixing Case

Arnold Porter

N:In re High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation 2015 WL 5159441 (N.D. 2, 2015).]] The Jindal indictment in December 2020 was the first criminal antitrust charge targeting labor markets, but it was quickly followed by others. In October 2016, the DOJ and FTC released their Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals.

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The Chemical Compound—December 2021

Arnold Porter

EPA Revised Mercury Inventory Reporting Rule in Response to 2020 Second Circuit Decision. 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:Asbestos Disease Awareness Org. Regan, No. 6, 2021).]]

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