A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers. A technician at Yonker Environmental Protection Company in Hunan takes soil samples collected during the 2016 project to be analysed.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. New Jersey Appellate Court Affirmed State Authority to Take Easements for Coastal Protection Projects. FEATURED CASE.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In May 2021, Canada listed plastic manufactured items as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), consistent with previously announced plans for a ban on common harmful and unnecessary plastic items.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In contrast, the state Department of Environmental Protection is lining up a batch of 500 wells to plug with just the first $25 million infusion of federal money from the U.S. Between 1987 and 2015, stray methane gas from abandoned wells was known to contaminate 55 public or private water supplies, according to the DEP.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

And since 2015, they have claimed that their company supports the goals of the Paris climate agreement, which was brokered that year. (Photo: Pool/Getty Images) The history of that lie bears retelling. ExxonMobil wants to be seen as a good corporate citizen. Previously, its reports included grants of $5,000 or more.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Trump is out of office, but he left behind a 6-3 conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The developing science of climatology with its understanding of the need for chemistry made scientists concerned for the future on seeing masses amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere (8) , but also (as it was previously) regarding trees as a resource and the potential for depletion.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Written Testimony The Department of Environmental Protection provided written testimony only. That’s why waste storage tanks have to be vented and why many have tank lids that are open all the time to let the fumes vent to the atmosphere. more than in 2015. A video of the hearing will be posted on Sen. Muth’s website.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”). By Romany Webb.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and finalizing the final Affordable Clean Energy rule in its place. On July 26, 2019, a Massachusetts state court upheld a Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) decision authorizing expansion of a landfill in the Town of Saugus.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Despite clear recommendations from its own science advisors, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced over the summer that it will delay its scheduled process to consider strengthening public health standards for ground-level ozone pollution.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A study based on satellite data revealed that the number of people living in floodplains grew by 58 million to 86 million between 2000 and 2015. “We Indigenous groups across the continents put themselves at the front lines of environmental protection, often at great personal and community risk. Brett Walton.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for instance, has been allocated over $1.5 Methane is a much more potent warming agent than carbon dioxide, trapping 87 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere in the first twenty years after it is released (on a pound-for-pound basis).

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 2015), [link]. [16]

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Key among those measures are new emissions controls proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under section 111 of the Clean Air Act. Many oil wells lack systems to capture natural gas, which is instead vented to the atmosphere. This is not the first time EPA has used section 111 to control methane.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

According to its Oil and Gas Program Compliance Database , the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued 315 Notices of Violation (NOV) just for the first three-quarters of 2022. Leaking methane is a powerful greenhouse gas 86 times more potent than CO2 in its first twenty years in the atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). 34-2015-80002005 (Cal. It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Environmental Protection Authority (New South Wales Land and Environment Court).

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

Biden could, they say, reinstate a relatively popular ban that was in place for years until 2015 by unilaterally banning all crude oil exports. has already experienced 12 separate one-billion-dollar climate-related disasters this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stripping federal protections from countless wetlands and leaving these critical ecosystems exposed to devastating pollution and other damage from agriculture and other industries. 2023 was a rough year for clean water.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

My name is Michael Shellenberger, and I am Founder and President of Environmental Progress, an independent and nonprofit research organization. [1] American farmers are world leaders in innovation, productivity, and environmental protection. This is due to both rising agricultural productivity and environmental conservation. [32]

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other governmental entities to allow continued enforcement of environmental laws related to ongoing mining operations. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. Circuit Stayed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Truck Trailers. Center for Biological Diversity v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2022

Meanwhile, in the background, a coalition of conservative states, in concert with the fossil fuel industry, recently presented oral arguments to the Supreme Court asking the justices to choke the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate global warming gases.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

Lawmakers give the Environmental Protection Agency a 3.5% The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $5.88 under the Clean Water Act to the pre-2015 standard. The Biden administration is developing its own rule but reverted to pre-2015 Clean Water Act regulations in the interim. increase to $3.26

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ESA

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency’s topline budget is $10.13 Appropriators increase the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget $6.2 The rule largely restores the pre-2015 status quo. The US Forest Service’s budget for activities other than wildfire management is increased by $222 million.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. She also voiced support for the Obama administration’s 2015 sage grouse conservation plans and the Trump administration’s plans to remove wild horses and burros from public lands. 1816 & H.R.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In June 2021, EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced that that agency will repeal the Trump administration’s 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which replaced the Obama administration’s 2015 Clean Water Rule. The National Park Service receives $3.463 billion, a 9.3%

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Trump, the fact that each month is warmer than the same month the previous year has nothing to do with the adverse consequences associated with spewing obscene amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. into the atmosphere each year, with no end in sight. so tweeted Mr. Trump on August 18, 2015. (#@realDonaldTrump). [30].

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

The Ecological Society of America, representing 8,000 research ecologists and environmental scientists, is greatly concerned about the recent United States Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. US Environmental Protection Agency case. billion for the Environmental Protection Agency, a 20% increase.

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ESA

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Commerce, Justice and Science subcommittee drafts the bill that funds the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, among other agencies. Chuck Fleishman (R-TN) is the chair of the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee. The Trump administration amended the plans in 2019.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $1.24 billion to spend through fiscal year (FY) 2026 on weather, ocean and climate research and forecasting while the Environmental Protection Agency receives $264 million for climate change research and development. NSF also receives $3.43

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Environmental Protection Agency. This includes $936 million for a new Accelerating Environmental and Economic Justice initiative. Global Change Research Program since 2015. Overall, President Biden requested $6.9 billion for NOAA, a $1.4 Biden requests $11.2

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