2017 Air Pollution Government Regulations 
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods. As you said, there’s a legacy of racism when it comes to siting polluting infrastructure. First, there’s air pollution.
Legal Planet
JULY 29, 2021
They will be working alongside our faculty director (formerly faculty co-director) Ted Parson—an accomplished scholar of environmental governance—as well as me and my colleague Cara Horowitz, shaping the strategic direction of the Emmett Institute. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Between 1992 and 2017, at least 815 farmworker deaths have been attributed to heat. Wildfire smoke containing a variety of air pollutants and particulate matter, especially in the West, has increased the chances that farmworkers will experience adverse health hazards such as asthma and respiratory disease.
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 16, 2023
The Grand Jury Report was released by then Attorney General Shapiro in June 2020 after what he said then was a two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
By Jacob Carter and Martha Kinsella In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey brought Texas rain that just wouldn’t stop. The National Aeronautics and Atmospheric Administration offered to fly an airplane equipped with the world’s most sophisticated air samplers over Houston to monitor air pollution.
Corp Watch
MARCH 8, 2024
Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.
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