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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

Circle of Blue

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law. You have to get the stakeholders to the table under the compulsion of law. Environmental Protection Agency approved $1.7

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

Not surprisingly, AGA applauded the court decision, calling it a “huge step” toward helping the nation “continue on a path to achieving our energy and environmental goals.” He listed five examples, from 1982 to 2017, when the agency took up the topic, but each time it refrained from issuing a gas stove regulation.

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Judicial Update: The Law Of ‘Constitutional Standing’ Taking Shape in Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

2013), claims under the ERA had very little teeth without a supporting claim of a violation of some other statutory or regulatory provision, and an ERA claim often served as strongly worded bluster without any substance. 23 (2017) (quoting Robinson Township, Washington County v. 2013)) (citing Pa. By Paul Bruder, Jr.,

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EPA’s Power Plant Rule is Not Bold. It’s What’s Required.

Legal Planet

Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. Back in 2013, the first Zero Emission Vehicle Action Plan (ZEV) was released as a roadmap for how to get 1.5 In the year 2023, the U.S. million electric cars in use by 2025.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

I first wrote about ExxonMobil in March 2013 after I saw the company’s then-CEO, Rex Tillerson, on the Charlie Rose talk show, who provided me with fodder for perhaps my favorite of two dozen ExxonMobil-related columns. “We Darren Woods, ExxonMobil CEO from 2017 to the present. We do not support climate denial,” he replied. “We

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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Tried 813 Times To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them; Failed To Report Waste Generated 836 Times Over 2 Years

PA Environment Daily

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.]

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