Enviromental Defense
JUNE 21, 2022
OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – Today, the Senate Energy, Environment and Natural Resources ( ENEV ) Committee completes its review of Bill S-5, a long-awaited government bill to modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Meg Sears, meg@preventcancernow.ca , 613-297-6042.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
In September 2017, Eric Biber and I published a threat assessment after the first 200 days of the Trump Administration. For those who have buried their memories of that time, those were days of shock and despair about the future of environmental protection (and much else). The 2017 threat assessment. Legislation.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision the US Supreme Court handed down in June curtailed strategies EPA can use to slow climate change, but its problematic implications stretch far beyond greenhouse gas reduction. The West Virginia v. The Constitution balances power between three branches of government.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 1, 2022
“It’s been building and building,” said Rob Michaels, an attorney for the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), a Chicago-based legal group, who is working to limit CAFO manure discharges in Ohio and Michigan. It’s now being raised as a political issue. As a legal issue. As a legislative issue.”.
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. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017).
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Environmental Protection Agency surveyed more than 49,000 lakes across the country and found that 30 percent contained toxins produced by the blooms. Last year, the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based research organization, counted 476 harmful blooms in 41 states, five times higher than in 2010. . In 2009, the U.S.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
Regardless, their AGs routinely collaborate on lawsuits and other actions to attack federal environmental safeguards, especially those designed to mitigate the impact of global warming. In 2017, Hurricane Harvey —one of the worst—drenched Houston with more than 4 feet of rain, killed at least 88 people, and caused $125 billion in damage.
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