Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.

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Government Law Waste Clean Air Act 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Clean Water Act Carbon Dioxide Clean Air Act Climate Change 284

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

President John F Kennedy introduced the Clean Air Act in the US as one of many introduced in developed nations with heavy industry (15). 2018 saw the technical (if not the literal) extinction of the Northern White Rhino when the last male died in an African reserve. Southern White Rhino.

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Conservation Law Natural Resources Fossil Fuels 52

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. EPA’s 2018 rule also suspended the prohibition for companies currently using ozone-depleting substances.

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2020 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

Former EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler suddenly disbanded two advisory panels to the CASAC in 2018. However, the SAB repeatedly came out in opposition to major Trump administration rules, including the ‘Transparency in Science’ rule and the Trump administration revisions to the Waters of the U.S. Nominations are due May 3, 2021.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Even when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate in 2017 and 2018, Congress largely rejected these steep cuts. EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced that the agency will rewrite a Trump administration regulation that limited state’s ability to block pipeline and fossil fuel export facilities under the Clean Water Act.

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2021 Clean Air Act Fossil Fuels 2026 52