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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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ESA Policy News: October 24, 2022

ESA

ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. The decision means that NSF opts not to rebuild the telescope dish at the Arecibo Observatory, which was destroyed in late 2020. from 12,549 in 2020 to 11,814 in 2021.

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Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. Justice Alito has displayed similar cynicism about water protection.

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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 9.15.21

PA Environment Daily

7 [PaEN] -- Patch: Major Extension Of Chester Valley Trail To Link To Schuylkill River Trail -- WITF Smart Talk 9:00 a.m.:

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

Preliminary 2020 TRI Dataset Shows “Seemingly Limited” Scope for PFAS Reporting. EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 requires EPA to promulgate this rule by January 1, 2023.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The district court scheduled a hearing for April 16, 2020 to consider the defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer those cases. 4, 2020); California v. United States , No. 18-36082 (9th Cir. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Union of Concerned Scientists v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , Nos. 19-1230 et al. Chao , No.

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