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In Wake of COVID-19, USEPA Allows On-Site Inspections to be Replaced by Off-Site Monitoring Activities

Environment Next

The important take away is that state environmental compliance inspections of regulated facilities will occur as planned in 2020 and 2021, but may be delayed or performed remotely. It remains uncertain exactly how remote inspections will proceed and what techniques may be used to ensure their validity.

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EPA Will Not Require Financial Assurances From Electric Power Sector

Clean Energy Law

Section 108(b) of CERCLA authorizes EPA [i] to develop regulations requiring owners or operators of certain “classes of facilities [to] establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility consistent with the degree and duration of risk associated with the production, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances.”

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Taking a Five-Year-Old to Court: EPA’s First 10 Risk Evaluations Meet the Bench

Acoel

Under the Amendments, between June 2020 and January 2021, EPA finalized the first 10 existing chemical risk assessments. And, while these policy changes unfold, the regulated community that will have to comply with any final regulations is engaging with EPA to scope out what operations under TSCA risk management rules might look like.

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Tack Into The Wind

Acoel

You Are Monsters!”), DMC decided to bring the pending action asserting that it has a constitutional right to untainted groundwater and that the discharges violated EPA regulations. DMC next claims that the regulations of the U.S. We agree that any reading of those regulations would identify multiple regulatory violations.

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

Wesley Muller | Louisiana Illuminator | July 20, 2020 Formosa plans to build on former sugarcane plantations near the Mississippi River, and Rise St. Mitchell | The Advocate | March 9, 2020 State regulators relied on nearly decade-old air pollution data to support their conclusion that Formosa Plastics' $9.4

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

This bill reauthorizes the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 through 2024, directs NOAA to provide block grants to states to support state coral reef management and restoration and establishes a National Coral Reef Management Fellowship Program, among other provisions. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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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. They appear to have a sympathetic ear in Justice Alito. The EPA under both the George W.