Environment, Law, and History
MAY 12, 2022
Among other things, it demonstrates that environmental regulation is often driven politically by pressure from businesses that stand to profit from the regulation, a phenomenon we have also seen, for instance, in the history of the Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting substances.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 22, 2023
States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 23, 2023
NO x also contributes to the formation of ozone (or “smog”), another toxic pollutant. Note: this is adjusted for inflation to 2022 dollars and is based on the amount those plants emitted in 2021, the EIA’s most recent year of finalized data. pollution, which are particles with diameters of 2.5 micrometers or less. What can be done?
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
The Supreme Court clipped the agency’s wings in its 2022 West Virginia v. In June 2022, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
September 20, 2022 . After the 2014 shutdown Toledo spent $53 million to install an ozone treatment system at the city’s drinking water plant to safeguard customers from algal toxins, said Andrew McClure, the plant’s administrator. And political power with it. Just lack of political capital. Photographs by J.
ESA
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
In April 2022, the Biden administration announced the launch of the first-ever U.S. Antarctic ozone hole shrinks slightly – The Hill. Learn more about voting policies and rights in your state and register to vote at Rock the Vote , a nonprofit dedicated to engaging young people in politics. National Nature Assessment.
ESA
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties, or COP27, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in November 2022, ESA seeks ecological experts to include in a media advisory highlighting our members’ expertise in climate change and biodiversity. NSF will release a report about the data in early December 2022. in 2016 to 30.2%
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