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Stay Vigilant: Keeping Companies Accountable under France’s New Corporate Duty of Vigilance Law

Vermont Law

Stay Vigilant: Keeping Companies Accountable under France's New Corporate Duty of Vigilance Law By Josie Pechous Hungry? The three NGOs contend that Danone failed to comply with France’s recently adopted Corporate Duty of Vigilance Law. The purpose of this law is to mitigate risks in all crevices of the supply chain. Dairy-free?

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Supreme Court Green Lights State Law Claims in Superfund Context

Environment Next

Supreme Court held that the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) (i) does not preclude owners of contaminated property from pursuing state law claims for nuisance, trespass and strict liability, but (ii) requires EPA approval of any remedial action conducted on the landowners’ property.

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DEP Testimony Provides Overview Of Budget Request, Progress On Permitting, Environmental Justice, Infrastructure Investments, PFAS, Watershed Cleanup, Climate, Clean Energy Initiatives

PA Environment Daily

I’m Jessica Shirley, the Interim Acting Secretary for the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Thank you for the opportunity to present Governor Shapiro’s proposed Fiscal Year 2024- 2025 budget for DEP. Closing The Governor’s 2024-2025 proposed budget for DEP is laying the groundwork to modernize our department.

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The Environmental Catastrophe that is PFAS will see Movement in 2023

Greenbuilding Law

And outside of courtrooms, last month the Biden Administration announced efforts to clean up these “forever chemicals” from the environment, including as examples among the many projects in the recently enacted Infrastructure Law, providing $75 Million to address PFAS in drinking water in Pennsylvania and $23.1 Million for New Hampshire.

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France is an Example of How Not to do Residential Greenhouse Gas Reduction

Greenbuilding Law

Under an updated schedule, the government has mandated that from January 1, 2025, forward, buildings that are rated below F or 420 kWh per m² will no longer be allowed to rent flats. Instead, DPE is an extraction based on factors including a structure’s building materials, orientation, mechanical systems, etc.

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

Effective July 13, the law banned local governments and state agencies from using class B firefighting foam containing intentionally added PFAS for training or testing purposes.[[N: In June and July 2021, Maine enacted multiple laws that regulate PFAS both in products and in the environment. The House bill ( H.R. 21-191 (S.B.

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The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

Law §§ 35-0105, 37-0115.]]. The law would also require guidance on alternative foams and equipment that do not contain PFAS. Regan announced on April 27, 2021 that he had established an EPA Council on PFAS (ECP) comprising senior EPA career officials to develop a multi-year strategy for 2021 through 2025 to address PFAS.[[N:News

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