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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

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municipalities face from climate change, the special role that federal vehicle emissions regulations play in protecting municipal public health, and the threat that Petitioners’ radical interpretation of the major questions doctrine poses to the day-to-day operations of state and local governments. The brief emphasized the threat that U.S.

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Road Salt, A Stealthy Pollutant, Is Damaging Michigan Waters

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By mandating pollution controls on wastewater treatment plants and industrial facilities, it marked a new era of environmental stewardship — an era in which rivers and lakes were viewed not as dumping grounds but as civic assets that fostered recreation, ecological rebirth, and economic development.

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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

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In applying state law to ending a harmful algal bloom, the Platte Lake Improvement Association joined a select group of governments, citizen groups, researchers, and private companies seeking to achieve the same result. The federal government paid 80 percent of that bill. . Ohio is investing $91.7 Chesapeake Bay.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 1.27.22

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. -- DCNR Secretary Outlines 2022 Priorities To Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council, Including Need For $1.4 WITF Smart Talk: Is EPA Committed To Restoring Chesapeake Bay? Heffley: Bill To Expand Local C-PACE Clean Energy, Energy Conservation Funding Program Passed By House -- Commonwealth Financing Authority OKs $3.2

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Chesapeake Bay Program: Unusual Weather Conditions Continue To Impact Chesapeake Bay Water Quality

PA Environment Daily

Water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries is heavily influenced by nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment pollution delivered from the watershed and can vary year-to-year due to a number of factors including land use, fertilizer and manure use, wastewater and septic discharges, and river flow.

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EQB Adopts Final-Omitted Reg. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; And A First-Ever State MCL For PFOS/PFOA

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DEP again repeated their legal position that Act 52 does not apply to regulations promulgated under the state Air Pollution Control Act like the one before the Board for the vote. The alternative for Rep. Metcalfe said it is inappropriate to use the final-omitted process to avoid the public comment period on this regulation.

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China’s Waste Ban Exposes Missing Links in Recycling

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The Chinese government cited its need to protect public health and the environment, improve domestic waste management, and halt illegal waste imports. pollutants contaminate one-fifth of all Chinese farmland. , The Chinese government estimates that. Within China, the government is trying to reduce waste at-source.