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Legal Planet
JUNE 27, 2024
Clean Air Act. In public health terms, what makes air pollution distinctive is the millions of people exposes to common pollutants such as particulates and smog. Clean Water Act. This law has done a good job at cleaning up municipal and industrial water pollution.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act), as a result, EPA programs are often implemented narrowly, not holistically.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 9, 2024
To explore a small piece of what is at stake, let’s take a quick look at some of the rules currently under review at the EPA: Air emission reporting requirements If finalized and implemented, this rule will improve the way air pollution emissions are estimated and collected by the EPA.
Legal Planet
JANUARY 10, 2023
There are Supreme Court cases going back a century or more dealing with what we would now consider environmental issues such as preserving nature or air pollution. I began with a Westlaw search for the term “air pollution.” The earliest opinion I found was Huron Portland Cement Co. City of Detroit. Download as PDF.
Environment, Law, and History
JANUARY 12, 2023
Farber focuses on US Supreme Court decisions, finding its earliest uses of "air pollution" and "water pollution" and references to wilderness as something worthy of preservation in decisions from the 1960s. Wolfe, Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District vehicle, Burbank, 1947-1950?
Environment, Law, and History
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Farber writes: Well over a century ago, the Supreme Court ruled that it had that power to remedy interstate water pollution. Six years later, the Court decided its first air pollution case. Yet the Court didn’t hesitate to address pollution issues. an interstate air pollution case. That was in 1901.
Acoel
AUGUST 14, 2023
Take for instance: the burning Cuyahoga River that led to the Clean Water Act; the disastrous air pollution incident in Donora, PA that led to the passage of the Clean Air Act; the discovery of Love Canal that lead to the passage of Superfund; and most tragically, the chemical gas release in Bhopal, India that lead to the passage of EPCRA.
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