Remove Air Pollution Remove Clean Air Act Remove Government Remove Toxic Substances Control Act
article thumbnail

Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

article thumbnail

Game Changer- U.S. EPA Proposes to List PFOS and PFOA as “Hazardous Substances” Under CERCLA

Ohio Environmental Law

Federal Property Transfers (CERCLA 120(h)) – Any time the federal government transfers property with PFOS and/or PFOA contamination it must notify the transferee of the contamination. Either the contamination must be addressed prior to the transfer or the federal government must continue to remediation post transfer.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

I named the Priority Pollutants a moment ago, which are 129 chemicals of interest under the Clean Water Act, RCRA, one of two federal laws governing hazardous wastes has several hundred “Appendix IX” groundwater monitoring compounds. Clean Water Act. The Clean Air Act.

article thumbnail

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. During February’s oral arguments in West Virginia v.

article thumbnail

The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants. Three More PFAS Added to Toxics Release Inventory List for 2021 Reporting Year; EPA Announced Plans for More Additions to List. The House bill ( H.R.

2021 52
article thumbnail

The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants. N:Air-Conditioning, Heating, & Refrigeration Inst. 21-1082 (D.C. filed Mar. 4, 2021 and stayed Apr. 6, 2021).]]

2021 52
article thumbnail

Deregulation, Normal Accidents, and the Airborne Toxic Event

Legal Planet

Images of enraged residents shouting at company executives and government officials about the inadequacy of the response remind us all that across our vast industrial economy accidents of one sort or another are always waiting to happen while private firms and the agencies that are supposed to regulate them are too often asleep at the switch.