Air Pollution Environmental Responsibility Politics 
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Often subject to specific environmental protections, especially when “endangered” (see above). Indoor air (pollution) : coming under OSHA rather than EPA, there are laws in place to ensure that employees work in a clean and safe environment with good ventilation. Indoor air is anything contained with a building.
Law Columbia
MARCH 14, 2024
These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The National Aeronautics and Atmospheric Administration offered to fly an airplane equipped with the world’s most sophisticated air samplers over Houston to monitor air pollution. Meanwhile, residents and rescue crews continued to feel sick, despite assurances from officials that the air pollution posed no health threat.
Acoel
JANUARY 11, 2022
The legal – as distinct from political – issues before the Court have to do with whether the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (a) has statutory authority to impose a vaccination requirement at all and (b) whether it can impose that requirement as a temporary emergency standard without complete formal rulemaking. . . 21A244 (U.S.
Law Columbia
MARCH 6, 2018
The court also found that the plaintiffs had demonstrated irreparable injury based on “the waste of publicly owned natural gas, increased air pollution and associated health impacts, and exacerbated climate impacts.” Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility v. 1:18 -cv-00271 (D.D.C., filed Feb.
Arnold Porter
AUGUST 26, 2021
EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. Three More PFAS Added to Toxics Release Inventory List for 2021 Reporting Year; EPA Announced Plans for More Additions to List.
Vermont Law
DECEMBER 19, 2016
Moreover, science cannot answer questions that are at heart economic or political, such as whether the Kyoto Protocol is worthwhile. [13]. Yet this fact does not mean that global warming will cause enough damage to Earth and to humanity to require drastic cuts in energy use, a policy that would have damaging consequences of its own.
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