Enviromental Defense
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
The facility’s owner, Emerald Energy From Waste, has quietly announced it will more than quadruple its capacity to burn garbage from households and businesses. Instead, Emerald Energy From Waste conducts its own assessment and consultations, submits its documentation, and can assume it has the green-light.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 19, 2023
These trucks, which move shipping containers and goods from ports and railyards, are among the dirtiest on the road and are a primary source of air pollution in disproportionately impacted communities. pollution from vehicles. A battery-electric waste truck operated by Recology, which services multiple cities on the West Coast.
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Enviromental Defense
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Burning waste pollutes the air and warms the climate. What’s more, Emerald is planning a massive expansion of its incinerator in Peel, which is one of the biggest industrial polluters in Brampton. Instead, this false solution will foist more waste and air pollution on a community that is already overburdened with both.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 26, 2021
The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANC) v. Among other things, the Clean Air Act gives federal protection to wetlands. Illinois Central Railroad v. Army Corps of Engineers.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 12, 2024
DEP said it has the statutory authority in the 1995 law that created the agency, the state Air Pollution Control Act and other laws to establish grant and funding programs to implement the Plan. Read more here.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
have long demonstrated leadership on climate change, with more than 170 of them having set targets to phase out fossil energy and many others committing to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Waste decarbonization plays out in the context of the dormant Commerce Clause of the U.S. Cities around the U.S.
Legal Planet
APRIL 25, 2022
In a new policy brief released today, my colleagues Cara Horowitz, Julia Stein, and I argue that air districts have authority to go even further under state and federal law by adopting zero-NOx appliance standards—and that air districts should design such standards with the goals of equity and affordability in mind.
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