Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Clean Water Act Carbon Dioxide Clean Air Act Climate Change 273

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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2020 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In an unpublished judgment, the court rejected the petitioners’ other NEPA arguments regarding project design and capacity and cumulative ozone impacts. The companies argued that even if state law did apply, the Clean Air Act and foreign affairs doctrine would preempt the claims. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , No.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

There are agencies designed to protect public health and our natural resources. And, particularly with the State Department of Health, they have not been given the resources or even the authority to do that work effectively. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide.

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