Environment, Law, and History
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Legal Planet's Richard Frank posted today on the US Clean Water Act's 50th birthday. Nevertheless, and with the possible exception of the Clean Air Act, no law enacted as part of the outpouring of federal environmental legislation in the 1970’s has proven more successful and transformational than the CWA.
Legal Planet
JANUARY 10, 2023
In other words, it was only then that we could in terms of “environmental law” rather than distinct bodies of rules governing a scattering of different situations. 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.
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Acoel
OCTOBER 1, 2022
The Court’s embrace of the ill-defined “ major questions doctrine ” as the rationale for refusing to give any deference to EPA’s admittedly “plausible” interpretation of section 111 d of the Clean Air Act has raised the specter of the Court’s conservative majority taking a sharp axe to any number of environmental regulations.
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).
Ohio Environmental Law
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
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.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 27, 2021
Bedrock federal environmental, health, and safety laws have gaping loopholes and exemptions that allow radioactive oil and gas materials to go virtually unregulated, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act that governs waste management, the Atomic Energy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.
Clean Energy Law
JULY 16, 2019
EPA also looked at the financial health of the industry, cleanups in the sector, federal and state regulatory requirements governing releases of hazardous substances in the sector, and voluntary practices. 24 non-National Priority List CERCLA sites, and only two of those sites had releases post 1980 and required taxpayer-funded expenditures.
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