Clean Air Act Climate Change Earth Day 
Circle of Blue
APRIL 21, 2025
I was a very young cat, just turned 14 years old, when 20 million Americans celebrated the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Our exploits were documented by New York Times reporter Joseph Lelyveld in the second-to-last paragraph of a page one story on Earth Day in the next mornings paper.
Legal Planet
APRIL 15, 2025
Meanwhile, EPA has posted a roster of nearly 50 coal-fired power plants that took the administrations offer on the Email us for a free pass on compliance with the Clean Air Act. If youre new here, welcome to The Drain, a weekly news roundup of climate and environmental headlines. Deep breath.
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Legal Planet
APRIL 23, 2025
They made it through Earth Day one of two insufferable seasons of cliche, inane PR pitches clogging their inboxes. The 2-week UN Climate Conference each fall.) I usually feel meh about Earth Day because a hyperfocus on a single day feels superficial and performative. But this Earth Day hit different.
Circle of Blue
JULY 18, 2025
Even considering Earth Day demonstrations in April, it’s the first time any of the Trump administration’s irrational and dangerous initiatives to impede, weaken, and obliterate the nation’s protections for land, water, and air generated more than a peep of resistance. The climate change hazards alone are self-evident.
Washington Nature
APRIL 22, 2021
On April 22, Earth Day, the Washington State House will vote on the Climate Commitment Act ( SB 5126 ). This is the best climate legislation, with a chance of actually passing, that has yet been proposed in the United States. Pass the Climate Commitment Act on Earth Day!
Environmental Science
JULY 30, 2018
The 4 big ones are the 1972 Clean Water Act , the 1970 Clean Air Act , the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act , and 2 hazardous waste laws having the acronyms CERCLA and RCRA, which I will explain later. Clean Water Act. The stated goal of the Clean Water Act is “zero discharge.”
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
The majority also seems utterly disinterested in the fact that a solid majority of people in this country want action on climate change and pollution. A CNN poll in December found that 73 percent of respondents in the United States say the federal government has some level of responsibility to curb climate change.
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