Clean Air Act Earth Day Government 
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.
Circle of Blue
JULY 8, 2025
Led by new public concern about the consequences of industrialization, landmark environmental legislation in the 1970s steadily assured protections for air, water, and wildlands. The collateral damage of nation-building was paid little heed by the federal government and larger public. ” Before 2024, experts at the U.S
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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. In an early celebration of Earth Day, the California Coastal Commission walloped oil company Sable Offshore Corp. Deep breath.
Legal Planet
APRIL 23, 2025
They made it through Earth Day one of two insufferable seasons of cliche, inane PR pitches clogging their inboxes. I usually feel meh about Earth Day because a hyperfocus on a single day feels superficial and performative. But this Earth Day hit different. The 2-week UN Climate Conference each fall.)
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 13, 2025
Here are 171 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Environmental Science
JULY 30, 2018
I named the Priority Pollutants a moment ago, which are 129 chemicals of interest under the Clean Water Act, RCRA, one of two federal laws governing hazardous wastes has several hundred “Appendix IX” groundwater monitoring compounds. Clean Water Act. The stated goal of the Clean Water Act is “zero discharge.”
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
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. In a Pew poll last summer, two-thirds of respondents said the federal government is not doing enough to protect air and water quality.
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