Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 26, 2024
Recommendations to improve new scientific integrity policies A process President Biden launched during his first week in office aims to ensure all agencies adopt scientific integrity policies that prohibit improper political interference in scientific research and prevent the suppression or distortion of scientific information.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 26, 2024
Recommendations to improve new scientific integrity policies A process President Biden launched during his first week in office aims to ensure all agencies adopt scientific integrity policies that prohibit improper political interference in scientific research and prevent the suppression or distortion of scientific information.
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Law Columbia
DECEMBER 5, 2019
Permit conditions – Several statutes require permit holders to have and implement plans to prepare for extreme events – e.g., Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; Oil Pollution Act; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
As water and water runoff does not respect political boundaries, international laws on conservation and use are common and applied, especially where there is shared use and responsibility or competing claims to it. Some of the world's oldest environmental protections were designed with human health in mind.
Law Columbia
MARCH 14, 2024
These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites.
Law Columbia
MARCH 6, 2018
In a joint memorandum of law, these companies argued that New York City’s claims arise under federal common law and that the Clean Air Act has displaced the federal common law or, alternatively, that the plaintiffs’ “expansive derivative theory of liability” fails to state a claim that complies with federal common law standards.
Acoel
JANUARY 11, 2022
On January 7, the Supreme Court heard argument in challenges to adoption of a temporary emergency standard under the Occupational Safety and Health Act requiring vaccination or testing of all employees at large employers. The question presented in the pending challenge to the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, West Virginia v.
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