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Game Changer- U.S. EPA Proposes to List PFOS and PFOA as “Hazardous Substances” Under CERCLA

Ohio Environmental Law

Under CERCLA, PRPs are broadly defined as the following groups: Any current owners of property where hazardous substances were released regardless of whether they released those substances. Any past owners or operators of a facility that released hazardous substances. Generators of hazardous substances.

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EPA Will Not Require Financial Assurances From Electric Power Sector

Clean Energy Law

CERLCA imposes a joint and several liability scheme that holds certain entities ( e.g. , certain owners and operators, generators, arrangers, and transporters of hazardous substances) liable for the costs or damages associated with environmental remediation. Section 108(b) and EPA’s Path to This Decision. What’s Next?

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Waste management concerns the governance of many aspects of waste from their transport and storage, proper procedure on disposal and treatment where necessary, everything from the recyclable packaging of our household waste right up to nuclear waste as a byproduct of energy production. Title III of the Act created EPCRA (see above).

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An Effective Strategy on Climate Change Requires State Action

Acoel

And importantly, the state plans are not limited to reducing carbon emissions from power plants but are economy-wide in scope, evaluating greenhouse gas reduction and clean energy opportunities in the electric supply, transportation, commercial and industrial, land use, and agricultural sectors. the Departments of Interior and Energy).

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

For example, soil sampling must consider depth - shallow soils because people are exposed to them, at the water table because it's the first encounter with a that medium, or in multiple aquifers because there are various routes of contaminant transport. A few examples are: Clean or dirty (or how dirty). in air inhaled).

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PFAS…The Forever Chemicals

Capaccio

A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to designate PFOA and PFOS as Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) hazardous substances would require facilities to report on these PFAS releases that meet or exceed the reportable quantity assigned to these substances. . How We Can Help .

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants. The bill was introduced in the House on August 6 and referred to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology and on Transportation and Infrastructure ( H.R.

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