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The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic

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What’s Up With Water – April 16, 2018

Circle of Blue

Circulating water in the Atlantic serves as a kind of a heat exchange for the planet. Warm, salty water moves north from the tropics via the Gulf Stream off the U.S. East Coast to the North Atlantic, where it cools, sinks and then moves south. It heats the oceans waters so there is less cool water to sink and motivate the cycle.

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EPA Pulls Back Regulations Setting Methane Emission Limits, Regulating Wastewater From Oil & Gas Operations, Risk Management Rule At Petrochemical Plants

PA Environment Daily

On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping plans to reconsider more than 31 major environmental regulations and programs, including pulling back regulations reducing methane emissions and regulating production wastewater from oil and gas operations. Click Here for the announcement.

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Guest Essay: March 28, 1979 -- Three Mile Island

PA Environment Daily

The accident at TMI involved a broken valve, the loss of cooling water to the white-hot operating reactor, and then a series of cascading failures of gauges, pipes, and operators. The State Department of Environmental Resources did regulate radiation, but only from X-rays in doctors’ and dentists’ offices.

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12 Legal Tools to Push Climate Preparedness

Law Columbia

Environmental impact assessments – Environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act and its state counterparts should consider the climate conditions expected at the end of a project’s useful life, not just at the start, to help ensure the project can withstand those conditions.

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Justice Breyer’s Nuanced Voice for the Environment

Legal Planet

As an academic, he had sounded a cautious note about government regulation, calling for more deliberation and greater consideration of costs. The Clean Water Act only requires a permit for discharging pollution into waterbodies, and the Trump EPA argued that discharges into groundwater are never covered by this requirement.

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Justice Breyer’s Nuanced Voice in Environmental Law

Legal Planet

As an academic, he had sounded a cautious note about government regulation, calling for more deliberation and greater consideration of costs. The Clean Water Act only requires a permit for discharging pollution into waterbodies, and the Trump EPA argued that discharges into groundwater are never covered by this requirement.

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