Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Site assessments for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act , or ‘Superfund’, include consideration of multiple exposure pathways and pollutants. For example, compliance demonstrations for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are based on multi-source analyses.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Participation by relevant groups will be crucial to ensuring projects are operated in an environmentally responsible and just manner. appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2022

The Wild Resource Conservation Act was passed on June 23, 1982, allowing the public to contribute to a special fund -- the Wild Resource Conservation Fund -- to protect and conserve these resources. The Wild Resource Conservation Program was born!

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

Reworld™ is a proven provider of e-waste recycling, recovery and environmentally responsible disposal, having recycled more than 135 million pounds of e-waste.

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Law Columbia

MAY 6, 2025

A court-mandated settlement required 14 mitigation measures, including a phased cessation of water extraction, ecosystem conservation efforts, and community development funding. At the regulatory level, oversight has also intensified.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 25, 2024

“The Innovative Practices for Soil Health Act provides common-sense, straightforward support for high-impact perennial practices through Natural Resources Conservation Service (NCRS) conservation programs. . For Immediate Release Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition lzaks@sustainableagriculture.net Tel.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is accepting comments on a petition for rulemaking submitted by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the American Bird Conservancy (ABC), and several other groups.

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E2 Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to list two “forever chemicals”—perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS)—as “hazardous substances” under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund).

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Onya

AUGUST 1, 2019

As a certified B Corporation , being socially and environmentally responsible in all aspects of our business is incredibly important to us at Onya. We also locked in a meeting and talk at The Nature Conservancy’s incredible San Francisco offices. Taking the issue of plastic pollution worldwide.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

10, 2022) , involved a corrective action under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) on the “Institute Facility” adjacent, but unrelated, to the campus of the University. West Virginia State University Board of Governors v. Dow Chemical Co. , No 20-1712 (4 th Cir. Groundwater flows from the Institute Facility under the campus.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Formed in 2019, the Well Done Foundation enables the oil and gas industry to partner with the conservation community to create an alternative pathway to success that benefits all. Click Here for information on projects in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2023

17 PennVEST Announces Investment Of $236 Million In 25 Water Infrastructure Projects In 17 Counties Environmental Quality Board Publishes Final Reg. PA Trout Unlimited Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues.

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Acoel

MARCH 28, 2024

As a young biologist working for the state environmental agency I was involved with environmental response teams that sampled sediments and fish in the river. I will never forget that period in my life and career. As I think of lessons learned from that experience there are many, but one stands out.

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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. The Conservation Law Foundation is pushing these requirements in lawsuits in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Agencies across the areas of disaster preparedness and response, environmental protection, commerce, housing, agriculture, and energy must take steps toward preventing, mitigating and responding to the release of hazardous and toxic materials resulting from hurricanes, tropical storms and associated flooding in coastal and riverside communities.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

11 Program On Natural Gas Leasing & Development In Loyalsock Creek [Exceptional Value] Watershed At Lycoming College Campus -- Groups Host Jan. 17 Webinar On Climate & Health Impacts Of Methane Gas From Oil & Gas Operations [PaEN] -- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Jan.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 20, 2023

Commercial PACE is a financing mechanism that enables building owners to fund energy efficiency, renewable energy, water conservation projects, and the like, through private loans collected with government property tax assessment billings.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Cooperation between conservation organizations and government , at a cost of nearly a half-billion dollars in private funds alone , has not only brought these birds back from the precipice but made them so plentiful that they roam residential streets from Boston to the Bay Area.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 24, 2022

KWBA proposed the “Kern Water Bank Authority Conservation and Storage Project” (the “Project”) to divert up to 500,000 acre-feet-per-year (AFY) from the Kern River for recharge, storage, and later recovery within the KWB and/or direct delivery to its members’ service areas, all via existing physical facilities. State ex rel.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. The law also requires Vermont’s Department of Environmental Conservation to establish PFAS surface water quality standards and consider regulating the entire class of PFAS chemicals. Instead, EPA issued nonbinding “. health advisories. ” Vermont. ,

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Conservation : The preservation or restoration of a natural environment for the social, ecological, or even economical benefit. For example, a program of river conservation will increase biodiversity while making the surrounding environment and people who live there healthier.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, eco-labels illustrate powerful tools of consumer-driven environmental protection and show that green-washing can be stopped through soft law approaches. Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety. ISO standards. , 21000 International Standards. German survey.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2023

On January 11, the PA Audubon Council announced the release of Guidelines For Municipalities On Bird-Friendly, Environmentally Responsible Utility Scale Solar Energy Facilities. The Guidelines were developed by the Council's Renewable Energy Committee and presented to PA Audubon Chapter leaders in a webinar on December 6.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Ocean Conservancy is excited to announce the launch of a groundbreaking tool designed to streamline the tracking of funding opportunities under two important pieces of legislation passed by the Biden administration, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

Here are 68 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. 17 [PaEN] -- DCNR Announces $3.2 17 [PaEN] -- DCNR Announces $3.2

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

Section 108(b) and EPA’s Path to This Decision. What’s Next? EPA will take public comment on the proposed decision for 60 days after the notice is published in the Federal Register.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2022

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Berks County supports environmentally responsible wind and other renewable energy development as an important measure to combat climate change. However, environmentally responsible wind energy development starts with siting turbines where impacts to wildlife and people can be minimized.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Conservation: The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act ( S. billion annually to state and tribal fish and wildlife agencies for conservation and the implementation of state wildlife action plans. Federal Register opportunities. This bill provides a combined $1.4

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

It came back to bite us in the 1980s and Congress responded with 2 laws to manage it: RCRA ( Resources Conservation and Recovery Act ) - manages new haz waste as it is generated and cleans up old haz waste problems at operating facilities, like landfills and factories.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For example, DEP has created a quarterly agriculture permitting stakeholder roundtable that began last fall and has engaged more than 50 operators, conservation district managers, technical agricultural experts, and others in the agriculture industry. Our proposed budget also includes $1.1

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Circle of Blue

MAY 12, 2025

Smith, and Sloan joined by younger entrants like RHST, a Canadian firm intent on conserving water in agriculture, and CLEANR, the Cleveland-based company that produces a microplastics filter for washing machines. The Love Canal scandal revealed the brazen evasion of environmental responsibility.

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Acoel

JANUARY 17, 2025

These laws borrow the Superfund moniker from the long-established federal environmental remediation law, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). Multiple other states, including California , Massachusetts , and New Jersey , have proposed similar legislation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

laws, including: the Clean Air Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) also known as Superfund; the Clean Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); and the Safe Water Drinking Act.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

California Federal Court Ordered Publication of Obama-Era Energy Conservation Standards in Federal Register. Department of Energy to publish energy conservation standards adopted in December 2016 that had never taken effect because DOE failed to publish them in the Federal Register. Conservation Law Foundation v. Ross , No.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

In June 2021, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) made available draft 1,4-dioxane Method Performance Criteria (MPC) for public review and comment.[[N: The House bill ( H.R. New York Released Draft Method Performance Criteria for 1,4-Dioxane for Potential Inclusion in Consumer Products Rule.

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

The task force will also work to improve and increase adaptation and resilience to the impacts of climate change, address current and historic environmental injustice, protect public health and conserve Department-managed lands, according to the order. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) introduced a bills (S.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In October 2021, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) announced the release of draft water quality guidance values for PFOA, PFOS, and 1,4-dioxane.[[N: The policies also must encourage submission of proposals by suppliers that offer products that do not contain intentionally added PFAS. 24, 2021).]]

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