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Why Isn’t Hydrofluoric Acid Banned at Oil Refineries?

Legal Planet

However, Goldsmith is optimistic because Attorney General Bonta took a very strong position on HF in his letter to the Biden Administration EPA, signed by 19 other Attorneys General , concerning proposed regulations on risk management plan rule improvements, some of which involve HF. Lyou thanked former SCAQMD board member and current L.A.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

22 In Washington County -- Natural Resources Conservation Service-PA Pennsylvania State Technical Committee Meeting Oct. 22 In Washington County -- Natural Resources Conservation Service-PA Pennsylvania State Technical Committee Meeting Oct. 26 Conservation Cornerstone Webinar: Ag Best Management Practices Value [PaEN] -- Nov.

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Who Benefits from Dismantling EPA Science?

Union of Concerned Scientists

The so-called No IRIS Act (H.R. Silencing this office would stifle the lifesaving health research that underlies our nations environmental protections, and would result in weaker regulations and higher rates of cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities, and other devastating health consequences, especially for children. 1415 and S.

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President Trump’s Cabinet of Polluters, Frackers and Climate Crisis Deniers Rushes to Gut Protections

Union of Concerned Scientists

The finding, long a legal target for climate deniers, has so far held up , even in an ultra-conservative Supreme Court, but that has not stopped the administration from attacking it. Returning to the EPA in top spots for chemical regulation are Nancy Beck and Lynn Dekleva.

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189 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Supervisors Outline Solar Energy Facility Regulations In Luzerne County -- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Solar Program For Lower-Income Homeowners Could Be ‘In Jeopardy’ Under Ex-President -- DEP Invites Comments At 4 Public Input Sessions To Help Develop PA Home Energy Rebate Programs Starting Oct.

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Supreme Court Sidelines Science, Threatens Public Health: These Rules-in-Progress Show What’s at Stake

Union of Concerned Scientists

When facilities emit less pollution, their regulations require less specific record-keeping and monitoring. How stringently facilities are monitored should be based on science and on the impacts on the people who live nearby—not by a judge’s ideological viewpoint on regulation.

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Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Union of Concerned Scientists

It was a big step towards providing adequate health protections, but Environmental regulations need to look at people, not just pollutants—and the way to get there is by assessing cumulative impacts. But the requirements in the rule were developed considering that one carcinogen from that one type of facility.