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Cumulative Impacts: Why Environmental Protections Need to Take Them into Account

Union of Concerned Scientists

When I began working as a state government scientist in Minnesota, I was motivated to advance environmental protections that prevent against pollutants from crossing from one environmental medium to another, such as from the air to water. To understand cumulative impacts, we can use the analogy of a doctor’s appointment.

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Minnesota Needs Environmental Protections for Cumulative Impacts. Your State Does Too.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Should it become statute, this bill would give additional regulatory authority to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (the state regulatory agency) to limit or deny an environmental permit if the proposal would result in significant additions to the cumulative environmental and public health stressors around the facility.

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Alkermes' Approach to Environmental Protection and Sustainability

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Environmental Protection and Sustainability. We strive to conduct our business activities in a manner that minimizes the environmental impacts of our operations and promotes effective stewardship of environmental resources. KEYWORDS: Alkermes, environmental protection, Sustainability, ESG, CSR.

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Ranks Hormel Foods in Top 100 for Green Power Use

3BL Media

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Fortune 500 ® list of the largest green power users from the Green Power Partnership (GPP). Environmental Protection Agency for our green power use,” said Mark Coffey, group vice president of supply chain for Hormel Foods. “We 57 on the U.S. KEYWORDS: NYSE:HRL, Hormel Foods, U.S.

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Yum China Launches Low-Carbon Environmental Protection Campaign to Drive Consumers to Embrace Low-Carbon Life

3BL Media

Qu Cuirong, CEO of Yum China, said, "Utilizing our strong online and offline connections with consumers, we hope to encourage and reward more environmentally friendly choices and continuously deepen public awareness of environmental protection. View original content here. . yumbrands [link]. KEYWORDS: NYSE:YUMC, Yum china.

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Sen. Yaw To Introduce Bill To Remove ‘Protection’ From The Name Of The Department Of Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Majority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, announced plans to introduce legislation to take the word “Protection” out of the name Department of Environmental Protection. He proposes to replace it with the Department of Environmental Services.

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Senate passes first major update to Canadian Environmental Protection Act in two decades

Enviromental Defense

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Last night, the Senate approved Bill S-5, the long-awaited legislation to modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). The bill, which was introduced in the Senate, has yet to pass in the House of Commons. But Bill S-5 is not yet law.