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How the Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision Benefits Big Oil and Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

This decision , reached with a 6-3 majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts, marks a significant shift in administrative law and has profound implications for environmental regulations and climate accountability. Successful court cases could limit the scope of future regulations.

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2022 Election: Water Regulation and Spending Punctuate State and Local Ballots

Circle of Blue

Groundwater regulation, legal rights to clean water, and spending measures highlight this election cycle. Voters in parts of Cochise and Graham counties will decide whether to join the state’s more populated districts and regulate groundwater extraction. Local Regulation. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue. State Spending.

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It’s Time for EPA to Regulate Chemicals by Class

Union of Concerned Scientists

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is charged with the Herculean and crucial task of assessing which chemicals are innocuous and which ones need to be banned or restricted because they pose a threat to our health or the environment. Fortunately, EPA has begun a slow pivot toward assessing multiple chemicals at once.

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After Decades of Disinformation, the US Finally Begins Regulating PFAS Chemicals

Union of Concerned Scientists

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” The same suppression and disinformation kept government regulators at bay for decades.

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Michigan’s Lack of Septic System Regulations is Causing Problems for Some of its Most Pristine Lakes

Circle of Blue

Michigan’s Lack of Septic System Regulations is Causing Problems for Some of its Most Pristine Lakes Failing systems can allow contaminated water to seep through the earth into nearby bodies of water. In the early 2000s, state environmental regulators told the village to fix the problem or the marina would be shut down. .

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DEP Releases Final Land Application Of Manure Supplement To Manure Management For Environmental Protection Manual

PA Environment Daily

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 27 PA Bulletin announcing the availability of the Land Application of Manure Supplement to the Manure Management for Environmental Protection Manual. [

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Rightwing Authoritarianism vs the Environment

Legal Planet

It also wants to destroy environmental regulation, especially climate law. The combination of authoritarianism, extreme conservative ideology, and anti-environmentalism is common globally, not just in U.S. Researchers have found links between two psychological dispositions and hostility to environmental protection.