Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Still though, counties across the state have air that hasn’t met the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) standards for decades, causing a host of public health problems from asthma and cardiovascular issues to premature death. With COVID-19 still on our minds, I can’t stop paying attention to what it means to breathe freely.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

NOAA updates sea-level rise projections for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking another swing at defining key concepts that govern Clean Water Act requirements for wastewater utilities. Sea-Level Rise Update. The CDC analyzes trends in the rising number of Legionnaires’ disease. News Briefs.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 14, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency budget in fiscal year 2022, part of the $1.5 Environmental Protection Agency told states to prioritize disadvantaged communities when they allocate water and sewer funding from the federal infrastructure bill. 322 Million : Increase in the U.S. News Briefs. In a guidance memo , the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2023

“The Supreme Court ripped the heart out of the law we depend on to protect American waters and wetlands.” — Manish Bapna, president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a statement. In a decision last week the Supreme Court ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency in Sackett v.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2022

The database does not include six Congressional references to sea level rise (such as in appropriations to the Department of Defense to help preparing military bases) that did not explicitly mention climate change. The United States Supreme Court’s opinion in West Virginia v.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Footnote Disclosures would require companies to disclose in their financial statements: All positive and negative impacts of climate-related events, such as severe weather events and other natural conditions, including flooding, drought, wildfires, extreme temperatures, and sea-level rise, exceeding 1 percent of the related line item.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency, explaining how the administration would go about revising the scope of the Clean Water Act. 1,071 feet : Elevation, above sea level, of Lake Mead. By the Numbers. Sixteen contaminated sites such as Hanford and Savannah River were part of the audit.

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Acoel

AUGUST 22, 2022

Of special note was the enactment in 2020 of legislation to address environmental justice through the permitting process for potentially polluting facilities that are to be located in “overburdened communities.”

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Devastating climate impacts, from rising sea levels to more intense storms facing our coastal communities simultaneously, come with this global warming. Two of these pilot programs deal with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) investments into systems that manage wastewater, storm water and drinking water.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Furthermore, despite an explicit request from Ohio Senators, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not yet tested for dioxins , a class of chemicals that are formed when chemicals like vinyl chloride are burned. Dioxins are extremely toxic, even at low levels of exposure.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It captures the changes in mortality rates that are going to happen… the changes in crop yields… the changes in sea level rise, and the damages that will cost…”. How fast will sea levels and temperatures rise? What is the cost of living with, versus adapting to, sea level rise?

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Circle of Blue

JULY 20, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. Despite efforts by the nation’s leaders, the report found that water levels in the Murray-Darling Basin sat at all-time lows in 2019 and native fish populations have declined by more than 90 percent in the last 150 years. Drought in the American West. As of July 12, nearly 45 percent of the U.S.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

For example, issues of statehood and loss of territory due to sea level rise would arguably fall outside the Tribunal’s competence and could be addressed in the ICJ advisory request on climate change. The question is divided into two parts. And how do these translate into limitations to the rights of states?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. But before he was able to do that in my imaginary scenario, I corrected the record.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 12, 2019

On December 5, the Environmental Integrity Project (a national nonprofit organization) issued a report on state funding for environmental protection programs. The report, The Thin Green Line, looks at staffing levels and funding for environmental programs between 2008 and 2018 in the lower 48 states. 2008 Funding.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. In the US, for instance, Massachusetts v. These lawsuits face three key barriers. First, who can stand as a plaintiff? Most climate-change harms will be in the future and in often-distant low-latitude countries.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 18, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 and could dramatically reduce CWA protections. Intensifying storms and sea level rise are wiping out weakened wetland ecosystems, eliminating these biodiversity hotspots and leaving the coastal zone and its residents at even more risk.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Climate change is often discussed in terms of global temperature increase, sea level rise, and hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Secretary McDonnell. Video and photos of the event will be available later today at PAcast.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This production process emits significant air and water pollution with severe health consequences for neighboring communities already bearing the brunt of climate change impacts like sea level rise, severe storms and flooding. . redlining.)

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Acoel

OCTOBER 18, 2022

And even a slight rise in sea level makes the threat of a storm surge that more terrifying. In its strategic plan, “Working Together,” EPA even explains that environmental protection is a shared responsibility among the states, tribes, and the federal government.

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Legal Planet

JULY 19, 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency. The military has already taken steps to increase use of renewables and to harden sites against sea level rise. Climate change, too, is a “longstanding problem,” and it certainly has gotten worse despite the effort of the executive branch (Obama) to address the problem.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Part Two considered the future of the climate disclosure rule in the context of the SEC’s rulemaking process.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Among the geographically smallest states, with only a modest-sized population and lacking in a major metropolitan area, New Jersey’s leadership in environmental protection might be regarded as surprising. Yet, the sources of the state’s environmental activism are readily apparent.

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Washington Nature

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A healthier Puget Sound, cleaner waters and help for salmon The Environmental Protection Agency’s National Estuary Program protects and restores 28 estuaries around the country, including the Puget Sound and Columbia River Basin. Cape Flattery is part of the traditional homelands of the Makah Tribe. Photo by Elise Eliot.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Krajewski introduced Public Health Protections from Effects of Fracking, House Bill 1467 , which would create an Inter-Department Task Force between the departments of Environmental Protection and Health to launch and publicly report a comprehensive study on the public health impacts of the fracking industry. Santarsiero. “It

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 12, 2023

Having in mind this link between the oceans and climate change, it would be natural for the United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to provide a clear picture of States’ obligations to protect and preserve the marine environment in the context of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and finalizing the final Affordable Clean Energy rule in its place. On July 26, 2019, a Massachusetts state court upheld a Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) decision authorizing expansion of a landfill in the Town of Saugus.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

And serious anticipatory adaptation measures, even for risks as well known as coastal inundation from sea-level rise, remain few, weak, and highly contentious. The enormous and rapid expansion of CDR needed to bolster 1.5°C

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. These emissions standards were significantly loosened in the last year of the Trump Administration.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. Lawsuit Sought Critical Habitat Designation for Green Sea Turtles Whose Habitat Is Threatened by Sea Level Rise and Other Factors. Chao , No. 1:19-cv-02826 (D.D.C.).

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

billion increase for the Environmental Protection Agency over FY 2022. . The Senate confirmed Radhika Fox to be the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant administrator for water. This includes a $2.11 Geological Survey receives an 18% increase to $1.6 billion in fiscal year 2022. Fish and Wildlife Service to $1.9

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

It describes fluctuations between the sea level atmospheric pressure from the areas known as the Azores High and the Icelandic Low although these are not set in stone (8). Kennedy announced the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air Act although neither would come into effect during his presidency.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Often subject to specific environmental protections, especially when “endangered” (see above). Forestry and landscape sustainability : Forestry and landscape represent some of the oldest environmental protection laws in the world. As it is a waste, it serves no purpose on its own. It covers the following areas.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The project, which is supported by Governor Newsom, seeks to safeguard California’s water supply against the challenges posed by climate change, sea-level rise, earthquakes, and extreme weather fluctuations. The Delta Conveyance Project is a proposal for a new 44.6

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