Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Only portions of the legislation apply directly to units of local government, but taken as a whole it can be expected to help U.S. Still, how does a local government tap in? There are six broad ways local governments will need to navigate the IRA. . There are six broad ways local governments will need to navigate the IRA. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Furthermore, the court did not offer any specific metrics or frameworks for when, exactly, it could invoke the doctrine, suggesting that the court manufactured a way to inject itself at-will into the role of policymaker and technical expert, usurping the roles of the other two branches of government.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

After all, EPA had never regulated in that manner, despite having issued many prior rules governing power plants under Section 111. Congress specifically “entrust[ed] such complex balancing to EPA,” because that “expert agency” has the needed “scientific, economic, and technological resources” to carry it out. at 427–428.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. Buildings are one of Colorado’s top five sources of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s a major step forward in protecting both public health and clean air.”

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2022

As water crises beset North America, all eyes are on the Great Lakes and the leaders, systems, and rules that govern them. Other grants will be spent on projects to reduce gang violence, restore historic sites, and fund health technology. Two countries, eight states, five lakes — and 84 percent of the continent’s surface fresh water.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As an academic, he had sounded a cautious note about government regulation, calling for more deliberation and greater consideration of costs. In one case, the Court held — in an opinion by Justice Scalia no less — that the government cannot consider cost in setting national air quality standards. Justice Breyer concurred.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

government halts new mining leases in a northeast Minnesota national forest for 20 years. Copper and nickel are crucial minerals for clean energy technologies. A bipartisan congressional task force requests $425 million in federal funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. ” — Deb Haaland, U.S. secretary of the Interior.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. Cars and trucks are a lot cleaner than when I was growing up. Transit agencies in Washington, D.C.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

DEP said it has the statutory authority in the 1995 law that created the agency, the state Air Pollution Control Act and other laws to establish grant and funding programs to implement the Plan. Pennsylvania’s Climate Action Priority Plan is available online. Visit DEP’s Priority Climate Action Plan webpage for more information.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

As an academic, he had sounded a cautious note about government regulation, calling for more deliberation and greater consideration of costs. In one case, the Court held — in an opinion by Justice Scalia no less — that the government cannot consider cost in setting national air quality standards. Justice Breyer concurred.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations governing implementation of the 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit , passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act. To defend against such negative outcomes, Treasury must explicitly prohibit pollution offsets within the 45V framework.

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Montrose

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

“In what is widely regarded as a stable market, a number of companies exceeded the norms of low single-digit growth with double-digit growth or ambitious ventures into new practice areas or technology development,” said Grant Ferrier, president of Environmental Business International Inc. publisher of Environmental Business Journal.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste. Government Accountability Office report in September found that one-in-five water systems across six states had unsafe levels of PFOA and PFOS. It’s frustrating,” he said.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

The CAA’s emphasis on not just “reduction” but “elimination” of pollutants begins in its preamble , where Congress highlights pollution prevention as a key strategy for air quality management and provides the legal foundation for states’ and local governments’ roles. the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Wall v.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The tools and technology for achieving that goal in agriculture are well understood and applied with differing levels of authority, commitment, and effectiveness around the world, but not across the United States. a potential solution is chemical technology to scrub harmful algal blooms from lakes. In the U.S., Ohio is investing $91.7

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Breezometer

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District urged people with heart or lung disease to follow doctors’ advice for dealing with episodes of particulate exposure. ” - - Fresnobee. wildfire smoke models), live traffic pollution and meteorological/land cover information. LANCASTER, Calif. But how do we do this?

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. Issued on: 09/01/2024 - 17:26 2 min Corporation TotalEnergies S.E.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

EPA’s final rule leverages the latest cost-effective, innovative technologies and proven solutions to prevent an estimated 58 million tons of methane emissions from 2024 to 2038, the equivalent of 1.5 Methane pollution, however, is a global problem.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

By mandating pollution controls on wastewater treatment plants and industrial facilities, it marked a new era of environmental stewardship — an era in which rivers and lakes were viewed not as dumping grounds but as civic assets that fostered recreation, ecological rebirth, and economic development. During a storm?

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Over 40 countries pledged to rapidly scale up technologies and policies to achieve a transition away from unabated coal power generation in the 2030s for major economies and in the 2040s globally. billion to the National Science Foundation to start a Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP). The bill provides $1.52

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

municipalities face from climate change, the special role that federal vehicle emissions regulations play in protecting municipal public health, and the threat that Petitioners’ radical interpretation of the major questions doctrine poses to the day-to-day operations of state and local governments. Last year, local governments in the U.S.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

House passes measure keeping the government open through March 11. This work includes but is not limited to work on strategic technologies. In contrast, USICA Creates a Technology and Innovation Directorate focused on “key technology focus areas.”. Forest scientists press counties to keep managed fire policy.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

President Biden, National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy and many others in the administration leadership have touted its highly ambitious, whole-government approach to taking the climate crisis. US Capitol Hill – Flickr. In the administration’s first three months, we have already seen this begin to take shape.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Petitioners include thirty States, State agencies, and local government entities and more than one hundred private companies, cooperatives, and industry trade groups. EPA also cannot require electricity generation to be shifted from coal-burning units to units that use other energy sources as a pollution control technology.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

billion to the National Science Foundation to start a Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP). The directorate is tasked with accelerating use-inspired and translational research in technologies and innovations of national importance. 2225 ) to create a new technology directorate. 2225 ) this past summer.

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ESA

MAY 15, 2023

This bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to collaborate with state and local governments and Indian Tribes on vulnerability assessments related to ocean acidification. NOAA and EPA – Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Proposal To Find That Michigan Has Satisfied Conditions on Earlier Approval.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

It focuses on three destruction and disposal technologies: thermal treatment, landfilling, and underground injection. Not Just the Federal Government—States Continue to Take on PFAS. Biden-Harris Administration Policy on Scientific Independence Now Front and Center Following PFBS Controversy.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

3531 ) that requires the federal government to develop a National Climate Adaptation and Resilience Strategy and authorizes a chief resilience officer position in the White House. This dialogue will be held in conjunction with the 2022 session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice. Legislative updates: Sen.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Senate Bill 334 / House Bill 76 establish that a person who meets the threshold standing requirements under the federal Clean Water Act has an unconditional right and the authority to intervene in a civil action initiated by the State in State court to require compliance with certain water pollution control measures.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

I named the Priority Pollutants a moment ago, which are 129 chemicals of interest under the Clean Water Act, RCRA, one of two federal laws governing hazardous wastes has several hundred “Appendix IX” groundwater monitoring compounds. Through this law, water pollution is managed by controlling wastewater discharges.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various federal and state government agencies and potential litigants. N: Memorandum from Director, Pollution Control & Clean Up Directorate, EPA Office of Inspector Gen., 26, 2021).]] Directive 2021-8 (Oct.

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