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Everything Is Connected — For Better or For Worse

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Posted on June 9, 2023 by Seth Jaffe Greenwire (subscription required) reported yesterday that more than 150 wildfires in Quebec have blanketed large swaths of the United States with unhealthy levels of particulate matter. People stay inside and use their air conditioners to stay cool and filter out the air pollution.

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Noise Isn’t an Inconvenience; It’s a Pollutant

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Posted on May 11, 2022 by Seth Jaffe. people in neighborhoods with low socioeconomic status and higher proportions of residents of color bear the brunt of noise pollution in this country. I used to think that noise was something that grumpy old men complained about. Then I became a grumpy old man.

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Does EPA Have Authority to Include Narrative Criteria in NPDES Permits? Yes, For Now.

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Posted on August 3, 2023 by Seth Jaffe Earlier this week, the 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed EPA’s NPDES permit issued to San Francisco’s Oceanside sewer system. Due process requires Congress to define penal statutes “‘with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited’”.

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Earthx2022 Law Symposium – April 21, 2022

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The symposium is the product of an Advisory Council that includes a number of ACOEL fellows: Jim Bruen, John Cruden, Dan Esty, Scott Fulton, Allan Gates, Pam Giblin, Tracy Hester, Seth Jaffe, Melinda Taylor, and chair, Jeff Civins. John Cruden and Pam Giblin will moderate two of the three panels at the symposium.

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Will We Ever Stop Overestimating the Cost of Complying with Environmental Regulations?

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Posted on November 12, 2021 by Seth Jaffe. People forget that markets work. When EPA promulgates new rules that appear to carry big price tags, smart people get to work and figure out more cost-effective ways to comply. There have been efforts to figure out why this happens so regularly.

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Our Environmental Statutes Are Broken

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Posted on December 12, 2022 by Seth Jaffe. Many people, including me, think that SCOTUS got it wrong, but I don’t think that the decision was crazy. Plenty of smart people have proposed creative ways to solve the problems I’ve described. A few weeks ago, the D.C. More to the point, if West Virginia v.

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The Internal Combustion Engine Is Bad For Your Health — What Should We Do About It?

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Posted on December 22, 2021 by Seth Jaffe. I’ve written a lot about how the developing science around particulate exposure supports making the PM2.5 NAAQS more stringent. Imposing standards that set a NAAQS and then saying “Thou shalt not violate the NAAQS” fail to provide any incentive for continuous improvement.