Tag: US Environmental Protection Agency
Stripping federal protection for clean water harms just about everyone, especially...
Jeremy Orr, Michigan State University
Before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, U.S. factories and cities could...
EPA must use the best available science − by law −...
H. Christopher Frey, North Carolina State University
Science is essential as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency carries out its...
Revoking EPA’s endangerment finding – the keystone of US climate policies...
Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School
Most of the United States’ major climate regulations are underpinned by one...
Heart attacks, cancer, dementia, premature deaths: 4 essential reads on the...
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new standard for protecting the public from...
Decades of public messages about recycling in the US have crowded...
Michaela Barnett, University of Virginia; Leidy Klotz, University of Virginia; Patrick I. Hancock, University of Virginia, and Shahzeen Attari, Indiana University
The Supreme Court just shriveled federal protection for wetlands, leaving many...
Albert C. Lin, University of California, Davis
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Sackett v. EPA that federal...
Fines for breaking US pollution laws can vary widely among states...
Jerry Anderson, Drake University
It’s expensive to pollute the water in Colorado. The state’s median fine for companies caught...
Regulating ‘forever chemicals’: 3 essential reads on PFAS
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to release a draft regulation limiting two fluorinated...