EPA Adopts Civil Rights Enforcement of Environmental Laws
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving from a largely reactive stance on civil rights to one that aggressively ventures...
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Enforcement of environmental laws by the EPA has seriously diminished • Earth.com
A recent press release from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows that enforcement data has been declining for ten years....
PFAS incineration and experimental science heighten concerns about environmental discrimination
Norlite smoke pollutes the sky near the Saratoga Sites public housing community. Image: Joe Ritchie By Kristia Postema Editor's note:...
Air and water under threat as SCOTUS takes aim at environmental laws
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on January 25, 2022. It is shared here with permission under a Creative...
ICT’s Khayaban-e-Margalla project arrested for violating environmental laws
Islamabad: The Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) has ordered to immediately stop work on the Khayaban-e-Margalla project and ordered to...
Sekondi-Takoradi journalists trained in environmental laws
Training of journalists Journalists and media professionals from print and broadcast media in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis received training on the...
Proposed Major Reforms to Australia’s National Environmental Laws – Will these reduce the “green strip” and be sufficient to address the current trajectory of environmental decline?
Proposed reforms to Australia's domestic environmental laws are likely to increase the effectiveness of the EPBC Act by reducing the...
Is consolidation or implementation the key?
From an era where we care little about environmental costs, our country has moved to a stage where regulators are...
Enforcement of environmental laws is the key to environmental justice
Now that the nation's attention is on racial justice, the administrator of the Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA) Andrew WheelerAndrew...
The disappearance of the federal role in the application of our environmental laws
The Trump administration has downgraded environmental enforcement, favoring polluters over the interests of citizens.The number of inspections undertaken and enforcement...
EPA eases enforcement of environmental laws during COVID-19 outbreak – TechCrunch
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Thursday that it is temporarily easing enforcement of environmental regulations and fines...
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Trump administration stops enforcing environmental laws in the age of coronavirus
The Environmental Protection Agency this week waived enforcement of many of its health and environmental safeguards, offering what the agency...
Citing an outbreak, the EPA has stopped enforcing environmental laws
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday abruptly backed away from enforcing a series of legally mandated public...
EPA to limit enforcement of environmental laws during coronavirus emergency, giving businesses more flexibility
The environmental agency said companies have complained of staff shortages. March 27, 2020, 5:28 p.m.• 6 minute readShare on FacebookShare...
Citing coronavirus, EPA suspends enforcement of environmental laws
A sweeping decision by the Environmental Protection Agency to suspend application of a range of health and environmental protections due...
EPA suspends enforcement of environmental laws amid coronavirus
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday issued a sweeping suspension of its enforcement of environmental laws, telling businesses they...
Pennsylvania Lawyers’ Environmental Laws in the 1970s Seem to ‘Reappear’
This article originally appeared on StateImpact Pennsylvania. — When Fran Dubrowski took her first job outside of law school in...
Court orders two Massachusetts companies to comply with environmental laws and pay $1.3 million in fines
October 29, 2019 BOSTON – The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently ordered RM Packer Company, Inc....
EPA finds Wisconsin barrel factories violate environmental laws
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that a chain of industrial renovation factories in the Milwaukee area violated federal...
Most Americans Support Stricter Environmental Laws and Regulations
Crews clean up oil from the beach at Refugio State Beach May 20, 2015, north of Goleta, California. About 21,000...
Reviews | Let’s modernize our environmental laws
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled tough new smog regulations, and it's clear the agency has the legal power...
Top Stories – When companies break environmental laws, why aren’t the individuals responsible prosecuted? – AllGov
Tens of thousands of companies have been caught polluting the air, water or soil, but the federal government rarely prosecutes...
When Property Rights and Environmental Laws Collide: NPR
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments Monday in a case near and dear to enemies of the EPA. It...