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Mar 28 2023
Opinion
Federal Agencies Keep Failing To Legally Interpret the Clean Water Act
Whether the Clean Water Act gives the federal government the power to regulate dry riverbeds, isolated streams, and land next to wetlands remains clear as mud, as a recent federal court decision illustrates.
This past Monday, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction against the recently finalized clean water regulations issued by the
ReasonFeb 18 2023
News
FEMA sends help to East Palestine, Ohio 2 weeks after toxic train disaster
The Biden administration sent federal emergency officials to the site of Ohio’s toxic train derailment Saturday — two weeks after the disaster released a chemical plume that contaminated local streams and caused a mass evacuation of panicked residents. “US [Environmental Protection Agency] and Ohio EPA have been working together since day one,” Gov. Mike DeWine and Thomas Sivak of the Federal
New York Post (News)Feb 14 2023
News
Ohio train derailment leaves toxic chemicals behind
Emergency responders diverted vinyl chloride — a cancer-causing chemical — from the train into a trench and burned it off. Residents who were urged to evacuate last week have since returned. However, vinyl chloride is hazardous substance on the loose. EPA investigators said they found other hazardous material-containing cars “derailed, breached and/or on fire.” They also found industrial
The HillMay 31 2023
News
Where Is the U.S. Economy Headed? Follow the Money
The stock market is near a one-year high, giving many investors comfort. But down below, debt markets are creaking under the strain of rising interest rates.
Lending conditions for companies, consumers and real-estate developers tightened this spring to levels not seen since the height of the Covid pandemic, an analysis of public and private lending data by The Wall Street Journal shows
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 17 2023
News
More “forever chemicals” found in Colorado and U.S. freshwater fish, study warns
A single serving of freshwater fish can deliver as much PFAS “forever chemicals” as drinking a month’s worth of water tainted with the toxins, a new study says, echoing a Colorado study last year that found the dangerous compounds in every fish sample from popular state waters. An analysis of EPA samples by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, published Tuesday in the journal “
The Colorado SunJun 28 2023
Analysis
California Should Leave Its Truckers Alone
In one of the battles of the progressives’ war on things that work, California is making life harder for truck drivers and everyone who depends on them.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) was created in 1967 under Governor Ronald Reagan, and it was one of Reagan’s greatest mistakes. The CARB is an independent agency of the California state government. The federal Clean Air Act
National Review (News)Apr 12 2023
Analysis
New Biden administration pollution rules would require almost 10 times as many EV sales in 2032 as today
The Biden administration is proposing strict new automobile pollution limits that would require as many as two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032, a nearly tenfold increase over current electric vehicle sales.
The proposed regulation, announced Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency, would set tailpipe emissions limits for the 2027 through 2032
FortuneFeb 15 2023
Analysis
Ohio Train Derailment Could Become Full-Blown Ecological Crisis
The cocktail of toxic chemicals released as a result of the Norfolk Southern Railway train derailment in Ohio may lead to serious environmental damage, experts say.
Fish have turned up dead in streams, pets have died, and residents have reported experiencing symptoms associated with exposure to toxic chemicals following the derailment of a cargo train near East Palestine, Ohio, on
NewsweekFeb 11 2023
News
Ohio mayor furious with Norfolk Southern after train derailment: 'We’re going to hold their feet to the fire'
An Ohio mayor had strong words for rail operator Norfolk Southern Railway, promising that he would hold the company accountable as East Palestine residents returned home for the first time since a train hauling chemicals derailed and later sent up a toxic plume of smoke last week.
Trent Conaway, East Palestine's mayor, acknowledged that his community remains frustrated due to lingering
Fox News DigitalMar 05 2023
News
Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment is ‘horrifying’, says expert
Contaminated soil from the site around the East Palestine train wreck in Ohio is being sent to a nearby incinerator with a history of clean air violations, raising fears that the chemicals being removed from the ground will be redistributed across the region.
The new plan is “horrifying”, said Kyla Bennett, a former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official now with the Public
The Guardian