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Feb 11 2024
News
EPA completes cleanup of Warren's Bear Creek after blue-green chemical spill
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Saturday completed cleanup activities on Bear Creek in Warren, where electroplating chemicals released from an unoccupied industrial building temporarily turned the water bright blue-green. The agency placed "pom-pom" boom in the creek to slow sediment from flowing downstream. The boom will remain as the owner of the electroplating shop that was the
Detroit NewsJan 24 2024
News
EPA blocked from using civil rights law to stop discrimination in permitting
Signage is seen at the headquarters of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 10, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Acquire Licensing Rights , opens new tab Jan 24 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has blocked the Biden administration from enforcing "disparate-impact" requirements against Louisiana state agencies when they issue environmental permits for
ReutersDec 01 2023
News
EPA proposes deadline to get rid of lead pipes
WASHINGTON -- Most U.S. cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under strict new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency as the Biden administration moves to reduce lead in drinking water and prevent public health crises like the ones in Flint, Mich., and Washington, D.C. Millions of people consume drinking water from lead pipes and the agency said tighter
Arkansas Democrat-GazetteJan 24 2024
News
'Pollution does not discriminate': Judge blocks Biden EPA from using racial metrics
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot require Louisiana to use race-based metrics to evaluate permitting decisions, writing that “pollution does not discriminate.” Louisiana objected in its May 2023 lawsuit to the EPA’s insistence that the state conduct a “disparate-impact” analysis on a Clean Air Act permit, arguing that officials lost sight of
WNDDec 04 2023
News
MON: EPA finalizes sweeping changes to methane rule, + More
Over the weekend, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham joined the Environmental Protection Agency to announce a final decision putting in place safeguards to slash methane and other harmful pollution from the oil and gas industry across the United States. “New Mexico embarked on drafting our oil and gas rules at a time when the United States’ climate leadership was lagging. Thanks to President
KUNMMay 26 2023
Opinion
The EPA Is Stopped at the Water’s Edge
Chief Justice John Marshall famously described the job of the courts: to “say what the law is.” The courts are supposed to read the law, not write it. Sometimes, however, the written law leaves much unanswered. At a certain point, while it is important that the Supreme Court adhere to the text written by Congress, it is even more important that it settle on an answer that tells Americans what
National Review (News)Jan 24 2024
News
Judge Bars EPA From Enforcing Civil Rights Mandates in Louisiana to Defund State Agencies
The EPA was citing a section of the Civil Rights Act in an effort to ensure that minority communities were not disproportionately exposed to pollution. A Louisiana federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) from defunding state agencies over allegations of discrimination and civil rights violations.
The Epoch TimesJan 24 2024
News
Judge bars EPA from enforcing Civil Rights Act provision in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
A federal judge on Tuesday night blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Justice Department from enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act’s disparate-impact requirements against Louisiana agencies. Judge James D. Cain, a Trump appointee, ruled against residents of a stretch of parishes along the Mississippi River known as “Cancer Alley,” an epicenter of petrochemical
The HillJan 24 2024
News
Judge Blocks Biden EPA From Applying Race-Based Metrics To Fighting Air Pollution
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot require Louisiana to use race-based metrics to evaluate permitting decisions, writing that “pollution does not discriminate.” Louisiana objected in its May 2023 lawsuit to the EPA’s insistence that the state conduct a “disparate-impact” analysis on a Clean Air Act permit, arguing that officials lost sight of
The Daily CallerApr 20 2023
News
Maryland reaches settlement with EPA
BALTIMORE — Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown will announce a proposed settlement in a 2020 lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to require Pennsylvania to develop and implement plans to achieve 2025 Chesapeake Bay restoration goals. Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring filed the notice of intent to sue with District
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