The new level won’t trigger automatic cleanups, but it sets a lower threshold for taking precautions to reduce lead exposure.
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Lawsuits are inevitable, but an environmental lawyer explains why the EPA’s new power plant regulations are on solid ground.
Filtering out PFAS is only the first step. These ‘forever chemicals’ still have to be destroyed, and there are many questions about how to do that safely.
Years of research about the people who work in the federal government finds that most of them are devoted civil servants who are committed to civic duty without regard to partisan politics.
The new rule isn’t a mandate for electric vehicles, but it will sharply increase their market share over the coming decade.
Reducing particle pollution can save thousands of lives, but states need more data to inform better controls. An atmospheric scientist explains what data and actions are needed.
On Feb. 7, 2024, the EPA strengthened the federal limit for annual levels of fine particulate air pollution, or PM2.5. Many serious health effects have been linked to PM2.5 exposure.
New research shows that Americans may have absorbed public messaging about the importance of recycling too well.
In Sackett v. EPA, a suit filed by two homeowners who filled in wetlands on their property, the Supreme Court has drastically narrowed the definition of which wetlands qualify for federal protection.
Fossil fuel power plants can avoid most emissions by capturing carbon dioxide and pumping it underground. But to be a climate solution, that carbon has to stay stored for thousands of years.
After the Supreme Court overturned the Obama administration’s strategy for reducing power plant carbon emissions in 2022, the Biden administration is taking a narrower but still ambitious approach.
Carbon capture and storage could keep fossil fuel power plants running under newly proposed federal emissions standards, but it faces high hurdles.
A new study reveals wide disparities among state-issued Clean Water Act fines, and even among federal fines from regions to region. A law professor explains why it may be illegal.
The Biden administration is finalizing the first federal limits on two compounds, PFOA and PFOS, in drinking water. These so-called ‘forever chemicals’ have been linked to numerous health effects.
The Supreme Court opens its 2022-2023 session with a high-profile case that has major implications for both wildlife and landowners.
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court held that an Obama administration plan to regulate carbon emissions from power plants exceeded the power that Congress gave to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Local governments in Oklahoma are adapting to a 2020 Supreme Court ruling, but state officials have chosen a different path.
West Virginia v. EPA could be the opportunity that conservative justices have been seeking to curb federal power.
Farmers are stuck in a chemical war against weeds, which have developed resistance to many widely used herbicides. Seed companies’ answer – using more varied herbicides – is causing new problems.
What kind of evidence does it require to get a widely used chemical banned? A professor of medicine and former state regulator explains how the case for chlorpyrifos as a threat to public health developed.
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Professor of Law Emeritus, Vermont Law & Graduate School
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Glenn E. Futrell Distinguished University Professor of Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
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Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
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Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Environmental Law, University of Maryland
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Lynton K. Caldwell Professor, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California
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Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Virginia
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University
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Assistant Professor of Public Administration, University of Montana
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Professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Marine Science, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
