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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012.

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How the recycling symbol lost its meaning

Grist

It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. The laws eventually passed in 39 states. This spring, Maine passed a law to incentivize companies to use accurate recycling labels on their packaging.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

has grown from around $250 million in 2012 to over $1 billion in 2021. After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I The value of exported pellets in the U.S.

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New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say 

DeSmogBlog

Some of these cases have been brought under consumer fraud or protection laws that penalise companies for misrepresenting their products to the public. ” An excerpt from Shell’s September 1992 “ Business Environment Occasional Paper ” on the “Potential Augmented Greenhouse Effect, & Depletion of the Ozone Layer.”

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Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it

Grist

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. But here, too, most fertilizer runoff efforts are voluntary — and exceptions undercut the state’s 2015 ban.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. The visits were usually brief, according to four TCEQ reports filed between March 2011 and October 2012. On June 13, 2012, two investigators spent 15 minutes outside K-Solv. 1, 2012, an investigator spent three minutes outside K-Solv.