Refinery Explosions Highlight Lack of Emission Reporting
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Susan Sargent | October 17, 2019
Washington, DC, Oct. 17, 2019 — A massive refinery explosion that this week paralyzed much of the San Francisco Bay Area raised uncertainties about the contents of the massive chemical plume coating neighboring communities. A new regulation requiring that regulators, responders, and ...
United States: The Chemical Compound – October 2019
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Susan Sargent | October 16, 2019
This quarterly newsletter provides updates on litigation, regulatory, legislative, and other notable developments involving chemicals of concern to business. Our present focus is on substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and ...
NRDC Briefs Congress on Neonic Pesticide Human Health Harms
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Susan Sargent | October 15, 2019
I am pleased to be able to brief Congressional staff—both the House and Senate side—on the potential for adverse human health harms from neonicotinoid pesticides, or ‘neonics’. NRDC is one of a coalition of environmental groups—including Friends of the Earth (FOE US) and Public ...
Death Valley’s Park Service Wants Them Gone. But Are Wild Donkeys Really the Enemy?
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Susan Sargent | October 14, 2019
DEATH VALLEY National Park is stunningly barren. Silt hillsides crowned with rock and scree give way to dry streambeds and barren salt flats, the air dancing under a pitiless sun. The largest park in the lower 48 states, it contains the lowest elevation point in the country — nearly 300 ...
Bison group sues to get FOIA fulfilled; Yellowstone bison population reported
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Susan Sargent |
A Montana-based bison advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against Yellowstone National Park and the Department of Interior after not receiving requested records through Freedom of Information Act requests more than a year ago. Attorneys for Buffalo Field Campaign filed the complaints in U.S ...
Maryland’s renewable energy facilities break pollution rules, say groups calling for enforcement
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Susan Sargent | October 11, 2019
Many facilities that supply Maryland with renewable energy have exceeded pollution limits or otherwise broken environmental rules, violating a state law, according to a complaint sent by environmental groups to state energy and law enforcement officials. Maryland law says that any company ...