New wetlands ordinance aims to bridge protection gaps after Sackett vs. EPA ruling
Georgetown county has started their first draft of their wetlands ordinance, which would be included in their comprehensive ...
EPA offers industrial polluters a way to avoid rules on mercury, arsenic and other toxic chemicals
As part of a push to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, the Trump administration is offering coal-fired power ...
Will the Supreme Court party like it’s 1935?
The nondelegation doctrine contends that Congress cannot delegate too much of its power to federal agencies. The Supreme ...
EPA to process controversial Clean Air Act pollution exemptions
The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing entities subject to the Clean Air Act to seek exemptions via email through ...
How Trump Plans to Upend Climate Regulations
In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency formally concluded that greenhouse gases jeopardize public health and welfare. This so-called endangerment finding became the legal foundation for a host ...
E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email
Referring to a little-known provision, it said power plants and others could write to seek exemptions to mercury and other ...
House Democrats call on EPA to halt shuttering of environmental justice offices
A band of more than 100 House Democrats are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to halt its plans to shutter ...
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On WOTUS Notice: EPA Gives Notice of Yet Another Clean Water Act Rule
The Agency Is Looking to Sackett v. EPA for a More ‘Durable’ Definition - From Obama to Trump to Biden, each of the last ...
The EPA plans to cut hundreds of environmental grants. Democrats say it’s illegal
EPA documents released by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works include a list of 400 grants targeted for ...
As EPA deregulates, nearly 1.8M acres of SC wetlands could lose federal protection, report says
U.S. Supreme Court stripped many of the federal protections from America's wetlands in Sackett v. EPA. South Carolina ...
Supreme Court seems likely to OK $8 billion phone and internet subsidy for rural, low-income areas
Liberal and conservative justices voiced concern about potentially devastating consequences of eliminating the fund that has ...