The company appears to have since addressed all the problematic monitors, and regulators are reviewing those fixes to ensure that they are in working order, the district said. Requiring Chevron to install and maintain its own monitors provides additional emissions data and further supports compliance and transparency, Dr. Philip Fine, executive officer of the Air District, said in the news release. Chevron's upgrades to its monitoring systems are an important step toward strengthened accountability and accessible information for the communities surrounding the refinery.
The Trump administration is seeking to abandon a rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution, arguing that the Biden administration did not have authority to set the tighter standard on pollution from tailpipes, smokestacks and other industrial sources. The action follows moves by the administration last week to weaken federal rules protecting millions of acres of wetlands and streams and roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live.
Clark County Water Reclamation District (CCWRD) claims that, this summer, Boring Company employees refused to stop dumping drilling fluids when inspectors arrived at its project site near the center of town and directed them to stop, according to the violation. The next day, Boring apparently "feigned compliance" only to continue dumping the wastewater after a company manager "assumed district inspectors had departed the property," according to a cease-and-desist letter.
Blame the shutdown of Bay Farm's only fuel stop on the estimated $2 million price tag to remove the station's old single-walled underground gas storage tank and replace it with a state-mandated double-walled one - an environmental upgrade. That's just too high for station owner Simon Kim. When Kim was first notified several years ago that he needed a double-walled tank, the cost was $1 million. He says at the time he thought he could handle that.
A united EU-UK front on environmental issues is essential for a successful international engagement on these issues. Changes could also be considered from the perspective of the maintenance of a level playing field, which is a central element of the EU-UK relations. Access to the EU's energy markets is also imperilled by the bill, representatives of the EU warned the government. This would be very difficult for the UK, which imports 16% of its electricity from Europe.
C&H, which was operating the plant, did not have a sufficient contingency plan in place to deal with kinds of exceedingly warm weather that they got that day and that we see more and more of with climate change,
When a Texas oil company first announced controversial plans to reactivate three drilling rigs off the coast of Santa Barbara County, investor presentations boasted that the venture had "massive resource potential" and was "primed for cash flow generation." But now, less than two years later, mounting legal setbacks and regulatory issues are casting increasing doubt on the project's future. Most recently, the California attorney general filed suit against Houston-based Sable Offshore Corp., accusing it of repeatedly putting "profits over environmental protections."
Immediate environmental hazard work is likely to continue, but longer-term efforts such as research, permitting, writing new rules and pollution enforcement will largely freeze. Many activities will halt, including research and the publication of research results, and the issuance of new grants, contracts and permits, according to the agency. Critically, civil enforcement inspections - on-site visits to facilities to check their compliance with environmental regulations - will also cease.
Reeves who in July claimed regulators were a boot on the neck of business cheered her recent decisions to sack the chair of the competitions watchdog, shut down the payments regulator, and severely constrain the Financial Ombudsman Service, which UK banks have long lobbied to curtail. However, she said there was still more to do. I want to take out more regulators, there's still too many, Reeves told investment firms gathered in London at the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) summit
One of the Trump administration's top priorities has been its devastating, unilateral rollback of renewable energy projects and environmental regulations - and a corresponding, aggressive push for fossil fuel interests. But to hear a growing chorus of "abundance" proponents tell it, the real obstacle to climate progress is environmental regulation itself. In a disturbing trend, influential politicians and commentators are propagating the idea that U.S. environmental regulation is too stringent,
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), colloquially referred to as forever chemicals, are a class of thousands of chemicals that do not degrade in the environment and have been linked to a slew of worrying health outcomes, including various cancers, hormonal disorders, and developmental delays. Because they do not degrade, they are uniquely pervasive: a 2023 study from the US Geological Survey estimated that 45 percent of tap water in the US could contain at least one PFAS chemical.
All 25,000 of these outflows are causing toxic pollution every time it rains. While sewage pollution attracts all the attention and coverage with 56bn earmarked to address it, just a few million is invested into addressing pollution from these 25,000 road outfalls. This pollution contains microplastics, hydrocarbons, toxic metals and chemicals. It is carcinogenic, it gets into the water system but no one is measuring these harms. No one is interested.
On July 17, the Interior Department announced that all wind and solar projects would have to undergo "elevated review" from department Secretary Doug Burgum's office. On July 29, Burgum ordered an end to "preferential treatment" for "unreliable, foreign controlled energy sources," specifically wind and solar. The next day, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which sits within the Interior Department, rescinded all designated Wind Energy Areas along the continental shelf.
Earlier this month, the wellness entrepreneur Calley Means delivered opening remarks at a symposium called "The Future of Farming: Exploring a Pro-Health, Pro-Farmer Agenda," held in Washington, D.C., at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank. Means is prominent in Make America Healthy Again, the clean-eating, vaccine-skeptical movement that opposes corruption in the food, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries. He is also a top adviser to MAHA's patron saint, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., now the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Despite the apparent benefits of treated sewage sludge as a fertilizer, it poses significant environmental risks due to the presence of 'forever chemicals', microplastics, and toxic waste, which current regulations fail to adequately address.
