EPA intends to update its 2012 recommended recreational water quality criteria (RWQC) to address viruses in addition to its current focus on bacteria and to include use of certain “new methods” for identifying fecal matter contamination.
EPA intends to update its 2012 recommended recreational water quality criteria (RWQC) to address viruses in addition to its current focus on bacteria and to include use of certain “new methods” for identifying fecal matter contamination.
President Joe Biden, environmentalists and others are pledging to work with federal agencies and states to toughen water quality rules after the Supreme Court significantly narrowed the scope of Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction, though such efforts face significant uncertainty in part because more than two dozen states are barred from adopting standards stricter than federal limits.
As the White House and House Republican leaders move closer to reaching a deal on raising the debt ceiling, environmental justice (EJ) advocates are urging President Joe Biden not to includes provisions from House Republicans’ permit streamlining plan, warning that they will undermine administration efforts to add EJ considerations to permitting.
A group of 84 lawmakers -- 82 Republicans, two Democrats -- is urging EPA to drop its plans to require tougher air emissions controls on small bulk gasoline distributors ahead of the agency’s June 1 deadline to finalize the rule, arguing that the high costs of compliance would be infeasible, threatening fuel supplies to some users.
Even as EPA is touting Louisiana’s environmental justice (EJ) provisions in the state’s proposed permitting program for carbon storage sites -- calling the approach a “model” for other states to follow -- EJ advocates are slamming the process-based requirements for not requiring officials to take concrete action in response to concerns.
Congress is slated to return to Washington to vote on what is expected to be modest legislation streamlining environmental permit requirements as part of a broader package raising the debt ceiling. EPA is taking comment on its proposed rule strengthening power plant discharge requirements.
EPA’s rule governing aircraft greenhouse gas emissions illustrates a wider problem with the lack of legally enforceable environmental justice (EJ) mandates in agency regulations, says one legal analyst, though a federal appellate court that is preparing to rule on the measure did not pay much attention to the issue during oral argument.
A first-of-its-kind civil rights settlement between the City of Chicago and the Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) requires the city to comprehensively overhaul its zoning and land-use policies to reduce industrial exposures in “sacrifice zones,” a deal that environmental justice (EJ) advocates say should serve as a national model for future EPA rights work.
As President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) continue their 11th-hour negotiations aimed at raising the debt ceiling before a looming deadline next month, a deal to cut or slow federal spending could drive “drastic cuts” at EPA though the agency is seeking record increases in fiscal year 2024.
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