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Action to Protect Public Health and the Environment Must be …
WEBScientific evidence indicates a connection between PFAS contamination and health effects such as elevated cholesterol levels, kidney cancer, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, testicular cancer, and pregnancy-induced hypertension. These “forever chemicals” have posed a significant challenge to regulators and communities alike, prompting
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Farmworkers and the Pesticide Exposure Crisis – Vermont Journal …
WEBThe Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cannot take action to protect farmworkers because it is preempted by EPA’s authority to set standards for allowable pesticide exposure levels. The OSH Act states that “Nothing in this Act shall apply to working conditions of employees with respect to which other Federal agencies
Ecoperspectives – Vermont Journal of Environmental Law
WEBBy Emily Starobin, Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. May 3, 2024. When climate disaster strikes, language services are a matter of life and death and Washington, D.C.’s climate plan misses the mark. Our nation’s capital is a multilingual city, with 15% of residents speaking a language other than English at home.
Tackling Food Insecurity in Urban Food Deserts: A Legal Toolkit
WEBBy making an effort to offer healthy options to students receiving free meals at schools, especially during a health crisis like COVID-19, students can learn at an early age to value and prioritize eating well. A case study of four large, urban high schools in Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and New York looked at public schools’ responses to
A Sacrifice to the Emperor of Forever: PFAS and Sacrifice Zones
WEBLast year, the EPA wrote a letter to Louisiana’s health and environmental agencies, warning them of the harm and risk from chloroprene, which is an air-pollutant carcinogen. Id. Through President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, the EPA gave a grant to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to create an air monitoring project in
Fukushima’s Wastewater Problem: Balancing the Ocean’s Health …
WEBReleasing the “Treated” Fukushima Wastewater: Ocean’s Health vs. Nuclear Power . On August 24th, 2023, Japan released the first batch of contaminated, but treated, wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. This release is just a fraction of the over 1 million tonnes of contaminated water that is being stored onsite in containment tanks.
Can Cities Decide What “Healthy” Means
WEBSummary: Sacramento has called on Californians to reduce water usage as the state enters its fourth year of drought. While many parties bicker about how we should allocate water, municipalities have brought vanity into the arena. Many cities are willing to adopt new cutbacks, but others are reluctant to change appearance requirements in their zoning …
Environmental Justice in 2023: Equal Funding for All
WEBSpurred by the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to inclusivity, economic security, and climate resilience, 2023 brings historic federal funding in the fight against climate inequities. After decades of disinvestment, communities burdened by pollution and racist practices will receive this funding. President Biden’s Justice40
Extending Emergency Preparedness To Farm Animals
WEBUnder public health law, the states must create guidelines that improve the health and well-being of community members, which includes farm animals. In 2009, at the direction of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine issued the Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) which are guidelines for state and local governments.
You Can’t Check This Box: A Win for Environmental Justice – …
WEBIt is vital to stress just because emissions don’t exceed health standards under the CAA does not mean they don’t cause harm or impact. A harm is a harm. And under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, that is all that is required. To say there must be serious health consequences or an exceedance must happen would defeat the purpose …
Can Cities Decide What “Healthy” Means
WEBSummary: Sacramento has called on Californians to reduce water usage as the state enters its fourth year of drought. While many parties bicker about how we should allocate water, municipalities have brought vanity into the arena. Many cities are willing to adopt new cutbacks, but others are reluctant to change appearance requirements in their zoning
ZOMBIE CHEMICALS LEARNING FROM OUR PAST TO …
WEBFirst, this Note discusses why PFAS are a serious public health problem, especially due to their prevalence in the country’s drinking water supply. Second, this Note discusses the SDWA as a means of safeguarding public health and providing the statutory authority to regulate PFAS contamination in drinking water.
Factory Farms Endanger Innocent Communities – Vermont Journal …
WEBFactory Farming’s Effect on its Neighbors in the Community. Slaughterhouse work perpetuates a vicious cycle of violence and abuse that endangers innocent lives. Communities with large slaughterhouses are plagued by increased rates of violent crime, housing shortages, increased demands for social assistance, and high rates of child abuse.
EME Homer City v. EPA: Another Victory for Clean Air – Vermont …
WEBSummary: While many of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions this term were controversial, the air quality cases were marked victories for the environment. One of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions, EME Homer City Generation v. EPA, upheld the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, (CSAPR).By reinstating CSAPR, the Court sustained EPA’s efforts to improve the …
Not Intentional, But Impactful: Will Climate Change Bring …
WEBThey further claimed that it could affect the health and safety of its inhabitants and the operation of a local high school that was located only 1700 feet from the site. Thus, the middle-class residents claimed that Southern Waste Management Corporation’s decision to open a facility in their community was racially motivated. Nonetheless, the
Chemical Used to Make Teflon is Causing a Sticky Situation in …
WEBSummary: An Ohio jury awards $1.6 million after finding DuPont liable for dumping toxic chemicals into drinking water near its Washington Works Plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. The Environmental Protection Agency has yet to set a definitive standard allowable for the chemical, C8, in drinking water even though it is hazardous to human health, …
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WEBlinked to severe health risks, 10including neurological damage in children. The EPA’s announcement was a reversal of the Agency’s proposal for a total federal ban on the chemical introduced in 2015 under the Obama Administration.11 The EPA banned chlorpyrifos for household use in 2000 because of the risk of neurotoxicity to consumers, …
Environmental and Economic Equity in the Electric Vehicle …
WEBThese pollutants cause or can aggravate serious health problems such as lung damage, asthma, cardiovascular disease, cancer, birth defects and even premature death. In a study of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, the Union of Concerned Scientists found communities of color breathe 66% more air pollution from cars, trucks, and buses than white
VJEL Vol 24 Book 4
WEBthat affect human health and the environment.”17 This is an extension and acknowledgement of a larger social justice awareness movement that is currently used to guide projects which would have serious environmental impacts that disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities.18 In
2024 Watch List – Vermont Journal of Environmental Law
WEBIn 2011, Vermont experienced devastating flooding after Hurricane Irene, and in 2023, torrential downpours inundated the state in floodwaters after an unusually wet season. Both resulted in lost lives, damaged communities long after the events, and severe environmental degradation. And these events are becoming more common across the country.
We Need Lawyers that “Speak Science” Now More than Ever! – …
WEBEcoPerspectives Blog We Need Lawyers that “Speak Science” Now More Than Ever! By Erin Miller. May 18, 2020 On Thursday, March 26, 2020, the EPA released a statement explaining that they will stop enforcing environmental regulations because of the COVID-19 pandemic.This unprecedented decision to put in place a temporary policy which gives …
FERC COMPLIANCE WITH NEPA: UPSTREAM AND …
WEBHowever, health concerns raised quickly, especially as shale gas development moved closer to highly developed areas not used to mineral extraction—such as the enormous Marcellus Shale near large population centers on the East Coast. 20 . Vermont was the first state to ban fracking in . 12. Id. at 2. 13. See Natural Gas Weekly Update, U.S
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