Pollution Regulation News Today

A controversial application to build staff accommodation in the garden of a Bouet terraced property has been rejected by the planners, after serious concerns over fire safety were raised.

The vice-president of the States body in charge of waste disposal has said he was surprised to learn that parishes had not been consulted over a requete calling for douzaines to be able to make their own arrangements for disposing of waste.

PERMISSION for nine new houses at L’Aumone has been granted.

Guernsey authorities are testing samples from Havelet Bay after the dark looking water was spotted.

Half a century has passed since the US enacted a slate of environmental legislation in the 1970s, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act. This column reviews the literature and shows that air and water pollution are declining but greenhouse gas emissions are not because CO2 has been targeted less by environmental policy. These trends appear

The U.S. is the largest plastic polluter per capita. The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act could change that.

Fever Norovirus is easily transmitted either by coming into contact with an infected person, consuming contaminated food or water, or by touching contaminated surfaces or objects. Most people make a full recovery within a couple of days, but it can be dangerous for the very young, elderly people and those with underlying health conditions.  Norovirus transmission can easily be reduced by simple measures such as: Regular handwashing with soap and water and change your towels frequently. Alcoh...

RACHEL BECKER CalMatters California is poised to issue the world’s first guidelines for microplastics in drinking water despite no data on how plentiful they are in the state, no scientific agreement on how to test water for them and little research on their health risks.  The pieces of plastic — smaller than an ant, some so tiny they can be seen only with a microscope — have contaminated wildlife and human bodies through their food, air and water. Under a 2018 sta...

If you are telling me thats low-wage workers skyrocketing up as far as increases in wage growth, its pretty tough to want people and the eye and say you are in a job where you make a bit less money but you are making more and you feel it in your paycheck, you dont see lines a separate that aggressively and if you try to attack income inequality we went to make peoples lives better thats how you want the graph to look in different than the tall tale democrats are trying to spin. >> the increase i...

Give them to independent commissions. the question is whether that violates the constitution, and the third is the all exciting epa case. it has to do when the epa calculates the cost of what a pollution regulation should be. should it be before they choose which pollutants to regulate or afterwards? i can guarantee whatever happens in that case its not the last chapter on the epas authority. >> not the last chapter here and regardless of what happens this morning and those three rulings, lets t...