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Over the last few years, I have heard time and time again about the new rules and regulations that are being piled on the backs of our nation's small businesses and their hard working employees. They aren't wrong that this it has been a regulatory avalanche: an average of 81 new major rules have been announced by the Obama Administration annually, including a total of 43 major regulations with more than $100 billion in cost.
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the city of Colorado Springs for its "continuing and significant" violations of the Clean Water Act. The DOJ first notified the city of its intent to sue Nov. 5. The violations, according to information from the DOJ, are related to the city's permit for stormwater discharges.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said she's done talking to "climate deniers" who don't think human activities are causing global warming. "If they haven't figured out by now, what in God's name could anyone say to them?" McCarthy said in a Facebook Live interview with Mashable Tuesday.
A federal district has ruled that environmental regulators must consider the cost of its decisions on jobs, specifically the coal sector. While regulators are supposed to evaluate the costs and benefits to their rulings, this decision is seen as something of a blow to the Environmental Protection Agency and its pending rules on carbon.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says in its response to a lawsuit over the Dakota Access pipeline that it followed proper procedure in evaluating permits for water crossings and did not violate any federal laws. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed the federal suit in July after the Corps granted permits at 200 crossings, including one in North Dakota that's less than a mile upstream from the reservation.
At least five Wells Fargo employees have sued the bank or filed complaints with regulators alleging that they were fired after reporting the opening of customer accounts without their permission, according to a Reuters review of lawsuits and complaints to the U.S. Labor Department. The suits and complaints, filed between 2010 and 2014, raise questions about how early Wells Fargo knew about such allegations and how it handled them.
The centerpiece of President Barack Obama's climate change strategy faced a key test on Tuesday as conservative appeals court judges questioned whether his administration overstepped its legal authority under an air pollution law to make sweeping changes to the U.S. electric sector. Twenty-seven states led by coal-producer West Virginia and industry groups are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan rules before 10 judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
On Thursday, in a brief order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit announced that all but one of the court's active judges will be participating in the en banc review of the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan regulations. What this means is that the case will now be heard by 10 judges instead of nine.
President Barack Obama will expand the country's largest contiguous fully protected conservation area to create the world's largest marine protected area in Hawaii, covering 582,578 square miles of land and sea, the White House said. The designation Friday will more than quadruple Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument to protect coral reefs, deep sea marine habitats and ecological resources in the waters off the northwest Hawaiian Islands.
The U.S. Navy has rejected calls for blood testing and monitoring of people who worked on local military bases as well as community members outside the bases. The Navy did pay for bottled water when public and private wells were shut down for PFOA and PFOS contamination levels above what the EPA considers safe over a person's lifetime.
A federal court has made it official, putting off indefinitely the implementation date for trailers under the federal government's heavy-duty truck fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions standards . Whether the decision to stay the Jan. 1 deadline eases or compounds uncertainty for trailer manufacturers and freight carriers remains to be seen, however.
Harley-Davidson motorcycles and the Environmental Protection Agency have come to terms on a settlement that requires the motorcycle company to stop selling illegal devices that increase air pollution. The EPA and the US Department of Justice announced the settlement this week.
The Environmental Protection Agency says it's finalizing a plan to supply water to some residents of Kewaunee County of northeastern Wisconsin, where manure from large dairy farms is being blamed for contaminated wells. Robert Kaplan, acting regional administrator for the EPA, told residents at a meeting organized by U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin this past week that his agency will announce a plan within the next month to supply residents who have tainted wells.
Buried in OSHA's impending final rule on electronic reporting of workplace injuries and illnesses is this little nugget. OSHA believes that you violate the law if you require an employee to take a post-accident drug test.
Wind-turbine opponents convinced the D.C. Circuit that the government issued a permit to an Ohio wind farm without fully considering ways to reduce the deaths of endangered Indiana bats. Ohio-based Union Neighbors United brought the 2013 complaint in Washington, D.C., taking issue with the U.S. government's approval of a permit for the Buckeye Wind Power Project.
Monday, Donald Trump unveiled his plan to revitalize America's economy in a policy speech at the Detroit Economic Club, focused on providing the tools to every American to succeed economically. Trump promised to "unleash the American economy to spur faster growth and benefit every American."
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at an event on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park, N.Y. Cuomo said Thursday the state would consider legal action if federal officials proceed with plans to expand dumping sites. . less New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at an event on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park, N.Y. Cuomo said Thursday the state would consider legal action if federal officials proceed ... more New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at an event on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park, N.Y. Cuomo said Thursday the state would consider legal action if federal officials proceed with plans to expand dumping sites.
In 1952, a massive fire - fueled by oil and industrial waste - engulfed Ohio's Cuyahoga River. Was that the inspiration for the platform Republicans just adopted in Cleveland? AP file photo The Republican Party's 2016 platform , released on Monday at its national convention in Cleveland, has sections called "A New Era in Energy" and "Environmental Progress."
House Republicans on Wednesday approved legislative language aimed at keeping the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing President Obama's signature environmental regulation on a voluntary basis while it's blocked by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court blocked the Clean Power Plan, the EPA's program for setting carbon emission cut goals for existing coal power plants, in February.
Ainsworth Elementary, which serves 600 students in Southwest Portland, showed high levels of lead at one-fourth of its water sources, including two drinking fountains and eight classroom sinks. Tests on water samples from Ainsworth Elementary show that one of every four water sources, including two drinking fountains and eight classroom sinks, contained lead at levels higher than a federal action threshold.