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    Federal judge throws out pollution lawsuit against Southbridge landfill operator Casella

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    WORCESTER – Citing a lack of jurisdiction, a federal judge recently dismissed a lawsuit alleging Southbridge landfill operator Casella Waste Systems contaminated drinking water and a nearby stream and wetlands.

    The lawsuit was filed in June 2017 by two nonprofit environmental organizations – Toxics Action Center and Environmental Massachusetts - and 99 residents who live near the Southbridge landfill.

    The civil complaint said Casella posed an imminent and substantial danger to human health and the environment. It said the waste management company discharged pollutants to waters without a federal permit for a pollutant discharge elimination system.

    In granting Casella’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Hillman cited a litany of previous enforcement actions by the state Department of Environmental Protection against Casella, which does business as the 51-acre Southbridge Recycling & Disposal Park on Barefoot Road.
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    Trump races against clock to roll back major Obama-era environment rules https://www.theguardian.com/environm...nment-policies

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    Donald Trump’s administration is racing against the clock to rescind or rewrite every major pro-environment policy enduring from Barack Obama’s presidency – but the government will probably not be able to usher those changes through the courts before the next presidential election.

    Green-minded states and advocates cannot sue until regulations are final, and it could take years for the courts to rule. In the interim, the lengthy slate of rollbacks will slow progress on reducing air pollution and greenhouse gases that warm the planet, health experts say.


    Trump officials are weakening a rule that would speed a shift away from electricity made from burning coal – which causes early deaths and spews heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. They are also loosening standards for how companies discard coal ash, despite the fact that it is spilling into waterways in North Carolina following Hurricane Florence.

    Trump agencies are freezing mandates that new cars use less gasoline and pollute less, and they are cutting limits on potent methane gas released by the oil industry. They are rescinding an effort to give the federal government jurisdiction over more waterways. The EPA is also rejecting science that shows some pesticides make people sick.


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    Rolling Back Regulations, and Arctic Sea Ice Keeps Melting
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    Hi, everybody! While the nation’s attention was riveted last week by a certain Supreme Court confirmation fight, the Trump administration quietly continued its efforts to roll back environmental regulations.

    Our colleague Coral Davenport reported that the Interior Department plans to loosen safety regulations for offshore drilling that were issued by the Obama administration after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The administration is also getting rid of its Office of the Science Advisor — more evidence that the administration is marginalizing science as part of its decision making — and has placed the head of its Office of Children’s Health Protection on leave. The agency did not give a reason for the move.

    Outside of Washington, killer whales are turning up with toxic levels of PCBs in their blubber. Worldwide production of the compounds ended in 2001 under international agreements, but some problems, and chemicals, linger.
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    Trump Administration working to weaken EPA radiation regulations
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    WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is quietly moving to weaken U.S. radiation regulations, turning to scientific outliers who argue that a bit of radiation damage is actually good for you — like a little bit of sunlight.

    The government's current, decades-old guidance says that any exposure to harmful radiation is a cancer risk. And critics say the proposed change could lead to higher levels of exposure for workers at nuclear installations and oil and gas drilling sites, medical workers doing X-rays and CT scans, people living next to Superfund sites and any members of the public who one day might find themselves exposed to a radiation release.
    The Trump administration already has targeted a range of other regulations on toxins and pollutants, including coal power plant emissions and car exhaust, that it sees as costly and burdensome for businesses. Supporters of the EPA's new proposal argue the government's current no-tolerance rule for radiation damage forces unnecessary spending for handling exposure in accidents, at nuclear plants, in medical centers and at other sites.

    "This would have a positive effect on human health as well as save billions and billions and billions of dollars," said Edward Calabrese, a toxicologist at the University of Massachusetts who is to be the lead witness at a congressional hearing Wednesday on EPA's proposal.
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    Obama regulations.

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    We are in no danger. There is a super-hype propaganda campaign to make the US look stupid. We have cleaner air and water then we did when I was a kid. We have less pollution now than when I was a kid and almost twice as may people.

    We are not going backwards. We need less control now because we did the job that needed done. Cars emit only 2% of the pollution they did 50 years ago. There is no longer a need to reduce car emissions. It's been done. Coal smoke is scrubbed now. The water is clean.

    There is too much hysteria directed towards the US when it needs to be pointed to China and Russia. The question is why? Why are people blaming us for what someone else is doing?


    There is an anti-American school of thought that has never dies out. If there's a problem blame the US. I wonder what keeps these people in this rat hole.

    JAP, you are a backstabber. That's all you are. You have no validity except for your two cohorts. It's fun tearing you nonsense down but it's also too easy.

    We are doing just fine. I've seen how much we cleaned this country up once we realized it was a problem. We have made industry spend trillions of dollars to clean up the nation. We the people paid for it of course.

    I'm driving a car that is a death trap because we needed to cut emissions. Half of my car is plastic.That's enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RadioGod View Post
    It seems really strange that as the developed nations of the world are trying to move into the future, we are actually promoting moving back into the past. Instead of developing green energy and trying to reduce pollution and manufacturing byproduct harm to our civilian population, we are trying to go all-out with a new industrial age, complete with all the same primitive technology from that same era.
    Not really. Green energy is slowing taking over.
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    EPA to disband a key scientific review panel on Air pollution https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/c...nce-panel.html

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    WASHINGTON — An Environmental Protection Agency panel that advises the agency’s leadership on the latest scientific information about soot in the atmosphere is not listed as continuing its work next year, an E.P.A. official said.

    The 20-person Particulate Matter Review Panel, made up of experts in microscopic airborne pollutants known to cause respiratory disease, is responsible for helping the agency decide what levels of pollutants are safe to breathe. Agency officials declined to say why the E.P.A. intends to stop convening the panel next year, particularly as the agency considers whether to revise air quality standards.


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    A documentary

    Americas Oil and Gas boom is creating a new global fossil fuel era
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    "Blowout: Inside America's Energy Gamble" is a project of Newsy, the Associated Press, The Center for Public Integrity and The Texas Tribune. See Newsy.com/Blowout for more.
    In a series of reports and an upcoming feature documentary, investigative journalists, scientists and concerned citizens trace the consequences of a new global fossil fuel era led by American oil and gas. From the booming oil fields of West Texas to tanker traffic busting the Panama Canal at its seams to a quiet energy revolution in east Asia, this documentary takes a deep dive into American energy's global impacts on profits, public health and climate change.


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    This is a good thing.

    While I favor replacing fossil fuels with green energy, it is not a switch that you just flip- it is going to be a process over a period of time. I believe, and have read in scientific journals that most if not all fossil fuel will be phased out by the end of the century. In the meantime we are getting closer to viable nuclear fusion- which would be a game-changer in many ways and make green energy moot.

    In the meantime, it is good that American fossil fuels will be sold globally and used locally. That is good for our economy.

    We can't go backwards- pre-fossil fuel energy sources pollute more and harm the environment more.
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