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Environmental Regulations in Construction: What Contractors Need to Know

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In construction, environmental regulations generally focus on stormwater, waste disposal, hazardous waste handling, and air quality. However, certain jobsites may fall under EPCRA regulations. Clean Air Act (CAA) regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources. Learn more: Construction & The Law.

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Produced with Genetic Engineering

Green Building Law Update

Only slightly less fun than a Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin Point Counterpoint on Saturday Night Live, is the fight over labeling food produced from a bioengineered organism is being waged in a Federal courtroom in Vermont. Given modern interstate commerce, we may all find all of our food labeled “produced with genetic engineering.”

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Path Cleared To Decommissioning And Site Restoration Of Vermont Yankee

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The NRC issued Vermont Yankee its operating license on March 21, 1972. “Vermonters know that I worked for many years to meet the promise made to Vermont when it was constructed that the plant be closed on schedule in 2012,” Gov. Posted by Heidi Schwartz . Principal Photography by Larry Keyes and Dan Marx.).

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Lawsuit Challenging Approval of Genetically Modified Animals

Green Building Law Update

This court action seeks to serve as a precedent for the regulation of potential future genetically engineered animals, effectively banning the science. The pleading argues that when Congress authorized the FDA in 1938 it never intended or provided a means for FDA to regulate twenty first century genetically engineered animals.

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Insulation in the extreme

Construction Specifier

Beyond the global pandemic and events in the news, both episodic weather events and new environmental regulations are placing extreme demand on building materials, including insulation. Extreme weather, climate concerns, and new regulations. Could events of the past year be considered anything other than extreme?

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Lawsuit Challenging Approval of Genetically Modified Animals

Green Building Law Update

This court action seeks to serve as a precedent for the regulation of potential future genetically engineered animals, effectively banning the science. The pleading argues that when Congress authorized the FDA in 1938 it never intended or provided a means for FDA to regulate twenty first century genetically engineered animals.

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Blue vs. Grey Over Green in Murray v. EPA; Cross-Border Rule Goes Ahead

Green Building Law Blog

The Clean Power Plan proposes to regulate the carbon emissions of existing power plants under the Clean Air Act. mccarthy regulation' EPA , plaintiff Murray Energy Corporation seeks to enjoin EPA''s Clean Power Plan rule even before it has been issued as a Final Rule.