supreme court declines to roll back environmental protections fought for and implemented by President Biden

[butters]

At the beginning of October, the Supreme Court declined to block two Biden administration environmental regulations set to protect U.S. citizens from polluting industries, the Associated Press reports.

These regulations come from the Environmental Protection Agency and restrict the release of methane and mercury. Mercury is a well-known toxin that causes "tremors, insomnia, memory loss, neuromuscular effects, headaches, and cognitive and motor dysfunction," per the World Health Organization. Methane increases the risk of respiratory conditions such as asthma, and it's a potent heat-trapping gas playing a significant role in the overheating of our planet.

A third EPA regulation, which would directly address heat-trapping gases from coal-burning power plants, is still being examined.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/s...&cvid=cbad6915b02d4064ab9f95377fc59983&ei=100

 

[butters]

fixed the thread title!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...&cvid=cbad6915b02d4064ab9f95377fc59983&ei=245

Ovintiv, an oil and gas giant, just found out that dodging clean air laws can burn a hole in their pockets.

As reported by OK Energy Today, Ovintiv has been penalized for failing to control its release of harmful pollutants at 139 oil and gas facilities across Utah, including on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation.

The settlement includes a $5.5 million civil penalty fine and requires the company take actions expected to exceed $10 million that are projected to reduce over 2,000 tons of VOC pollution and 50,000 tons of harmful pollution each year. That's about as much as taking nearly 13,000 gas-powered cars off the road.

nice one

of course, the incoming administration is aiming at reducing all those pesky environmental regulations so others still flouting the current laws may yet breathe easy.















fixed the thread title!

Ovintiv, an oil and gas giant, just found out that dodging clean air laws can burn a hole in their pockets.

As reported by OK Energy Today, Ovintiv has been penalized for failing to control its release of harmful pollutants at 139 oil and gas facilities across Utah, including on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation.

so over $5M civil penalties and then

edit: over $10M in changes they have to make to clean up their act. Not sure what happened to the rest of this post but shit happens!

 

[Lazaran]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/s...&cvid=cbad6915b02d4064ab9f95377fc59983&ei=100

How tough of a call could that really have been???



Supporting the blocking of methane releases from coal fired power plants should be a no-brainer as well.



And they really need to get on with the work of forcing oil and gas companies to cap orphan wells that are spewing MILLIONS OF TONS of methane into the atmosphere PER YEAR.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Their job was to overturn rvw. Check!