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… that significantly reduced which watersheds are protected under the 1972 Clean Water Act. EPA officials said the move was a result of a decision in May by the U.S. Supreme Court, which … and as much as 63% of wetland acreage, according to a report by The Washington Post citing an EPA official. The river was selected as the symbol of this year's Season of Creation , an …

… Where was he when migrant children were abducted with no plans for reunification, when the EPA was gutted, when the Muslim travel ban was instituted, when Nazis marched in Charlottesville, …

… rabbis and religious from 44 states and Puerto Rico wrote in a letter delivered Aug. 8 to EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. "We have a moral obligation to protect our climate," they said, with 200-plus Catholic women religious among the signatories. In May, EPA proposed standards for carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act for new and existing power … from the combustion of fossil fuels. The proposed standards seek to curb that output, with the EPA estimating through 2042 they will cumulatively slash up to 617 million metric tons of carbon …

… comments on postcards to be sent to the United States Environmental Protections Agency, or EPA, in support of the proposed changes. Panel host IHM Sr. Barbara Stanbridge said, "We want to encourage the EPA to truly be an environmental protection agency … not [one] protecting the fossil fuel … power sector was the next largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States in 2021. The EPA's proposed limits target these emissions, which according to the EPA are "almost entirely" …

… equaling about 167,000 pounds of coal that would have been burned each year, according to the EPA's greenhouse emission calculator. (The calculator uses national averages.) With the …

… Protection Agency continue to investigate. DeWine said in an April 20 update that Ohio EPA officials have so far removed about 12.8 million gallons of liquid wastewater and almost …

… try to fight the industry, and fight the politicians." A new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling announced April 6 — intended, the EPA said, to "reduce the number of people with elevated cancer risk by 96 percent in communities … incremental lifetime cancer risk in some stretches reaching one in 210 — or 47 times the EPA's acceptable risk. Pope Francis reflected upon such impacts in his encyclical "Laudato Si'," …

… PFAS are linked to cancer, suppressed immune responses and other health concerns. The new EPA rule requires public water system monitoring to strictly limit six PFAS chemicals, instead of the previously unenforceable guidance of just two. The EPA's action signals heightened concerns about drinking water quality and safety. A Feb. 16 TIME …

… annually. Attendees at "Detroit's Dirty Air" were invited to submit public comments to the EPA and urge it to save lives by setting soot pollution standards to the amount "recommended by the EPA's own scientific advisory." Jesuit Fr. Lorn Snow, Gesu pastor and event panelist, said, "I …

… this country have suffered far too long from the ever-present threat of PFAS pollution," EPA administrator Michael Regan said in a March 14 statement. "That's why President Biden … launched a whole-of-government approach to aggressively confront these harmful chemicals, and EPA is leading the way forward," Regan said. "EPA's proposal to establish a national standard for PFAS in drinking water is informed by the …

… more lives, say faith groups, public health officials and environmental justice advocates. The EPA issued a proposal Jan. 6 to strengthen existing limits on airborne fine particulate matter — … 9 and 10 micrograms per cubic meter. The proposed rules were the first in a decade from the EPA after the Trump administration in 2020 opted to keep in place the 2012 standards. Soot, or PM … impacts of air pollution. It's everybody's problem," Landrigan told EarthBeat. As for the EPA's proposed limits, the pediatrician and epidemiologist said he would bring the limit as low …

… than you'd think. Consider the recent  Supreme Court decision  in West Virginia v. EPA at the end of June. The court's conservative majority ruled that the EPA can't implement sweeping regulations on carbon dioxide without the explicit approval of … was required to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles under the Clean Air Act. But the EPA, under President George W. Bush, refused to do so, saying that the Clean Air Act didn't give …

… matter sensors on the church roofs, manufactured by  QuantAQ , are a low-cost version of the EPA's sensors, which cost tens of thousands of dollars. But even the monitors MCU is using cost …

… as hazardous substances and to potentially list the chemicals as toxic pollutants. In August, EPA proposed a rule to label two PFAS as hazardous substances. The House bill drew support from …

… showed the area as "one of the most burdened communities in the United States." According to EPA data, Welcome is in the 86th percentile for air pollution-related cancer risk in Louisiana, …

… industry races to expand their fleets of electric vehicles. In a letter delivered Sept. 8 to EPA headquarters and addressed to administrator Michael Regan, the faith contingent called for … for communities and neighborhoods near highways and highly trafficked roads. In December, EPA finalized its most stringent rule to date under the Clean Air Act that sets fuel economy … cars and 48 mpg for light-duty trucks, compared to the current 38 mpg average standard. EPA estimated the new standards by 2026 would reduce emissions from cars and trucks by 28.3%, …

… committed to care for creation promptly responded to the Supreme Court's decision on the EPA's authority regarding fossil fuel emissions. The international Laudato Si' Movement protested …

… protect them from ever increasing incidents of mass shootings. Similarly, in West Virginia v. EPA , the conservative majority on the court chose to ignore reality in order to preserve a … York v. United States , 505 U.S. 144, 187 (1992). But it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme in Section 111(d). A decision of … now moves to state legislatures, and the media focus will follow. In both the gun control and EPA decisions, the court barred, respectively, the way to legislative and executive action. It is …

… justice was not served in the Supreme Court's ruling this week in West Virginia vs. EPA . In a time where fulfilling what is required of us should demand fighting pollution and … lives at risk but deals a major blow to federal climate action, severely limiting the EPA's authority to regulate carbon pollution under one portion of the Clean Air Act. It did so in …

… events. "We must bring these emissions down. Yet today, the Supreme Court chose to limit EPA's authority to regulate these emissions, rendering less resourced our collective imperative … conservative justices — five of whom are Catholic — all in the majority, the court ruled that EPA acted without explicit authority from Congress when it issued in 2015 the Clean Power Plan, …