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In 1986 Congress passed the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, which authorized the EPA to gather data on toxic chemicals and share this information with the public. [29] EPA also researched the implications of stratospheric ozone depletion.
Reorganization Plan No. 3 was proposed by President Nixon in a message sent to Congress on July 9, 1970. [8] The plan was authorized by a 1966 amendment to Title 5 of the United States Code (Government Organization and Employees). [9] After conducting hearings during that summer, the House and Senate approved the proposal.
Since its inception, the authority given to the EPA by Congress and the EPA's rulemaking within the Clean Air Act has been subject to numerous lawsuits. Some of the major suits where the Clean Air Act has been focal point of litigation include the following: Train v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 421 U.S. 60 (1975)
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is a United States law, passed by the 94th United States Congress in 1976 and administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that regulates chemicals not regulated by other U.S. federal statutes, [1] including chemicals already in commerce and the introduction of new chemicals.
[footnote omitted] Yet even today, the prospects for cap-and-trade legislation and for U.S. ratification of a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol remain in doubt. [footnote omitted] The notion that Congress, in 1970 or 1977, implicitly authorized EPA to adopt economy-wide, or even industry-specific, controls on CO 2 is ludicrously unfounded ...
The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule follows through on a directive from Congress included in the 2022 climate law. ... EPA sets out rules for proposed 'methane fee' for waste ...
Congress must pass the National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act and try to end the second most common and fastest-growing neurological disease. The EPA just moved to help stop Parkinson's. Now, it's ...
In legislation prior to 1972, Congress had authorized states to develop water quality standards, which would limit discharges from facilities based on the characteristics of individual water bodies. However, those standards were to be developed only for interstate waters, and the science to support that process (i.e. data, methodology) was in ...