Posts Tagged: Environmental protection
Plastics News, Conrad MacKerron and Tim Smith, November 20, 2018- Walden Asset Management, in collaboration with As You Sow, recently wrote to the CEOs of nine companies arguing that membership in the Plastics Industry Association supports lobbying for statewide preemption laws that prohibit 70 million Americans in 10 states from …
WKBN News, Amanda Smith, September 25, 2018- Local leaders are still lobbying the state to have more control over fracking brine disposal wells. Hubbard township officials are bitterly opposed to a plan to bring a waste brine disposal well to the township. Brine from Pennsylvania operations would be transported to an area …
Waste 360, Barry Shanoff, September 11, 2018- Filling a judicial seat these days, particularly on the Supreme Court, precipitates ominous forecasts about the transformation of American life for a generation or more. How is it that a single appointment has become so consequential? One reason is that courts insert themselves into …
Next City, Rachel Dovey, August 31, 2018- In June, the Texas Supreme Court upheld a state preemption against city plastic bag bans. But while Austin officials have agreed to play along, they’re also testing out a simple new strategy to eliminate single-use plastic: Appealing to retailers’ better nature. The resolution taken up Thursday by the …
New Jersey News, Dan Alexander, August 28, 2018- Gov. Phil Murphy made his veto of a bill that would have imposed a fee for single use plastic bags official on Monday — which could set the stage for a complete ban. The legislation would have placed a 5-cent fee on …