E.P.A. Describes How It Will Regulate Power Plants

Executive Brief • July 14, 2022 “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180 AD) Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher COVID BA.5: Everything We Know About Highly Transmissible Variant A COVID Omicron sub-variant known as BA.5, which has been referred to as "the worst version of the virus that we've seen," continues to spread around the United States—but it's still unclear just how bad it is. Newsweek Read more... EPA Describes How It Will Regulate Power Plants After Supreme Court Loss "Last week’s ruling took away a major tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Many regulatory options still remain, but the path will be more difficult." Society of Environmental Journalists Read more... Tokyo Raises Covid Alert to Highest Level as Cases Surge Again Tokyo’s Metropolitan Government raised the Covid infection alert for the Japanese capital to its highest level amid a surge in new cases. Bloomberg Read more... Top EHS Practices: Key Components of a Full-Service Safety Program Download the white paper. Safety+Health Magazine Read more... Shanghai Declares Another Rare Extreme Heat Warning For the third time this summer, China's most populous city of Shanghai issued its highest alert for extreme heat as sweltering temperatures repeatedly tested records this week. Reuters Read more... ESG Assurance – An Opportunity For Transparency & Trust Customers, employees and investors are increasingly putting ESG issues front and center when making decisions about the companies they engage with. Rising shareholder and consumer activism, as well as new forms of regulation, mean that it is no longer enough to simply state ambitions or good intentions. NAEM's GreenTie Blog - Sponsored by LRQA Read more... Dead Solar Panels Are About To Become A Lot More Valuable In the coming years, recyclers will hopefully be able to mine billions of dollars worth of materials from discarded solar panels, according to a new analysis published this week. That should ease bottlenecks in the supply chain for solar panels while also making the panels themselves more sustainable. The Verge Read more... U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Have Caused Over $1.8 Trillion In Global Economic Losses, Study Says The U.S. and China, the world’s two greatest greenhouse gas emitters, have each caused global economic losses of more than $1.8 trillion from 1990 to 2014, according to a new Dartmouth College study that connects emissions from individual countries to the economic damage of climate change in others. CNBC Read more... Petition Urges EPA to Address Alleged TCEQ Air Permitting Violations Thirteen organizations, led by environmental advocacy heavy hitters Earthjustice, Environmental Integrity Project, and the Sierra Club, petitioned the EPA on June 28, 2022, urging the Agency “to take action in Texas, where the state’s air permitting program has for years failed to meet public participation and environmental justice obligations under federal environmental and civil rights laws." EHS Daily Advisor Read more... 2022 Webinars Corporate Sustainability Strategy and Reporting: One Company's Turn-Key Advancement Journey August 25, 2022 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. (ET) Both privately held and publicly traded companies alike are working to advance their sustainability journey in the current landscape of new regulations and requirements. This webinar will arm the audience with practical advice toward tackling their own ESG advancement challenges. 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