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ESA Policy News: May 30, 2023

ESA

In this issue: Supreme Court dramatically shrinks Clean Water Act’s reach Biden administration must now rework recent Clean Water Act regulations. Congress House Natural Resources Committee passes Save Our Sequoias Act and legislation to allow mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The 5-4 ruling in Sackett v.

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U.S. Supreme Court Issues Major Environmental Decision Narrowing the Scope of the Clean Water Act

The Energy Law Blog

21-454 (May 25, 2023) is a landmark ruling in environmental law interpreting the scope of water bodies covered by the Clean Water Act (CWA) – an issue that has been debated by courts, presidential administrations, and federal agencies for decades. Supreme Court decision in Sackett v. United States , 547 U.S.

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In Celebration Of The Many Contributions Of John Dawes To Protecting And Restoring PA’s Environment, Foundations Create The R. John Dawes Clean Water Fund

PA Environment Daily

In November 2023, conservation and environmental protection leader Deborah Nardone was appointed as the Executive Director of the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds. FPW is a grantmaking foundation that invests in local efforts to protect healthy streams, clean up pollution, and restore degraded wildlife habitat.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

Baiton was at COP27 and is expected to return for COP28, which runs from November 30th until December 12th, 2023. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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Fifth Circuit Applies U.S. Supreme Court’s Sackett Decision to End Long-Standing WOTUS Dispute

The Energy Law Blog

On December 18, 2023, the U.S. As detailed in our prior Sackett blog article , CWA jurisdictional decisions have been plagued by administrative rulings, guidance, and court opinions that attempted to implement the plurality opinion in the Supreme Court’s 2006 Rapanos v. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit applied the U.S.

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Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?

Circle of Blue

This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. Fertilizer runoff from farm fields is not federally regulated, so the EPA’s announcement on January 26 that it would step up enforcement of polluting facilities has little resonance for nitrate contamination.

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The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

Vermont Law

student, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, India August 17, 2023 I. India has been one of the biggest benefactors of this trend, and the 2023 Union Budget , coupled with the “Visit India” regime , reflects the government’s continued commitment to empowering this industry. By Tejaswini Kaushal , B.A.

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