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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5

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Starting with a Messy Slate: The Role of Environmental Law in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake

Vermont Law

Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and economic infrastructure. Deforestation, air and water pollution, and lack of sanitation systems have led to public health problems and resource scarcity.

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Bay Journal: States/EPA Agree To New Plan For More Nutrient, Sediment Reductions In Chesapeake Bay Watershed To Make Up For Conowingo Dam

PA Environment Daily

By Karl Blankenship, Chesapeake Bay Journal It has taken more than four years, but leaders in the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort say they’ve found a path forward for dealing with the added pollution stemming from Conowingo Dam. That would greatly increase the cost because it would force actions in places where they would be less effective.

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Fifth Circuit Vacates EPA’s Disapproval of the Texas Flexible Permits Program

The Energy Law Blog

To determine the amount of the emissions cap, the state agency (Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, which later became the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”)) would first determine the corresponding emissions from each emissions unit under the cap if it had pollution controls at the BACT level.

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

Greenbuilding Law

House Bill 991 responds modifying the definition of “forest mitigation banking” to be the intentional restoration, creation, or qualified conservation of forests undertaken expressly for the purpose of providing credits for afforestation or reforestation requirements with enhanced environmental benefits from future activities.

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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

Circle of Blue

The largest man-made lake in Ohio experienced a ruinous bloom in 2010 caused by phosphorus draining from 135 dairy, swine, poultry and crop farms into its 60,000-acre watershed. . billion to be spent on farmland conservation programs. The target of the 10-year-old campaign is broad, shallow Grand Lake St. Help could be on the way.

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

For example, 2010 soil data are likely to still represent conditions whereas 2010 groundwater data may not. Congress toyed with water pollution control since 1948, but 2 years after Earth Day it passed the first comprehensive federal law, ever, to control water pollution, the 1972 Clean Water Act.