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An Opportunity to Reduce Water Pollution from Slaughterhouses

Union of Concerned Scientists

Industrial meat and poultry slaughterhouses dump millions of pounds of pollutants into the nation’s waters every year. The federal Clean Water Act directs the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set and enforce the rules that regulate this pollution.

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Fresh, May 16, 2023: New Wisconsin Law Aims to Protect Watersheds From Farm Runoff

Circle of Blue

May 16, 2023 Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. and Canadian mayors and government officials that work to protect waterways.” This independent journalism is supported by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

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ESA Policy News: May 15, 2023

ESA

Lawmakers have introduced different versions of this bill since 2016 but have struggled to agree on a funding source for the bill. Chellie Pingree (D-ME)’s Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act ( H.R. Max Miller (R-OH)’s Advanced Weather Model Computing Development Act ( H.R. This bill provides $1.4 territories.

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ESA Policy News: April 3, 2023

ESA

Congress Senate votes to nullify Clean Water Act rule, Biden is expected to veto the measure. Courts Environmental groups sue the federal government for failing to protect corals. The Biden administration said that rule aims to create a ‘durable’ definition of the Waters of the U.S. Four Democratic Senators, Sens.

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ESA Policy News: February 6, 2023

ESA

Courts Republican-led state sue to block environmental, social and governance retirement investing rule. The $425 million amount would represent a $57 million increase over FY 2023 levels. The United Arab Emirates is set to host the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Conference of Parties 28 (COP 28) in November 2023.

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New U.S. Climate Law Will Make Water Contamination Worse

Circle of Blue

Climate Law Could Make Midwest Water Contamination Worse Billions in clean energy incentives rely on raw materials from polluting corn and livestock. By Keith Schneider Circle of Blue February 8, 2023 President Biden, U.S. In 2016, the U.S. farmland as “the single greatest challenge to our nation’s water quality.”

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Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay

Circle of Blue

And it left Steglitz irritated that he and his staff have to spend so much energy reacting to chemical threats that compromise Ann Arbor’s drinking water. “It’s The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste.