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

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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. Eleven riparian conservation projects in Michigan will receive $1.7 million from the state Department of Natural Resources.

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FRESH, March 7, 2023: EPA Proposes Considering Tribal Treaty Rights in Water Quality Standards

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March 7, 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. The post FRESH, March 7, 2023: EPA Proposes Considering Tribal Treaty Rights in Water Quality Standards appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Lehigh Valley Watershed Conference At Lehigh University On March 14

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The conference serves as a forum that brings together community watershed organizations, municipal officials, educators, students, scientists, technical experts, natural resource agency staff, industry representatives, and the public to discuss effective ways to improve and protect land and water resources throughout the greater Lehigh Valley.

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Guest Essay: Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Celebrates 5 Million Trees Planted

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By Cindy Adams Dunn, Secretary of DCNR In 2018 at the Lancaster County farm for the kickoff of the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership , I remember thinking about what an ambitious challenge planting that many trees would be and how important reaching that goal is for clean rivers and streams in Pennsylvania. How Clean Is Your Stream?

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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Conservation: The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act ( S. billion annually to state and tribal fish and wildlife agencies for conservation and the implementation of state wildlife action plans. Reconciliation: The Build Back Better Act ( H.R.

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

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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

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The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. Paul Stowe is its natural resources manager. Wetlands that filter water draining from creeks into the lake are removing 90 percent of the phosphorus, she said. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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