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ESA Policy News: May 15, 2023

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Federal Register Apply for a Badge to Attend COP28 as an Observer via ESA ESA is accepting expressions of interest from members to receive an ESA “observer status” badge to attend the Conference of Parties (COP) 28 Climate Change Conference, which will take place from Nov. 12 at the Expo City Dubai, UAE. All Senate Republicans and Sen.

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The US Supreme Court is Operating Like a Rogue EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

Globally, fine particulate pollution and ozone are tied to more than 8 million deaths each year according to a 2023 study in the British Medical Journal. The majority also seems utterly disinterested in the fact that a solid majority of people in this country want action on climate change and pollution.

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ESA Policy News: March 6, 2023

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In this issue: Comment Period for the National Nature Assessment Closes March 31, 2023 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy leaders appeal for input from ecologists in a Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment editorial. Global Change Research Program, this report will assess the state of the U.S.’s Led by the U.S.

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The Supreme Court’s Top-10 Environmental Law Decisions

Legal Planet

This is the case that put teeth into the Endangered Species Act. Resisting the pleas that saving a minor species of fish was not worth halting a dam project, the Court held that the statute meant what it said: protecting endangered species is a paramount value. 1322 (2023) (Justice Alito). Michigan v.

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ESA Policy News: March 20, 2023

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ESA Selects 2023 Graduate Student Policy Award Fifteen ESA members will travel to DC to receive policy and communications training and meet with policymakers on Capitol Hill. States Texas State Board of Education issues guidance encouraging schools to emphasize the “positive” aspects of climate change in textbooks. million, $44.8

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ESA Policy News: April 17, 2023

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Shortly after Biden’s veto, a federal judge in North Dakota halted the implementation of Biden’s new Clean Water Act rule in 24 states, writing that a pending Supreme Court case is likely to change the authority of the federal government under the Clean Water Act. EPA case by early summer 2023.

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ESA Policy News: April 3, 2023

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Courts Environmental groups sue the federal government for failing to protect corals. International UN General Assembly requests an advisory ruling from the International Court of Justice to clarify the legal obligations of countries to address climate change.

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