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

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million from the state Department of Natural Resources. Ohio residents, fearing their drinking water will be contaminated by increasing amounts of fracking waste, are standing up to oil companies and injection-well owners. and Canadian mayors and government officials that work to protect waterways.”

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

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A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. Six months later the U.S.

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Federal Water Tap, May 24: In Congress, Lawmakers Target Water Debt Relief, Drought Response

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The executive order requires a broad range of actions that target both public and private assets as well as government programs. Water Bills in Congress. A sampling: The Water Debt Relief Act would authorize $4 billion for reducing residential customers’ past-due water bills. Clean Water Act Compliance.

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Will the 30 x 30 Initiative Protect 30% of Freshwaters by 2030?

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lands and water and 30 percent of U.S. ocean areas by 2030. The order proclaims an “all of government” approach to strengthening climate resilience and biodiversity while promoting environmental justice and economic growth. This is not to say that change will be easy, but change is imperative.

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ESA Policy News: April 17, 2023

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The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. Congress Clean Water Act: President Joe Biden vetoed a Congressional Review Act measure that would have nullified the administration’s most recent Clean Water Act rule, which seeks to define the “Water of the U.S.”

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ESA Policy News: March 6, 2023

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Congress House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee votes to nullify Clean Water Act rule using the Congressional Review Act. Executive Branch USFWS proposes listing two populations of California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. States Washington state holds carbon allowance auction.

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ESA Policy News: April 3, 2023

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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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