Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

The standard includes 15 categories of Scope 3 emissions, such as transportation and distribution of products, employee travel, and use of commercial products. IPIECA’s methodology —coauthored by the American Petroleum Institute, the biggest US oil and gas industry trade organization—is comprised of several Scope 3 emissions categories.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

HHS will further define the IDR process via upcoming regulation. Parties likely to engage in this process regularly will need to budget for these new expenses. After the IDR arbitrator reaches a decision, the plan has 30 days to make payment on the bill (if applicable). You’re Out: Blocked for 90 Days.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

CBF scientists compile and examine the best available data and information for 13 indicators in three categories: pollution, habitat, and fisheries. Pollution In the pollution category nitrogen, toxics, and dissolved oxygen indicators were unchanged, the phosphorus indicator improved, and overall water clarity declined.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2023

As part of this action, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed updates to Circular A-4 , a bedrock guidance document, which will greatly improve how federal agencies account for the benefits and costs of their actions and therefore better serve the public interest.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 22, 2021

Federal agencies could prepare programmatic environmental impact statements (EIS’s) for categories of CCS projects, for example, which would allow much shorter and faster environmental assessments on a project-specific basis. In addition, the Biden-Harris’ FY 2022 discretionary budget request includes $46.1

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The first step in that process was for the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (Task Force) to issue guidance approved by the Director of the Office of Management & Budget (OMB). Applicability. Vaccine Mandate v. masking and social distancing) are workplace-specific. Safeguards. Each is discussed in turn.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are now heavily regulated since it was discovered how much their release was damaging the ozone layer - the gas level protecting the planet from the sun's most harmful rays. Deforestation. It's a vast, complex and vital ecosystem. Paleoclimatology.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

The Trump EPA had invoked the major questions doctrine and the Agency’s past interpretation of technology-based standards under section 111 of the Clean Air to find that EPA could not rely upon switching methods of power generation to establish an emissions reduction budget under a cap-and-trade program.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Shapiro’s Proposed 2024-25 Budget Includes DEP Permit Modernization Initiative, Expands PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Testing; Expands DCNR Trails Program, PA Outdoor Corp [PaEN] -- DCNR Blog: Gov. 27 to Feb. 9 - More Abandoned Conventional, Shale Gas Wells; Spills, Venting Gas, Contaminated Water Supplies [PaEN] -- Gov.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 25, 2022

The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates packaged drinks, lowered the current standard that ranges between 0.8 The Office of Management and Budget released guidelines for using American-made products in projects funded by the federal infrastructure bill. 2023 Budget Hearings. By the Numbers. milligrams per liter.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

It then discusses the potential to use a cap-and-invest approach to mitigate GHG emissions from transportation in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic and addresses two key policy considerations: the type of fuels to be covered and the point of regulation. budget trading programs implemented in each participating state. allowance auctions.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

The visits came as Congressional appropriations committees are starting work on the FY 2024 budget. Planning requires the expertise of ecologists, landscape architects, environmental planners, and environmental engineers, and can be incentivized by local regulations. Not Everyone Is on Board. – and qualify for a green card.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2021

The Office of Management and Budget will look into financial reporting and accounting standards that integrate climate risk. Part two is about regulations. The forecast is for three to five major hurricanes, those with wind speeds above 111 miles per hour that are rated category 3, 4, or 5.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. EPA Denied Petitions Seeking TSCA Regulation of Chemicals in Cigarettes and Cosmetics.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS.

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Brag

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (the Lautenberg Act) comprehensively amended TSCA, “including key reforms to increase EPA’s authority to mandate testing, require EPA to make affirmative decisions about the safety of new chemicals, and require the evaluation, and where merited, the regulation of existing chemicals.”

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ESA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The House bill authorizes annual budget increases for the Office of Science, reaching $11.1 EPA – Environmental Justice Considerations for the Development of the Proposed Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) National Primary Drinking Water Regulation Public Meeting (March 2). billion in fiscal year (FY) 2026.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. Second, we saw this trend of regulations, which do generally provide a degree of safety for the public, but there's a common misconception that they are truly health-protective; they are not.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

The court rejected Berkeley’s jurisdictional grounds for dismissal (standing and ripeness) but found that the association failed to demonstrate that EPCA expressly preempted Berkeley’s ordinance because the ordinance “does not directly regulate either energy use or energy efficiency of covered appliances.”

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In addition, the cities argued that the questions were not “certworthy” because they “arise in only a tiny category of cases” and because the petition was a “poor vehicle” to review the questions since there had been no final determination on the jurisdictional issue raised. Chevron Corp.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The current administration's efforts to issue a new climate guidance document will be complicated by a last minute Trump regulation establishing new procedures for issuance of agency guidance. How Will the Trump Administration's Revisions to NEPA's Implementing Regulations Affect CEQ's Efforts to Issue New Climate Guidance? N:40 C.F.R.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The fate of the larger budget reconciliation package is unclear, with the Senate shifting its focus to passing the National Defense Reauthorization Act (NDAA). ESC – Recommendation to the White House Office of Management and Budget for FY 2023 Budget (Nov. or WOTUS. “In United States. Comments received by Dec. 13, 2021.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

They would prefer to either amend the Senate bill and force a conference to resolve differences with the IIJA, or wait for the House to pass a budget reconciliation bill that could address the more expansive elements of the American Jobs Plan not reflected in the Senate bill. Buy American Regulations.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Senate Race Effectively Tied -- November 2022 General Election -- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Why We Won’t Have Results On Election Night - It Takes Time To Count 1.3 Million Mail-In Ballots - Acting PA Secretary Of State -- Spotlight PA: How Redistricting Could Alter Control Of The Legislature And Other Changes To Watch Nov.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

That executive order established a new employment category for federal employees to create “a greater degree of appointment flexibility with respect to these employees.” Vought ran the Office of Management and Budget in the Trump White House and now runs the Center for Renewing America. The EPA now has a budgeted workforce of 15,115.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

K-12 STEM education and student performance across demographic and socioeconomic categories and geographic regions. ESC – Recommendation to the White House Office of Management and Budget for FY 2023 Budget (Nov. CNSF – Recommendations to the White House Office of Management and Budget for FY 2023 Budget (Nov.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

The directorate’s budget reaches $5 billion in FY 2026. This bill provides annual budget increases of five percent plus inflation to NSF, the Department of Energy Office of Science and the research arms of NASA, the Department of Defense and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. 961 & H.R. 14 & 15). 29 & 30).

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

EPA Chief Gets Hit From All Sides At First Budget Hearing. These Republicans Are Pretty Upset About Trump’s EPA Budget. Trump’s EPA budget cuts hit strong opposition at House panel. Republicans And Democrats Unite Against Scott Pruitt's Heavy Budget Cuts To The EPA. Trump regulators trigger pollution fight.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The EO directs multiple federal agencies to conduct a series of short-term assessments for the four specific product categories, to be completed within 100 days, and at least six longer-term assessments of specific sectors of the US industrial base within one year.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

In this issue: President Biden Releases Full Budget Request. The budget includes $10.17 President Biden Releases Full Budget Request. President Joe Biden released his full President’s Budget Request May 28. The budget request includes $10.17 billion for NSF and $948 million for the Biological Sciences Directorate.

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