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Chesapeake Bay Foundation Selects Hilary Harp Falk As New President & CEO

PA Environment Daily

Previously, Falk held the position of NWF Vice President for Regional Conservation, where she was responsible for leading the organization’s seven regional offices with a focus on regional growth and strategic plan implementation. Falk is a champion for women’s leadership and advancing equity in the conservation movement.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Conservation : The preservation or restoration of a natural environment for the social, ecological, or even economical benefit. For example, a program of river conservation will increase biodiversity while making the surrounding environment and people who live there healthier.

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

Greenbuilding Law

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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Federal Water Tap, October 3: Supreme Court Hears Key Clean Water Act Case

Circle of Blue

Supreme Court begins its October term today with a wetlands lawsuit that could redefine the Clean Water Act. Tribes tell the Bureau of Reclamation to prioritize long-term infrastructure solutions for the $4 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funds for western drought response. It was the worst output since 2001.

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Trump’s Wall: Adios to Environmental Law?

Vermont Law

It includes NEPA, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and CERCLA, to name but a few. Since 2001, the waiver provision has been enacted five times, to exclude action from environmental statutes. The scope of the waiver asserted in the August 2017 determination is truly breathtaking.

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The Supreme Court Ruled Against Wetlands in 2023. We Can Still Save Them.

Union of Concerned Scientists

2023 was a rough year for clean water. The Supreme Court took a hammer to the Clean Water Act with its decision in Sackett v. The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us. In response, 27 states sued , and the rule was put on hold.

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

The bill also would establish a grant program under the Safe Drinking Water Act for assistance to community water systems affected by PFAS to pay for capital costs associated with treatment technologies. The House bill ( H.R. 20, 2021).]]

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