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Third District Addresses Significant CEQA Issues In Mixed Decision On Placer County’s EIR For Specific Plan/Rezoning Allowing Development of Martis Valley Timberlands

CEQA Developments

The widening was approved as a policy matter in 2003 when County approved the MVCP, the EIR for which stated that there would be a separate environmental study in the future if and when Caltrans moved forward with the project. a)(1)(D)), the Court found no prejudicial error.

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

Greenbuilding Law

As such, the bill retroactively allows qualified conservation that was completed in a forest mitigation bank on or before December 31, 2020, to be used, under both State and local forest conservation programs. A person exercising this right to intervene must act in accordance with applicable practices, procedures, and laws in the State.

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

Corp Watch

USA: Coca-Cola plant employees protest, demanding better health care agreement in midst of pandemic Roxanne Elias | WTOL 11 | November 3, 2020 Workers at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in north Toledo are on strike, already planning for the days ahead after they walked off the job just after midnight Sunday.

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The Chemical Compound—December 2021

Arnold Porter

EPA Revised Mercury Inventory Reporting Rule in Response to 2020 Second Circuit Decision. EPA Revised Mercury Inventory Reporting Rule in Response to 2020 Second Circuit Decision. N: Memorandum from Director, Pollution Control & Clean Up Directorate, EPA Office of Inspector Gen., N:Asbestos Disease Awareness Org.

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Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation

Circle of Blue

CAFOs, though, are the only industrial polluting facilities not required to treat their wastes. The federal waiver for treating CAFO wastes dramatically reduces pollution control and operating costs. A study by the American Farm Bureau Federation found that from 2011 to 2020 Wisconsin led the nation in farm bankruptcies.