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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

Greenbuilding Law

The new laws compiled below add to that already very green environmental regulatory scheme. Savvy players in the environmental industrial complex and associated industries will find business opportunities to lead and profit in environmental matters, including opportunities advantaged by these newly enacted laws.

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outdated solid waste management plan brings controversy to Dalton

BCM Environmental Land Law

Conservation Law Foundation ( CLF ) argues that the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) has not updated their solid waste management plan since 2003 although laws require updates every six years to keep up with the evolution of practices, technology, and alternatives to land-filling.

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DEP Outlines 2022 Priorities: Make Up Deficit In Oil & Gas Funding; Get Resources Needed To Invest New Federal Mine Reclamation, Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funds

PA Environment Daily

Since 2003, General Fund support for environmental programs in DEP have been cut about 40 percent and as a result staffing was reduced by nearly 30 percent, especially in water quality protection programs. In 2010, Gov. Rendell actually bragged about the fact General Fund monies for DEP were below 1994-95 appropriations. Read more here.]

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Unsafe Yield

Circle of Blue

It also established a new state agency, the Arizona Department of Water Resources, to administer the law. . The law set a 1995 deadline for the Arizona Department of Water Resources to promulgate rules to meet the requirement. . billion wastewater recycling plant capable of producing 168,000 acre-feet annually.

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Rising Demand for Man Made Diamonds is ESG Personified

Greenbuilding Law

In contrast, man made diamonds are created in a laboratory type setting increasingly using renewable energy sources and recycled materials, which literally and figuratively significantly reduce their carbon footprint. Diamonds are pure carbon and mined diamonds take millions of years of exposure to pressure and heat to form (.

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Budget Briefing: Senate, House Budget Hearings Should Talk About Once-In-A-Generation Investments In Cleaning Up The Environment; Oil & Gas Program At A Crossroads

PA Environment Daily

These proposals will help Pennsylvania meet water quality cleanup goals statewide and especially in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. -- Bipartisan Infrastructure Law - Mine Reclamation: Thanks to the passage of the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Pennsylvania is in line to receive an estimated $3.8 Read more here.] Read more here.]

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The Chemical Compound—December 2021

Arnold Porter

In addition, the infrastructure law provides $100 million for the Pollution Prevention Act grants to states for programs to promote businesses’ use of source reduction techniques. The partial exemption petition process was created by a 2003 rulemaking for the Inventory Update Rule, the predecessor to the CDR Rule. California.

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