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outdated solid waste management plan brings controversy to Dalton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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Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation

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It’s been building and building,” said Rob Michaels, an attorney for the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), a Chicago-based legal group, who is working to limit CAFO manure discharges in Ohio and Michigan. to issue new rules that limit discharges of CAFO wastes into waters. It’s now being raised as a political issue.

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

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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. Until July 1, 2024, 7.75

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Farms in Six Southeast Michigan Counties Are Major Sources of Lake Erie Toxic Blooms

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The tide of waste was generated by animals from 132 CAFOs in Indiana and Ohio. The report also pitched liquid manure to the top of the list of causes of the harmful algal blooms that have inundated the big lake every summer since 2003. A study by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and the Washington, D.C.-based

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

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded Law and policy treat farms as special class of polluter. clean water statute, though, give farmers and their wastes special treatment. While Bakerlads Farm is recognized as more careful with its wastes than many CAFO operators, its practices are not foolproof.