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DEP Blog: Abandoned Coal Mine Reforestation Initiatives Healing The Land

PA Environment Daily

To comply with the law, mining companies worked to revegetate and reforest the land, but many merely met the letter of the law, meeting the requirements for bond release by planting less than desirable trees and heavy grasses rather than properly revegetating and reforesting the sites.

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Fred Tutman, the Only Black Riverkeeper in the United States, Discusses the Lack of Diversity in the Mainstream Environmental Movement

Vermont Law

Fred Tutman, the Only Black Riverkeeper in the United States, Discusses the Lack of Diversity in the Mainstream Environmental Movement By Cynthia Cane , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 9, 2022 Fred Tuman’s journey to the environmentalism movement was unorthodox, to say the least.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. Sierra Club v.

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Fourth District Addresses Numerous Significant CEQA Issues In Action Challenging City of San Diego’s Utility Undergrounding Projects

CEQA Developments

The Council would thereafter create an “Underground Utility District” for the selected blocks to be completed with the year’s funding; residents/owners within the district would be mailed a notice of public hearing and a map so they could comment prior to Council’s approval of creation of the district. City of Lodi (2006) 144 Cal.App.4th

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

ESA

However, Environment and Public Works Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) has expressed concerns that the revenues from environmental penalties are unreliable. This proposed rule contrasts the Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2004 and 2009 determinations that the species did not warrant protections. United States. . The report finds that the U.S.

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