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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

Smith Enviorment

Executive Order 80 supports the 2015 Paris Agreement and sets several goals for the state to meet by 2025: Reduce state greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2005 levels. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. Increase the number of zero-emission vehicles in the state to 80,000.

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New U.S. Climate Law Will Make Water Contamination Worse

Circle of Blue

Embedded in the new statute are more than $140 billion in direct payments and tax incentives for renewable fuels and cleaner electrical generation to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade. farmland as “the single greatest challenge to our nation’s water quality.”

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Army Corps of Engineers’ motion to hold in abeyance a case challenging the Trump administration’s rules defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. Seven weeks after the U.S. San Francisco Baykeeper v. 20-17367 (9th Cir. The federal district court for the District of Arizona denied EPA and the U.S.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

In August 2017, NYSDEC conditionally denied the developer’s joint application for state law stream disturbance and freshwater wetlands permits, as well as for a water quality certificate pursuant to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, asserting that a recent D.C. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

An Oregon Circuit Court set aside the Oregon Secretary of State’s decision to reject two clean energy ballot initiatives and allowed the measures to be processed and circulated for the November 2020 election. Four environmental organizations filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Columbia challenging the U.S.

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