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The Long Life and Sudden Demise of Federal Wetlands Protection

Legal Planet

EPA , the Court adopts the restrictive Scalia test, which had been rejected by a majority of Justices in the 2006 Rapanos case. President George H.W. Bush promises ‘no net loss of wetlands.” In SWANCC v. Supreme Court strikes down a rule covers any wetland or pond used by migratory birds. In Rapanos v. In Sackett v. Download as PDF

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Fourth District Belatedly Publishes CEQA Opinion Upholding City of Newport Beach’s Approval of Multifamily-Housing Development Pursuant To Addendum To 2006 EIR For Larger Mixed-Use Development

CEQA Developments

Given that the City is fairly built out, there is a dearth of available sites on which to construct multifamily housing, and the City had identified the Center as a possible site for multifamily residential development circa 2006. The project was approved in early 2021 over the objections of one property owner at the Center.

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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2006 AB 32. Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard. AB 1493 (Pavley Act). Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions.

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DEP Secretary Negrin Resigns Effective Dec. 8, On Medical Leave; Jessica Shirley Named Interim Acting Secretary

PA Environment Daily

She also held a Graduate Policy Intern position in the Governor’s Office of Policy and Planning in 2009 and an Undergraduate Policy Intern position in the Department of Public Welfare in 2006. Richard Negrin Richard Negrin served as Acting Secretary of DEP from January 17 until he was confirmed by the Senate on June 27. Read more here.

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Nanocolumnar films: applications in medicine, energy and aerospace

Physics World

He joined CSIC in 2003 and secured a permanent position in 2006. In 2017, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (USA) and in 2020, co-founded the spin-off Nanostine. After obtaining his PhD in physics at UCM (Spain) in 1999, he was a Marie Curie postdoc at Paris-Sud University (France) in 2000–2002.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

By Jim Kossin, Tim Hall, Mike Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke a number of records , with the formation of an unprecedented 30 “named storms” (storms that reach wind-speed intensity of at least 18 m/s and are then given an official name). 2020 ), many others do not. 2021 ; Knutson et al.

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 4)

Clean Energy Law

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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