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California Wins Major Clean Air Act/Climate Change Case in D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

But that changed dramatically in 2006, after the California Air Resources Board adopted the world’s first regulatory limits on GHG emissions from motor vehicles. In 2006, President George W. A bit of CAA history is needed to understand this litigation and its profound legal and policy implications. EPA decision.)

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The President and Congress Deliver $11 Billion for Abandoned Mine Cleanups

Circle of Blue

In 2021, the Biden administration and Congress responded to the deficit. The infrastructure act’s use of taxpayer dollars to finance the AML fund marks an abandonment of the intention of the mine cleanup law. The original law made coal companies pay for the industry’s past environmental harms. A regular tug-of-war ensued.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The bill repeals section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. By Annie Snider, PoliticoPro, 11/18/2021. In this issue: Apply for the 2022 Katherine S. Applications are due Dec.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. But in nearly every instance, Rose listened politely, refrained from challenging Tillerson on the facts, and went on to his next question. “I’m And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions. Previously, its reports included grants of $5,000 or more. billion respectively.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. from Villanova University School of Law.

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A Trip Down Memory “Train”: A Brief History of Public Transit

Union of Concerned Scientists

This led to an unfair distribution of funds until the FTA’s tribal transit program was implemented in 2006 with a direct funding and application route to the federal government. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021 and was the most recent time Congress made significant changes to transit funding and policy.

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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

Circle of Blue

They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . “If pounds in 2006. Confrontation on New Permit. They are happening, though.