Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
” In 2023, the Supreme Court ended fifty years of broad federal protection to wetlands in Sackett v. A footnote explains that this category includes “”all other waters of the United States that could be regulated under the federal government’s Constitutional powers to regulate and protect interstate commerce.”
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 3, 2024
2023 was a rough year for clean water. Former EPA Administrator Carol Browner denounced the Sackett decision as “a major blow to the landmark Clean Water Act and the federal government’s ability to protect our people from pollution and its negative health side effects.” million acres of wetlands.
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Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
2006 AB 32. 2023 SB 253. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). AB 1493 (Pavley Act). Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. states and even internationally.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 9, 2024
The act does not commit the United States government to defend Taiwan, but allows for military aid to the ROC government it can use to maintain a military capacity to defend itself. A Taiwan contingency, Abe said, is a Japan contingency, reiterating a phrase he first coined in 2006. What does the public want?
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 21, 2024
For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.
PA Environment Daily
MAY 17, 2024
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. Minott's work emphasizes the importance of public policy.
ESA
JANUARY 9, 2023
Fiscal Year 2023 Spending Bill Increases Funding for Environmental and Scientific Programs. The formal deadline to submit comments about shaping the NNA to OSTP is March 31, 2023. Fiscal Year 2023 Spending Bill Increases Funding for Environmental and Scientific Programs. Register here. Biden Finalizes “Waters of US” Rule.
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