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Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Justice Alito has displayed similar cynicism about water protection.

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The Supreme Court Ruled Against Wetlands in 2023. We Can Still Save Them.

Union of Concerned Scientists

2023 was a rough year for clean water. The Supreme Court took a hammer to the Clean Water Act with its decision in Sackett v. The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us.

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ESA Policy News: January 9, 2023

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trillion government spending bill for fiscal year (FY) 2023 Dec. 29, keeping the government funded through the end of September 2023 and providing increases to most ecologically relevant science agencies. Appropriators increase the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget $6.2 President Joe Biden signed a $1.7

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 The bill includes the Senate’s drinking water infrastructure reauthorization bill ( S. The Biden administration moved Thursday to formally repeal the Trump administration’s controversial rule that vastly restricted the scope of Clean Water Act protections.

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Policy News: March 28, 2022

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Request proposes increasing non-defense discretionary spending and spending on climate and clean energy across the government. Innovation and Competition Act to conference committee. President Joe Biden released the federal government budget request today, March 28. In this issue: Biden Releases Budget Request.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

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In addition, the agency expects to propose an updated rule governing the venting and flaring of methane pollution from onshore oil and gas leases in October but did not estimate when it would finish work on that regulation. 20 executive order that called for a review of energy and environment-related rules across the federal government.

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Policy News: September 26, 2022

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Appropriations: Congress is working this week to pass a short-term spending deal to keep the government open after the end of the fiscal year Sept. House: The full House passed the Preventing a Patronage System Act ( H.R. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) introduced the Save Our Sequoias Act ( S.

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