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Lake Erie’s Failed Algae Strategy Hurts Poor Communities the Most

Circle of Blue

But this is a city where 20 percent of residents report “often” or “always” reducing their spending on basic needs to afford their water bill. Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent.

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

Greenbuilding Law

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. A person who violates the prohibition against knowingly and intentionally releasing, or causing to be released, a balloon into the atmosphere must watch a re-educational video and/or perform community service.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

In 2010, 11,319 people earned a doctorate in the life sciences. The number of earned doctorates awarded is increased in the geosciences, atmospheric sciences and ocean sciences from 862 degrees in 2010 to 1,243 degrees in 2020. EPA – Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Water Act.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

The court said that having remanded to the Corps for consultation under the Endangered Species Act, it was not necessary to determine whether the Corps “made a fully informed and well-considered decision” under NEPA and the Clean Water Act.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court said the trade group had satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending judicial review and stayed the rule “insofar as it purports to regulate trailers.” Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act. The plaintiffs contended that the U.S.

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ESA Policy News: January 9, 2023

ESA

Biden administration releases fall 2022 Unified Agenda, previewing regulations to come. The EPA’s Geographic Programs budget, which funds the restoration of nationally significant bodies of water, such as the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay, is increased to $681.7 The EPA announced a new Clean Water Rule in Dec.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 The bill includes the Senate’s drinking water infrastructure reauthorization bill ( S. The pact recognizes that world’s countries would need to reduce global carbon emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 levels to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. or WOTUS. “In

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