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Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional

National Law Center

The plaintiff in the case was a limited liability company that owned 1,075 acres of farmland in Iowa, including nine acres that were designated as “wetland” by USDA in 2010 prior to the plaintiff’s purchase of the land. Iowa, May 29, 2025) was initially filed by a landowner in Iowa on April 16, 2024.

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One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Nutrition Title

National Law Center

For example, reconciliation was used to pass the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, and the Inflation Reduction Act in 2021. Because of this, reconciliation is most often used to pass partisan policy priorities when one party has a majority in both chambers of Congress and the White House.

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Challenge to California’s Hen Housing Laws

National Law Center

In 2010, the California legislature followed with AB 1437 , a law that imposes those Prop 2 living conditions on egg producers in any other state or country that intended to sell their products in the state of California.

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Climate Attribution and the Willow Project: Federal Obligations to Evaluate the Effects of Fossil Fuel Leasing on Endangered Species

Law Columbia

There is also research on the adverse effects of sea ice loss on seals and other ice-dependent species. Thus, there is a clear causal connection between the emissions attributable to the Willow project, sea ice loss, and adverse effects on species. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al. 2018) ; Tartu et al.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

Scientific provisions in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee bill is largely similar to the House bill: The Fish and Wildlife Service receives $200 million for Endangered Species Act recovery plans and $9.7 In 2010, 11,319 people earned a doctorate in the life sciences.

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Using Attribution Science to Evaluate the Effects of Oil and Gas Emissions on Endangered and Threatened Species

Law Columbia

Bernhardt’s reasoning was that it would be impossible to establish the requisite causal link between GHG emissions, global climate change, and specific localized effects on species and their habitat due to the “complex and independent processes active in the atmosphere and the ocean acting on GHGs.” See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3

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ESA Policy News: December 5, 2022

ESA

The US Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior and the heads of the US Forest Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the US Agency for International Development would serve as ex-oficio members of the foundation’s board. NOAA NMFS – Listing the Queen Conch as Threatened Under the Endangered Species Act .