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How Do Californians Perceive Climate Risks to Their Household Water Supplies?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. New supply projects and conservation or demand management programs are examples of the type of adaptation projects that could strain water systems and state budgets. Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth.

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Recap of 2023 CEQA Amendments Now In Effect

CEQA Developments

We saw a continued focus on incentivizing affordable and infill developments on the condition that the project pay prevailing wages (AB 2011), reducing barriers for specified sustainable transit projects (SB 922), and amendments akin to “pet project exemptions” that are targeted to solving a narrower set of concerns (SB 118 and SB 886).

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Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sector: A Cap-and-Invest Approach

Vermont Law

budget trading programs implemented in each participating state. budget trading program limits emissions of CO. The report breaks down these investments into four categories. emissions from the electricity generation sector. [21]. RGGI is composed of individual CO. Through independent regulations, each state’s CO.

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The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

Solicitation for data on the presence and treatment of PFAS in wastewater discharges : On March 17, 2021, EPA published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking seeking information and data regarding discharges of PFAS from industrial facilities in the Organic Chemicals, Plastics, and Synthetic Fibers point source category.[[N: 14560 (Mar.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

After concluding in 2011 that listing of the Pacific walrus was warranted due to threats that included sea-ice loss through 2100, the FWS issued a final decision in October 2017 that the Pacific walrus no longer qualified as a threatened species. Chevron Corp.

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Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

PA Environment Daily

So let me provide some examples, starting with the General Assembly's use of its power to legislate, and its power over the state budget. He created the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission in 2011. In an attempt to attract more economic benefits, policies were created to satisfy [natural] gas companies, and not to protect residents.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

It changed long-time agency policy to allow major sources of pollution to reclassify as area sources, a category with fewer regulatory requirements, once their emissions fell below a certain threshold. What You Need to Know About Biden’s Budget Release – PoliticoPro. The court determined that the U.S. The Everglades are dying.

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