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Catch 22 at the Supreme Court

Legal Planet

In 2011, in AEP v. Section 111 of the Act directs the EPA Administrator to list “categories of stationary sources” that “in [her] judgment. Once EPA lists a category, the agency must establish standards of performance for emission of pollutants from new or modified sources within that category. 410 (2011).

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First District Holds LA’s Water Allocations To Agricultural Lessees Were Authorized Under Existing Leases And Did Not Constitute Or Implement A Separate “Project” Subject to CEQA Review

CEQA Developments

The case provides guidance to practitioners on when and how CEQA applies to public contracts, and also regarding the appropriate contents of the administrative record in CEQA litigation challenging staff level actions implementing existing leases. acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16).

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Michigan’s ‘Very Big Opportunity’ in Infrastructure Windfall

Circle of Blue

As the administrator since 2018 of EGLE’s water infrastructure financing section, the unit that oversees the SRFs in Michigan, Green is in a position to guide decisions that will influence the quality of the state’s water systems as communities look to reverse the decades-long decline in fundamental public works. . More Demand Than Dollars.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017. United States v.

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A Diverse Federal Scientific Workforce Benefits All of Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

At the Union of Concerned Scientists, one of our top priorities is reminding the public—and at times, the government—that a robust workforce of federal scientists is necessary for representing the interests of ordinary people. Chao, was a career federal scientist who served the US Army and then the government for 45 years.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

The price of solar panels and wind turbines has declined 75 percent and 25 percent, respectively, since 2011. [5] Energy Information Administration ("EIA") estimates renewables will be a larger source of electricity than natural gas in the United States by 2050. 5] The U.S. That year, California generated 13.5

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

The ideas of Thomas Malthus (center) were used by British governments to justify the Irish Famine, 1845-1848 (left) and Bengali Famine, 1943-1945 (right) before becoming the basis for 20th Century environmentalism. felt that India, among others, was probably in this category. The Paddocks [the authors of the 1967 book Famine 1975!