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The Sky’s the Limit on Nuclear Weapons Spending, But What Does It Really Get Us?

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a new report on the projected cost of US nuclear weapons over the next ten years, from 2023 to 2032. But the remainder, $62 billion, is attributable to increases in program budget estimates ($49 billion) and the CBO’s estimate of additional costs based on historical cost growth ($13 billion).

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Greening the `European Green Deal´ - Ambitious or Out of Touch?

Energy and Climate Law

Details were published yesterday in a 26-page long Communication (European Commission Communication `Stepping up Europe’s 2030 climate ambition Investing in a climate-neutral future for the benefit of our people´ (Communication) COM (2020) 562 final ). Spending money will be a key component.

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Federal Water Tap, May 24: In Congress, Lawmakers Target Water Debt Relief, Drought Response

Circle of Blue

between 2015 and 2019 that were linked to swimming pools, hot tubs, and other treated recreational waters, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. The Office of Management and Budget will look into financial reporting and accounting standards that integrate climate risk. Geological Study report.

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The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

The plaintiffs argued that there was “no longer a viable dispute” that the organization lacked standing because the individual member had become pregnant in or around December 2020 and feared “the very sort of neurodevelopmental harm that was the focus of Plaintiffs’ trial evidence.” Wheeler, 2020 U.S.

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Policy News: May 28, 2021

ESA

In this issue: President Biden Releases Full Budget Request. The budget includes $10.17 President Biden Releases Full Budget Request. President Joe Biden released his full President’s Budget Request May 28. The budget request includes $10.17 billion for NSF and $948 million for the Biological Sciences Directorate.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

Odds and ends: EPA says it will reconsider a 2020 Trump regulation known as the Major MACT to Area, or MM2A, rule. 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. 21, 2020 ).

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

Vermont Law

emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009. [5]. At the same time, it is estimated that through 2015, RGGI generated approximately $2.9 and that the investment of RGGI allowance auction proceeds in 2015 alone will return $2.31