Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

143-215.10C, to require a groundwater compliance boundary at animal operations: “[animal operations] shall have a compliance boundary as may be established by rule or permit for various categories of animal waste management systems and beyond which groundwater quality standards may not be exceeded.” House Bill 600, Sec.

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2023 Clean Water Act Waste Law 52

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The court rejected the argument that claims against the original and 2012 versions of the LCFS were moot, noting that these earlier versions affected how credits were calculated under the 2015 version. The proposed project involves construction of three new water intakes to divert water from the Sacramento River.

2017 40

2017 Clean Air Act Climate Change Renewable Energy 40

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plans and a combined $19.4 million acres of critical habitat for the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest. The new final rule removes around 200,000 acres of critical habitat.

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2021 Conservation Endangered Species Act Climate Change 105

ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

US Fish and Wildlife Service reverses Endangered Species Act rules. 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. Executive Branch. International. Steve Daines (R-MT).

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2021 Endangered Species Act Ocean Climate Change 98

ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

This proposed rule contrasts the Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2004 and 2009 determinations that the species did not warrant protections. The agency determines that drought associated with climate change has worsened habitat conditions for the Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly. The report finds that the U.S.

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2022 Climate Change Clean Water Act Ozone 52