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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

EPA unveiled a proposed rule that would take the Navigable Waters Protection Rule off the books and reinstate long-standing regulations defining which streams and wetlands are subject to federal protection, a category known as “Waters of the U.S.,” or WOTUS. “In United States. 2225 ) this past summer. 1466 ) in the Senate.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

The agenda notes DOE is preparing a major rulemaking to reduce the use of fossil fuels in federal buildings — an implementation of a 2007 law. She faced criticism from Republicans for her past advocacy with the Montana Wildlife Foundation and her support for former Governor Steve Bullock (D-MT) in his run to unseat Sen.

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N.C. Water Quality Legislation (2023)

Smith Enviorment

Constitution, the legislature adopts the laws under which state agencies operate, but responsibility for implementing those laws rests with executive branch agencies like DEQ. This session, the legislature amended the animal waste system permitting law, G.S. Under the N.C. See: House Bill 600, Sec. 9) STORMWATER. Amends G.S.

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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 leases divided the acreage into “dry” lease and “irrigated” lease categories, stating that “water supplies to all land classified for leased irrigation (alfalfa and pasture) will be delivered in an amount not to exceed five (5) acre-feet per acre per irrigation season.” acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16).

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

ESA

The agency determines that drought associated with climate change has worsened habitat conditions for the Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly. ESA and other science societies have supported the 2015 definition of WOTUS that is based in sound science including endorsing an amicus brief in a former court case. United States. .

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

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