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What’s Up With Water – February 22, 2022

Circle of Blue

The last time the UN declared a famine was in South Sudan in 2017. He told Circle of Blue “It really allows us to do monumental overhauling that we’d have to budget for years to do.”. One of four broad spending categories authorized by the act are water infrastructure improvements like those needed by Iberia Parish.

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2023 Master Plan Brings Updates to Coastal Research and Projects

The Energy Law Blog

3] The newest plan boasts several updates since the 2017 draft including an updated project selection process, improved predictive models, and developments of new risk metrics. A total of 61 restoration projects and 12 risk reduction projects were ultimately selected for inclusion in the 2023 plan. [4]

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Communities Turned into Sewage Swamps

Circle of Blue

According to the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) Green Drop Report for 2022 – an audit of all wastewater treatment works in the country for the period July 2020 to June 2021 – Standerton wastewater treatment works is 164% over capacity, achieving an overall score of just 17%, which puts it into the ‘critical risk category.’

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Biden’s Economic Recovery Path: How Budget Reconciliation Plays a Role in Passing $3.5 Trillion in Relief

Arnold Porter

On August 11, 2021, the Senate passed its FY 2022 budget resolution ( S. While presidents have used reconciliation to enact 22 bills since 1980, Democrats have the opportunity this year to use reconciliation twice in the same calendar year[[N: In order for Congress to pass a reconciliation bill, Congress must pass a budget resolution.

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Chesapeake Bay Foundation's 2022 State Of The Bay Score Unchanged, States Must Focus On Agriculture, Stormwater Pollution

PA Environment Daily

CBF scientists compile and examine the best available data and information for 13 indicators in three categories: pollution, habitat, and fisheries. Pollution In the pollution category nitrogen, toxics, and dissolved oxygen indicators were unchanged, the phosphorus indicator improved, and overall water clarity declined.

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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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The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

On March 1, 2021, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals remanded a final Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) rule promulgated in October 2017 that continued and expanded a statutory interim prohibition on diisononyl phthalate (DINP) in children’s toys and child care articles at concentrations greater than 0.1% 14560 (Mar.

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