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What’s Up With Water – February 22, 2022

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The last time the UN declared a famine was in South Sudan in 2017. One of four broad spending categories authorized by the act are water infrastructure improvements like those needed by Iberia Parish. In the last two years it’s been hit by Category 4 hurricanes Laura and Ida. But warning bells are again ringing.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). filed June 9, 2017).

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 2)

Clean Energy Law

AB 32 authorized CARB to adopt a market-based compliance mechanism with “declining annual aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gas emissions” through 2020. The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program.

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‘A Tsunami of Human Waste’: Half of South Africa’s Sewage Treatment Works Are Failing, Says Report

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The report notes, “The effluent quality must comply to 90% [in total] with the authorised limits for the respective categories.”. Five of the 22 Green Drop award winners fall into the NMR category, meaning they are exempt from certain effluent quality indicators. Photo © Peter Luhanga / CCIJ. Chemicals of emerging concern.

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

Arnold Porter

108- 27); Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (P.L. which was President Biden’s first major legislative vehicle providing relief to Americans in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the current Congress, this means Democrats can advance legislative priorities that are budgetary in nature without Republican support. 115-97).]]

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Communities Turned into Sewage Swamps

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

PA Environment Daily

With many new leaders taking charge – EPA administrators, governors, legislators, and within environmental organizations – we have an opportunity to prove that restoring clean water is possible. CBF scientists compile and examine the best available data and information for 13 indicators in three categories: pollution, habitat, and fisheries.

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