Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

The Rundown An EPA proposal to cut mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants would decrease water pollution and accumulation of pollutants in fish. President Biden vetoes a Clean Water Act rollback. An EPA survey of drinking water utilities estimates the number of lead service lines.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

The House Natural Resources Committee tells the Justice Department it should investigate alleged criminal activity from a top Trump administration official. To prevent manatees from dying, an EPA regional administrator says that Florida needs to do more to clean up its waters. Drinking Water Contaminants Review.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It may give the polluted-upon person a right to insist that the government consider the pollution before allowing the polluting facility to operate or before funding the polluting facility, and it may even create an obligation on the part of the government to regulate the existing polluting facility. 2017); Robinson Twp. Envt’l Def.

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Smith Enviorment

JUNE 4, 2021

New natural gas pipelines require a certificate of convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to confirm a legitimate energy need for the project. FERC also regulates interstate pipeline projects for transportation safety purposes. Pipeline construction often requires a Clean Water Act Sec.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The plaintiffs’ complaint asserting National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act, and Rivers and Harbors Act violations included allegations that the U.S. Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to Executive Order on Reducing Regulation. The planned pipeline is to be 162.5 Public Citizen, Inc.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. Regulation Begins.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

An internal House Natural Resources Committee document obtained by E&E News shows that the committee intends to spend $3 billion on the Civilian Climate Corps, $120 million for the NOAA Civilian Conservation Corps and $500 million for the Tribal Civilian Conservation Corps. The House also expects to pass the Senate’s $1.2

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

As a threshold matter, the court found that Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and one of the state petitioners (New York) each had standing based on potential injuries from climate change which were caused in part by HFC emissions and which would be redressed by restrictions on such emissions. Wheeler , No. 18-1172 (D.C.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. Reorganized Peabody Energy Corp. 16-42529 (Bankr.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Circuit erred by “untethering” Section 111(d) standards from the existing source being regulated. Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C.

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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 The fate of the larger budget reconciliation package is unclear, with the Senate shifting its focus to passing the National Defense Reauthorization Act (NDAA). Lawmakers also allocate $9.7

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A wave of frontline resistance is now breaking across the Upper Midwest and around the country as organized campaigns aimed at regulating concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs, are being felt at every level of government, and in state and federal courts. to issue new rules that limit discharges of CAFO wastes into waters.

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ESA

JULY 26, 2021

Senators reintroduce Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. Judge rules Maui County, Hawaii must receive a Clean Water Act permit in a case that reached the Supreme Court. Nominations: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted 10-10 to advance Tracy Stone-Manning’s nomination to the full Senate.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In the chapter on climate change, the CEI calls for Congress to repeal or defund virtually every federal effort enacted by Obama to target climate change, ranging from the ability of the EPA to regulate CO. as a pollutant at all to the Clean Power Plan, which has no chance of clemency before its swift execution at some point in 2017. [14].

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The House Natural Resources Committee and the House Science Committee passed their portions of the reconciliation bill out of committee Sept. The House Natural Resources Committee intends to spend $3 billion on the Civilian Climate Corps, divided among the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In this issue: Congressional Leadership Releases Committee Rosters House Science Committee, House Natural Resources and other committees fill out leadership rosters and add freshmen members for the 118th Congress. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) announced the committee leadership.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

Regulation, Litigation – Bloomberg Law. Energy and Natural Resources. Top Priorities : Clean Energy Payment Program; Energy Department climate research; consumer rebates to weatherize and electrify homes; financing for domestic manufacturing of clean energy and auto supply chain technologies. Chair : Sen.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Even when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate in 2017 and 2018, Congress largely rejected these steep cuts. House Natural Resources Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal introduced the Extinction Prevention Act ( H.R. ESA and other scientific societies opposed this regulation.

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