Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

government announced $150 million to support climate adaptation in Africa. Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed settlement in a lawsuit over Lake Erie nutrient pollution, a move that would set binding deadlines for state and federal agencies to set pollution limits for the lake. government water policy.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

December 27, 2019. A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. The statutes do not require direct notice to either the local government or to owners of property along the affected shoreline. Section 3 amends the law governing how the N.C. 113-202 (bottom leases) and G.S.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On October 1, 2019, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied fossil fuel companies’ motion for a stay pending their appeal of the district court order remanding Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against the companies to state court. Pursuant to a consent order, the remand order will not be entered until October 10, 2019.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 31, 2022

She then found that the government had violated NEPA by failing to take a hard look at the environmental consequences. Because she’s been on the Court of Appeals for such a short time, her environmental rulings have all been on the trial bench. Apart from this, her main environmental ruling was in a CEQA case.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

In 2019, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an explosive story revealing a seemingly unusual number of Ewing sarcoma cases among youths in the heart of Southwest Pennsylvania’s oil and gas country. The radioactive element radium is brought to the surface in copious amounts in the oil and gas industry’s produced water.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This anticipated spending provides significant opportunities for government contractors. But companies seeking government contracts should be aware that there is a new cop walking this beat. For example, concrete is an essential component of many construction projects, including road and bridge projects managed by government agencies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Toxicology Program, and the International Association of Research on Cancer classify EtO as a substance that can cause certain cancers. What is our government doing to keep us safe from harm? What are the health impacts associated with breathing it?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

Construction of the pipeline, which spanned through Washington, Allegheny and Beaver Counties, began in January 2019 and brings ethane feedstock from natural gas to the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County. [In Construction of the pipeline, which spanned through Washington, Allegheny and Beaver Counties, began in January 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

Last year, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which authorizes sweeping investments and policies to tackle the climate crisis and advance environmental justice. There are also a number of other programs under the IRA that are intended to alleviate environmental injustice.

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Manning Law

JUNE 11, 2020

a fuel supplier based in Western Canada, was fined $200,000 in the Provincial Court of British Columbia after pleading guilty on June 17, 2019, to five counts of transferring petroleum products into a storage-tank system where storage-tank-system identification numbers were not visible. The Regulatory Framework.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

Camera Bartolotta (R-Washington) circulated a cosponsor memo announcing she plans to introduce legislation to eliminate the ability of citizens, local governments and anyone else to appeal permits issued by DEP for natural gas pipelines and related facilities to the Environmental Hearing Board. On May 16, Sen. One case Sen.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Brazil’s new president reiterates pledge to protect the Amazon and enact climate policy. The government of Manitoba, Canada , releases a new water strategy that focuses on reducing demand. Increase in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the 2019-2022 period compared to the three previous years. On the Radar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Since then, however, the gas industry—much like the oil industry—has cribbed heavily from the tobacco industry’s playbook to block government regulation by manufacturing doubt about the reality and seriousness of its “NOx problem.” There is no EPA standard for indoor air.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2023

Worse yet, our research suggests that when federal science is sidelined, underserved communities —Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), low-income, and rural communities—frequently face the brunt of the harms in the form of weak, ineffective, or undermined health, safety, and environmental protections.

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Columbia Climate Law

APRIL 24, 2020

Today, the Sabin Center filed an amicus brief on behalf of local governments in support of state and environmental petitioners in American Lung Association v. EPA , the lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s repeal of the Clean Power Plan and the dangerously weak replacement rule.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Given the critical role that federal scientists play to inform government decisions that impact the health and safety of all residents’ lives, we will all benefit as our federal agencies step up their efforts further to build a stronger and more diverse STEM workforce. The results are very stark, as you can see below (Figure 1).

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, ENVIRONMENT HAMILTON, STOP SPRAWL HAMONT. Decision will be a template for reconciling environmental protection with new “market based” planning rules . Hamilton City Council declared a Climate Emergency in 2019. Hamilton, Ont.

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Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2021

One key indicator is a question that asks people how they would choose between environmental protection and the economic growth. As in 2008, about 20% of the population in 2019 were skeptics, while the remainder were either concerned or had mixed views.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The $200 million plan — with half of the funds coming from the states and half from the federal government — will pay farmers to fallow cropland and compensate tribes for leaving water in the reservoir. Percent : Decline, from 2019 to 2020, in the amount of water withdrawn from rivers, lakes, and oceans by U.S. News Briefs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Yesterday evening, I provided testimony to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at a public hearing on the proposed rule on the Risk Management Program (RMP). Government Accountability Office earlier this year had similar findings. A report published by the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Since the death of Charles Koch’s brother David in 2019, the Charles Koch Foundation has continued to finance this disinformation campaign, giving more than $17 million to 23 groups in 2019 and 2020 , pushing the Koch grand total north of $162 million. million on some 70 denier groups from 1998 through 2020. million and Chevron’s $39.47

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

The plan in some ways is standard government boilerplate: collaboration, partnerships, data, whole-of-government approach. Environmental Protection Agency is in the process of reinstituting a definition of protected waters that existed before a series of rulemakings that began in the Obama administration.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The recommendations also relate to government aid, including technical and financial assistance to low-income communities and utilities. percent of disposable income on water and sewer in 2019, up from 10.9 Environmental Protection Agency when utilities assess the cost of controlling sewage pollution.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 9, 2022

The British government orders water companies to create contingency plans in the case of water shortages. “We billion gallons) of water from state government as part of a massive water infrastructure project. Indigenous groups across the region have spent lifetimes battling state governments for water allocations in Australia.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That time period includes unusually high crop losses in the Midwest due to drought in 2012 and flooding in 2019. The report was published by the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research organization. Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to review national drinking water standards to consider whether updates are needed.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – This week, the federal government is defending its Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (formerly Bill C-69) at the Supreme Court of Canada. Provincial and federal governments share the legal authority to protect the environment and conserve nature.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

On Friday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued long-awaited regulations to strengthen the Risk Management Program (RMP). The new rule restores critical disaster planning and prevention protections under the program after it was gutted in 2019 under the Trump administration.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Just as with climate change, local, state, provincial, and national governments in Canada and the United States have collaborated with science agencies, universities, and non-profit groups to develop effective responses, especially for Lake Erie. What have all the spending and committee meetings wrought? In 2009, the U.S. Grand Lake St.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2023

A more heavy-handed approach taken by some governments is to ban winter spreading altogether to try and enforce full compliance within the farming community. What protections exist in Ontario to protect the Great Lakes from agricultural runoff and nutrient pollution? Satellite photo by NOAA, 2019 What more needs to be done?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

The state constitution’s Environmental Rights Amendment is not a gratuitous statement. Rather, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has found, the amendment is an invaluable and enforceable provision that empowers the state government to protect all Pennsylvanians’ right to clean air, water and more.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Along with sister NGO Oceana — and represented in court by Ecojustice — we’ll be there to represent the public interest in a case that is pitting some of the world’s biggest plastic producers against the Canadian government. . A crow holds a plastic lid in its mouth. Meanwhile, the facts are piling up against them.

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MARCH 29, 2023

By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

The state constitution’s Environmental Rights Amendment is not a gratuitous statement. Rather, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has found, the amendment is an invaluable and enforceable provision that empowers the state government to protect all Pennsylvanians’ right to clean air, water and more.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stripping federal protections from countless wetlands and leaving these critical ecosystems exposed to devastating pollution and other damage from agriculture and other industries. In 2019, under the Trump administration, the EPA and the Army repealed the Obama-era definition of WOTUS.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

The state issued its first water quality standards for chloride in 2019. Not written with infrastructure in mind, the standards are intended to protect fish, insects, and other freshwater species. Mobility, cost, and environmental protection. Another disadvantage in Michigan relates to the structure of local governments.

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