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Lake Erie’s Failed Algae Strategy Hurts Poor Communities the Most

Circle of Blue

According to a survey of public water systems by the Ohio EPA, obtained by the Alliance for the Great Lakes, the systems in the algae-afflicted West Lake Erie Basin have spent an average of $14 million on facility upgrades to deal with the blooms. T his group now spends more than a quarter of their income on their water bill alone.

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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. May 1, 2020).

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 The bill includes the Senate’s drinking water infrastructure reauthorization bill ( S. Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. billion for coastal mapping, resilience and related projects. or WOTUS. “In

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

Odds and ends: EPA says it will reconsider a 2020 Trump regulation known as the Major MACT to Area, or MM2A, rule. John Sarbanes (D-MD) introduced the Chesapeake Bay Science, Education and Ecosystem Enhancement (SEEE) Act ( S. Julia Brownley (D-CA) reintroduced the Marine Mammal Climate Change Protection Act ( H.R. 21, 2020 ).

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Policy News: May 28, 2021

ESA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Rural STEM Education Research Act ( H.R. House in September 2020. The MSI STEM Achievement Act ( H.R. The Trump administration reassigned Kuperberg to the Energy Department in November 2020, shortly after Trump lost re-election. billion for NOAA, a $1.4

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