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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

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. May 1, 2020). In a split decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the U.S.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

In an unpublished judgment, the court rejected the petitioners’ other NEPA arguments regarding project design and capacity and cumulative ozone impacts. Minnesota Court Affirmed Water Quality Certification for Line 3 Replacement Project. CDV-2020-307 (Mont. Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v. 20-1045 (D.C.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. Odds and ends: EPA says it will reconsider a 2020 Trump regulation known as the Major MACT to Area, or MM2A, rule. 21, 2020 ). Agency Does the Opposite – The New York Times.

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Policy News: May 17, 2021

ESA

Tai is scheduled to hold a trilateral meeting next week with Canadian Trade Minister Mary Ng and Mexican Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier to discuss implementation of the USMCA, which went into force on July 1, 2020. Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency released its Climate Change Indicators report for the first time since 2016.

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Policy News: May 28, 2021

ESA

Environmental Protection Agency. This includes $936 million for a new Accelerating Environmental and Economic Justice initiative. The Rural STEM Education Research Act ( H.R. House in September 2020. The MSI STEM Achievement Act ( H.R. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. billion for NOAA, a $1.4

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